Short on courage
Two aspects of your report on alleged financial problems at the Royal Institution dismayed me ("Lottery cash fears put pressure on Greenfield", October 1). First was the use of anonymous informants....
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No U-turn in Wales
I am disappointed that following misinterpretation by your paper ("Welsh row as assembly denies top-ups U-turn") I must reiterate that there has been no policy change regarding arrangements for...
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Union recognition
The report on the Association of University Teacher's study of The Unequal Academy (October 1) overlooked a vital aspect of the casualisation of higher education. It hardly touched on the plight of...
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Comic improvements
I have become an avid reader of The Times Higher since the bold, creative move to adopt a more satirical tone on the features pages. In particular, I have turned to the articles attributed to Frank...
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Bottoms up
A*? A**? A****? Time to reverse the alphabetical system and have Z as the highest grade. At least there will be a couple of years' breathing space before we need to start adding stars again... Amanda...
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Reduction technique
It has been recognised for a long time that the brevity of the English first degree was possible only because of the early specialisation in English schools, in contrast with the four-year Scottish...
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Myopic attitudes
I run a small company that produces documentation for visually impaired people. Last year, we were approached by one of the oldest universities in the country - it had a visually impaired student but...
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Freedom on the front line... for now
To criticise the Sudanese regime is to risk arrest, torture and even death. However, reports Chris Bunting, academics are still able to speak their minds in the classroom. On September 10, Shamsuldin...
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Is the party of protest any closer to power?
Post Hartlepool, the Liberal Democrats may be feeling on the up. But Don MacIver urges caution. After a run of by-election successes and an improved position in the opinion polls, the Liberal...
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Place for books, bytes and e-sites
Gone are the days when the library was just for quiet study. Anna Fazackerley looks at the revolution taking place at the British Library and in UK universities. Tradition has it that a librarian...
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Adapt to survive the next chapter
Picture this scenario. You head off to your university library for an intensive day wading through a stack of journals or books relevant to your research; yet when you arrive you discover not the...
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The price of pro$perity is often war
Why do economies collapse? Harold James notes that global conflict can cause major economic slumps - but that could change as warfare grows cheaper. Below, Simon Targett ponders lessons from the...
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Fading powers and rising stars
"It's the economy, stupid!" This sentence, scribbled on the notice board in Bill Clinton's campaign office, became the soundbite of the 1992 US presidential election. It described the view that the...
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The paradigms of people power
The global anticapitalist movement links millions of ordinary people worldwide and has no historical precedent. So why are so few anthropologists involved? asks Nancy Lindisfarne. The third European...
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GALILEO: the Commission proposes the transition to the deployment and operational phases
Brussels, 6 October 2004 The European Commission today adopted a communication on moving to the deployment and operational phases of the European satellite radionavigation system. On the basis of the...