Snakes, masks and dramatics
A History of Theatre in Africa
A History of Theatre in Africa
Inside the Royal Shakespeare Company
Shakespeare
This week's competition, in which you must identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a pamphlet that helped to provoke a revolution: "Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages...
cc. All Staff@popp.a... I hope that you are refreshed by the summer break and are preparing for this university's strategic objectives in the next academic year. To further such implementation, I am...
There is no denying the need for universities to calculate the full cost of their research; other organisations do it as a matter of course and the underpricing of contracts has long been recognised...
This week's concerns over claims made by the European University of Lefke, in Northern Cyprus, represent the latest of a long list of cautionary tales about the dangers of transnational collaboration...
I was more than a little irritated to see the fatuous opinions of Alan Smithers on psychology, art and design and business studies below the headline "Expert attacks 'fuzzy' subjects" (August 20). I...
Alan Smithers attacks so-called fuzzy subjects and blames their popularity for damaging traditional subjects such as chemistry and French. The reality is that the range of subjects at A level has...
I've been puzzled by the responses to your Laura Spence interview. Some have bordered on the abusive. Your most recent correspondent (Letters, August 20) wrote of the "total commitment of his Oxford...
In spite of Sir Peter Lampl's references to the "many excellent new universities" and their "many fine courses" (Soapbox, August 20), thereis no escaping the fact that he is stuck in a rut of...
Sir Peter Lampl is concerned that 3,000 pupils from independent schools are entering leading universities who would not be there if higher-achieving state-school pupils were taking up their fair...
So Cambridge University has developed a "thinking-skills test" for students and found that it predicts their performance in first-year examinations ("Entry test tackles class bias", August 13). The...
Your report on the Manchester Museum seems to suggest that the choice for university museums lies between intellectual dinosaurs and the new public management ("The culling of the dinosaurs", August...
Frank Furedi's comments on Sunderland University's policy on plagiarism ("Plagiarism edict slated", August 20) come as no surprise in the light of his opinion piece of August 6. Although social...