Exam marks protest
Students and lecturers at the University of East Anglia's school of modern languages and European studies this week protested about the downgrading of marks awarded to more than 300 students for...
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Britannia tries to rule the brain waves
Britain is making renewed efforts to sell its further and higher education "products" in up to 30 expanding export markets where competition is fierce. The Department of Trade and Industry and the...
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'No confidence' catches on
Further education lecturers held strikes across the country this week in the contracts dispute which has contributed to 70 separate votes of no confidence in management at colleges since September....
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Kenya condemned for attacking critics
A Kenyan academic suspended for comments made at a conference in South Africa has won support from an international meeting of university teacher associations. Delegates at the International...
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Who chopped down the cherry tree?
Allan Winkler describes the furore unleashed when the US tried to establish guidelines for teaching history. Teaching history in America these days is not for the faint-hearted. Recently released...
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Amazed by muscular fleas
Aisling Irwin reports on a project that aims to capture on film the obsessive wonder of scientists for the natural world. Can you remember when, as a child, you were filled with wonder at the world?...
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A child of our time
Julian Philips surveys the life of English composer, pacifist and nonagenarian writer of rap, Sir Michael Tippett. Earlier this year, one of Britain's most remarkable composers celebrated his...
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The male address
John Davies explores the inner precincts of a club that likes to say no to women, the Oxford and Cambridge. What is going on behind the neo-classical facade of 71 Pall Mall, London SW1, that has...
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Don's Diary
FRIDAY to SATURDAY. A seat just in front of 14 rows of dedicated smokers is preparation for the air in Mexico City where we arrive in time for the weekend diaspora. The eight kilometres to the hotel...
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Vitamin tests for Los Angeles gangs
Hans Eysenck seems better at creating an ad hominem argument than at recognising one (É«ºÐÖ±²¥S, March 3). There was nothing ad hominem in my description of the reductionist paradigm within which research...
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The Don Juans
'I was worried it would affect my degree';Claire Sanders tells of her experiences at the hands of a lecherous tutor. It was over ten years ago that one of my supervisors at Cambridge University...
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The Don Juans
Are academics who have affairs with students guilty of an abuse of power? Pam Carter and Tony Jeffs assess whether institutions should curb such relationships. Should university staff enter into...
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All bingo, Barbie and Barthes?
We are all amateur students of culture. It is a subject, like politics, for which we have been revising for most of our lives. We are born into it, we help make it and it, in turn, helps make us. It...
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All bingo, Barbie and Barthes?
Cultural studies has failed, Colin MacCabe tells John Davies. Cultural studies has failed. Or so Colin MacCabe, head of research and education at the British Film Institute claims. He has identified...
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On oriental wisdom
Edward Said's Orientalism, and Culture and Imperialism have had a far better press than they deserve. While both suffer from serious methodological and conceptual shortcomings, in Orientalism Said is...