May 2006
March 2006
Gender pay gap: what's it worth?
Girls may well opt for arts degrees over engineering, but that's not because nobody has told them that engineers earn more than academics - it's because the 'male' professions have fallen out of favour even among men.
February 2006
Educators face blowback for protesting Iraq war
Just over three years ago, as the nation readied for war with Iraq, elementary school teacher Deb Mayer stood in front of her class and uttered the word that would get her blacklisted from her profession - 'Peace'
May 2005
Immigration isn't the issue: Brendan O'Neill
Among the political class, ‘the immigration issue’ has become code for their own fear and loathing of the white working class.
March 2005
Kevin Meyers: At last the light is shone on the IRA
No event in Northern Ireland in recent years has distilled the abominable and corrupted reality of life under the peace process as the murder of Robert McCartney. Half beaten to death, one eye gouged out, his throat cut, and then gutted like a fish...
Making learning uncool: The establishment disses education as much as hip-hop ‘playas’.
It wasn't Jay-Z who grabbed headlines by declaring that 'learning history is a bit dodgy'. That was the former education secretary, Charles Clarke.
February 2005
The new Chief Inquisitor on campus
From ethics committees to ‘learning outcomes’, the threat to academic freedom comes from within the university as much as from without. By Frank Ferudi
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