Hardly a week goes by without an advertisement in The Times Educational Supplement offering a revolution in education. For the teacher, maybe it is a computer device that will free…
Offices â and especially offices belonging to trendy tech companies â increasingly aspire to be homes-away-from-home. It all started innocuously enough. A ping-pong table would appear in the old photocopier…
In days gone by, on the Isle of Skye, the lands were mostly shared between MacLeods and MacDonalds; Gaelic was the language of all work and social life; and the…
‘Madam Scotia, Madame Scrap’ by Helene Witcher (Islands Book Trust) Helene Witcher’s portrait of her aunt, Heloise Russel-Fergusson (1896 â 1970), is not only the story of a musical pioneer…
Even in these troubling times, spare a thought for Jenny Gilruth MSP, appointed Transport Minister in January and, since 1 April, given ultimate responsibility for the management of a railway…
Not liking the water is one thing. Poisoning the well for everyone else is quite another. This seems to be the UK Government’s approach post-Brexit to the Erasmus programme, which…
Christmas simply wouldn’t be Christmas without them. They light up our homes and bring so much joy to everyone. The trouble is that, within a few weeks or months, the…
The best tools for predicting the location of the next medical breakthrough are a blindfold, a few pins and a map. Plenty of innovations do emanate from elite hospitals and…
A top-secret mission in Scotland 400 years ago to prevent the assassination of King James isn’t what you would readily associate with the downfall of Boris Johnson. But that incident…
As the festival season comes to a close, Edinburgh seems to go into a state of cultural mourning and repose. The imposing wooden doors of Summerhall were closed for a…