Morality game with no rules
The Breaking of Nations - The Iraq War - Blair's Wars
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Illusory insights
Intuition
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Hitler's hymn to Jesus
The Holy Reich
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Still chewing on live caterpillars
A Devil's Chaplain
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from an American author's first and only novel: "When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm...
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Testing times for tasty morsels
In the Blink of an Eye
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Laurie Taylor Column
From : The Office of the Vice-Chancellor To : Dr Piercemuller Subject: Job Evaluation Dear Dr Piercemuller, As you may know, this university has recently adopted a new system of job grading known as...
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Laurie Taylor Column
From : The Office of the Vice-Chancellor To : Dr Piercemuller Subject: Job Evaluation Dear Dr Piercemuller, As you may know, this university has recently adopted a new system of job grading known as...
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Leader: Compromise key to safe passage of education bill
The Queen made it all sound so simple: upfront fees will be abolished, more young people will be able to benefit from higher education and universities will be placed on a sound financial footing....
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Leader: Compromise key to safe passage of education bill
The Queen made it all sound so simple: upfront fees will be abolished, more young people will be able to benefit from higher education and universities will be placed on a sound financial footing....
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2nd division will end in own goal
Government proposals to change the rules governing the granting of degree-awarding powers and university titles, if implemented, will produce a second division of universities in England and Wales,...
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Capital idea? 1
The human-capital contracts advocated by Miguel Palacios (Soapbox, THES , November 21) offer distinct advantages over student loans. Most notable among these are the ability for repayments to...
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Capital idea? 2
Miguel Palacios argues that governments cannot fund higher education from tax alone. His solution is for the private sector to lend the money to graduates, who would pay back a percentage of their...
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Look into the losses
Members of the University Superannuation Scheme (Letters, THES , November 14, 21) will have read in their annual report that the fund has lost some Pounds 30,000 per member since 2000. That's £6...
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Inflexible threat
Jocelyn Prudence seems to have abandoned her claim that the Association of University Teachers turned down a pay offer of 20 per cent (Letters, THES , November 14). She proceeds, however, to spin...