Banglatown dream becomes real
A £16 million cultural centre in Tower Hamlets looks set to energise its diverse community and widen access to further education where other initiatives have failed, says Sara Wajid. "City boys,...
A £16 million cultural centre in Tower Hamlets looks set to energise its diverse community and widen access to further education where other initiatives have failed, says Sara Wajid. "City boys,...
Art workshops are giving young people from East London estates a taste of further education. But there is still a chasm to cross, says Linden West. Gina lives with her small child. Still only a...
The British Design & Art Direction Student Awards could provide the winner with a ticket to a coveted design job and could help an institution gain recognition, reports Helen Hague. It's a...
Two initiatives in Northern Ireland, no stranger to violence, are seeking new ways to look at global conflicts and peacemaking. An Ulster-based unit is informing policy on conflicts from Burnley to...
Two initiatives in Northern Ireland, no stranger to violence, are seeking new ways to look at global conflicts and peacemaking. Zionists negotiate with Islamic terrorists while the Foreign Office...
The 2002 National Teaching Fellowship awards will be presented on July 9. Below, two of the winners discuss their changing roles as higher education moves towards mass participation. I remember a...
The 2002 National Teaching Fellowship awards will be presented on July 9. Below, two of the winners discuss their changing roles as higher education moves towards mass participation. Airline pilots...
For years, US leaders have attached themselves to intellectuals. The results have been sometimes rewarding, more often infuriating, says Tevi Troy. If intellectuals can learn one lesson from the past...
Management is a science, argues Sherman Roberts, and the business leaders of the future should take time to master it. Martin Ince reports. Anyone who wants to tempt 100 of Europe's top movers and...
Joyce Malcolms says that "between 1890 and 1892, there were only three handgun homicides in a population of 30 million" (Why I..., THES , June 21). Wasn't the late-Victorian weapon of choice a...
In your article on the British Academy (Features, THES , June 28), Sir Keith Thomas follows Blackadder in citing Hull as the obvious antithesis to Oxbridge in matters of intellectual distinction. He...
In his review of Meghnad Desai's Marx's Revenge (Books, THES , June 28), John Driffill writes: "Desai reminds us that contrary to the belief that became firmly established in the 1880s and 1890s...
Margaret Hodge lambasts university "elitism" because she wants "an intellectual elite not a social elite" ("You are all too elitist, says Hodge", THES , June 28). So she wants elitism then. But does...
Margaret Hodge's desire that we concentrate on intellectual achievement, not social stratification, is to be applauded. But she should recognise the crucial role of new universities, university...
Universities were dismayed to be branded "institutionally elitist", catering for the middle classes and not for people from low-income backgrounds. Nothing could be further from the truth. Many have...