Letter: Bourdieu the brave 1
Before Pierre Bourdieu is safely interred in the sepulchre of academia ("France still feels the force of his habitus", THES , February 8), it is worth remembering his later active involvement in the...
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Letter: Bourdieu the brave 2
Fred Inglis argues that Pierre Bourdieu has left an impressive legacy of the kind that just does not happen in Britain. If Inglis had not written such a grumpy account of the life of Raymond Williams...
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Letter: Researchers routed 1
With the Higher Education Funding Council for England presiding over the biggest shift of resources in its history to the largest, richest universities, the role of the research councils needs...
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Letter: Researchers routed 2
Hefce's betrayal of grade-3 departments has the effect of giving about £60 million more to the old university sector and taking £30 million away from the new. This is irrational. New universities use...
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Letter: Researchers routed 3
Richard Green adds further tongue-in-cheek RAE categories to Laurie Taylor's list of "research-inactive" staff. But there is a serious point. The arbitrary lower limit of four publications is...
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Letter: Researchers routed 4
The debate over the 2001 research assessment exercise consists only of minor quibbles, while larger and important weaknesses of the exercise - itself an example of flawed research - are no longer...
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Letter: Logic and lesbians 1
Sylvia Pankhurst's unquestionable bravery may well cancel out her demerits and qualify her for a statue somewhere. But if the statue is seen as a reward for getting votes for women, Mary Davis (...
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Letter: Logic and lesbians 2
The points that Mary Davis makes in her letter are well taken. But the question of "who cares" whether some of the women campaigning for the vote were lesbians cannot be left unanswered. Lesbians...
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Letter: Logic and lesbians 3
The stigmatisation of lesbianism is perpetuated in the dispute between Martin Pugh and June Purvis ("Lesbian fracas splits scholars", THES , January 25). Writers who are anti-feminist or critical of...
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Letter: Union grievances
The debate regarding possible undemocratic election procedures at the Association of University Teachers ("AUT rivals reveal priorities", THES , January 11) prompts questions such as why does the...
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Letter: Monetary mistake
To imply that large increases in the remuneration paid to vice-chancellors in their final year of service will generate a similarly large increase in their prospective pensions (Leader, THES ,...
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What it means to be a 'citizen'
As the increased threat of terrorism fuels the debate over the concept of 'citizenship' and its role in society, Adrian Mourby ponders whether a person can become 'British'. The government's...
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The generation of genius
The death last week of molecular biologist and Nobel laureate Max Perutz reminds us, writes Michael Ruse, that a chapter in the history of science is nearing its end The death last week of Max Perutz...
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Private face of a public funder
Researcher, author, television personality, vice-chancellor and policy-maker - Howard Newby has done it all. The head of Hefce talks to Pat Leon about a life promoting the cause of higher education...
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A troubled tale of talent, fame and misfortune
Liverpool's 'fame' school has often made the headlines for the wrong reasons, but in a new book, founder Mark Featherstone-Witty argues that, controversies aside, he is happy to have created '...