Tongues in a well
Spoken Here
Search
-
-
Pollyanna glosses over world's savage reality
Violence and Democracy
-
Wounds of those who clean up after evil
Another Day in Paradise
-
Cure for the ills of Islam lies with the US?
Islam and its Discontents
-
Oxymoronic efforts to put up imperial borders
The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of US Culture
-
Porridge that leaves a sour taste
Prisongate
-
Laurie Taylor Column
Vice-chancellor, are you free to take a call from Professor Jenks? Jenks, Mrs Dilworth? Since when did we have a professor called Jenks? Since last Thursday. He was one of the successful external...
-
Leader: Colleges need cash fillip
Further and adult education are two parts of the public service that are used to playing second fiddle (or worse) when national budgets are set. But both are crucial to the economic and social health...
-
Leader: Better the RAE devil we know?
The research assessment exercise costs the higher education system millions of pounds and untold hours of effort, as well as causing unnecessary upheaval. Preparations for 2008 may be too far...
-
Why authors won't be Wellcome
Publishers' scepticism about the claims of the open-access campaigners ("Everyone's a winner", May 7) is easily caricatured as self-interest. But it goes deeper. The Wellcome Trust's estimate of...
-
Class equality
As the principal author of the new government social class schema, I take exception to the cavalier criticisms of it by Richard Austen-Baker and Christopher Knight (Letters, May 7 and May 14). The...
-
Past impressions
I was surprised to read Lord Triesman's claim that his main aim as a student activist in 1968 was to get Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, elected president of the National Union of Students ("My...
-
Marked disparities
Your article about the university marking scheme ("Structure is archaic, confused. See me!!", May 14) is symptomatic of a more serious problem - the unprofessional approach that characterises our...
-
Fellow non-traveller
I would like to correct an error in last week's Times Higher front-page article ("Dollars lure scientists Down Under", May 14), which is causing me some inconvenience - and not just because of the...
-
Let's be rational
Your article (May 14 ) stated that I "misleadingly" claimed to be a student of Colin Blakemore's. He additionally accuses me of having "fuelled the campaign" against him and, in his letter (May 14),...