The number of university students using electronic devices to cheat in exams has gone up by more than a third in the past four years, new figures show. Continue reading Universities suffer surge in hi‑tech cheating
Author: Bertha Elliott
International Journalism Festival — the winning essay
Hundreds of students from across Europe participated in Amazon’s International Journalism Festival essay contest, which challenged them to write about journalism in the digital era. Continue reading International Journalism Festival — the winning essay
‘Invest in good journalism to fight fake news’
Fake news is a big challenge but there in no viable way of legislating to prevent it, Denis Naughten has said. Continue reading ‘Invest in good journalism to fight fake news’
Writers’ retreat
For some it is curling up on the sofa or sitting at the dining room table, for others it is a purpose-designed home office, kitted out with furniture from companies like office monster, that gets the creative juices flowing. Four Irish authors tell Eithne Dunne about their ideal workspace Continue reading Writers’ retreat
Writers’ block
Do all writers make bad fathers, as John Banville asserted controversially last week? John Burns investigates Continue reading Writers’ block
At the coalface: crafts make the case for a place in a modern industrial world
In the unlikely setting of an industrial estate on the south coast, framed by a frozen foods supplier and a ground maintenance company, is Britain’s biggest art retailer. Behind large shuttered garage doors, King & McGaw produces prints and frames for leading museums, John Lewis and its own retail customers. Continue reading At the coalface: crafts make the case for a place in a modern industrial world
Arts giants back bid for city creative hub
Former directors of the Edinburgh International Festival and the Fringe have thrown their weight behind a plan to convert an Edinburgh children’s hospital into an arts community. Continue reading Arts giants back bid for city creative hub
The five rules of buying art
One of the big advantages of being an art critic is that you never have to think about presents. I don’t mean we never give any – art critics may be savage, ruthless and cruel, but we’re not ogres! No. We give presents. But we don’t have to think about what to give because we always give the same thing. Art. Continue reading The five rules of buying art
A prayer for art history
Our critic, the son of a cleaner and a milkmaid, says the claim that art history is only for toffs is rubbish. Civilisation cannot be understood without it, so scrapping the subject at A-level is a swipe at universal values