Death mirrors art
Jacques Derrida's death confirms his analysis. His text event was unintended by its author and only its readers can decipher its meaning. I. Morgan Lincoln
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Ill will afflicts NHSU 1
Contrary to popular myth, the raison d'être of the National Health Service University was not to create a new new university, it was to widen learning opportunities in the UK's biggest workplace for...
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Ill will afflicts NHSU 2
Your account of reaction to the Wells Review of the NHSU filled me with dismay. The negative tone, principally of higher education representatives, is in marked contrast to the enthusiastic support...
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End abuse of casuals
Graham Sharp (Letters, October 8) says it's time the unions recognised the plight of hourly paid lecturers who develop very large parts of the teaching load in many universities. He is right, and we...
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Some Irish news
In your coverage of Irish higher education, you appear to prefer tittle-tattle to significant news events. On September 24 the first meeting took place in Dublin between Universities UK and...
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Evidence ignored
Paul Ramsden (Opinion, October 1) correctly advocates the use of evidence to back up conclusions and then contradicts his own advice - claiming without evidence that the National Student Survey did...
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Has postmodernism killed social science? 1
Do postmodernism and its related ideas provide new and useful insights? Well, if the proof of the pudding is in the eating, Max Steuer finds that they leave him with a case of indigestion There are...
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A dissident voice that was quieted by self-interest
Franco's campaign to silence opposition in Spain had surprising support - from a Nobel laureate who was himself a dissident. Jason Garner meets the man who tracked the twists and turns There has been...
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Has postmodernism killed social science? 2
Geographer Edward Soja has found postmodernism a powerful critique that has advanced his subject. He tells Huw Richards about the 'third possibilities' that traditional theories missed. Edward Soja...
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Visions and virgins, yes. Virtue, no
Our contest to write an opening chapter for a comic novel about a 21st-century vice-chancellor showed satire is alive on campus. Harriet Swain relates the deliberations of the judges, while below is...
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Big Don's dream of soccerdemia
Our contest to write an opening chapter for a comic novel about a 21st-century vice-chancellor showed satire is alive on campus. Harriet Swain relates the deliberations of the judges, while below is...
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Dragon spirit alive in steel and stone
With Cardiff about to unveil a distinctly Welsh landmark building, Adrian Mourby ponders how architecture can encapsulate a country's identity Can national identity be expressed through architecture...
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Today's news
Middlesex abolishes exams for first-years Middlesex University has abandoned exams for first-year degree students in what critics claim is an unprecedented move to make it easier for students to pass...
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Statement on living modified organisms by Secretariat of Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) at WTO
Geneva, 13 October 2004 Statement by the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) at the Committee on Trade and Environment, Special Session of 12-13 October 2004. Paragraph 31 (i...
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EURid signs contract with European Commission to Operate the .eu registry
Brussels, 12 Oct 2004 At a small signing ceremony in Brussels today, Fabio Colasanti, the Director General of the European Commission's Information Society DG, joined with EURid board members: Pierre...