Is your career in the can?
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...
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However bloody it gets, you must talk
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...
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Hostage will die in one hour. Your move
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...
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A little guidance goes a long way
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...
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Change is not always as good as a rest
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...
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All the presidents' brains
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...
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In a fast-moving world, find time to think
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...
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Chaucer meets NYPD
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...
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Hull of a surprise?
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...
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Marx in disguise
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...
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Hodge's elitism dig is a bit rich (1)
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...
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Hodge's elitism dig is a bit rich (2)
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...
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Hodge's elitism dig is a bit rich (3)
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...
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Hodge's elitism dig is a bit rich (4)
It is a bit rich for Margaret Hodge to blame universities for the fact that students from low-income families find campus life difficult: it was Tony Blair's first government that abolished...
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Hodge's elitism dig is a bit rich (5)
Intelligence is normally distributed among the population regardless of social group. Education - the cultivation of that intelligence - has a skewed distribution because richer people buy it....