Letter: Ancestral confusion
Simon Ditchfield's analysis of recruitment trends in history was interesting ("It pays to help the public to meet the ancestors", THES , April 20), but he is wrong about the history pedigree of the...
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Letter: Missing targets (1)
I was pleased to read in Lionel Kochan's review of The Journal of Holocaust Education ("Holocaust engulfs the Jews' story", THES , April 20), an acknowledgement of the critical engagement this...
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Letter: Missing targets (2)
Kathy Chater seems to want the Family and Community History to be a journal providing a context for her and her pupils' genealogical interests in individual ancestors ("Abstracted ancestors", Books,...
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Letter: Private grillings (1)
There is no perfect method of examining a PhD thesis and the thesis's author and I appreciate that the Swedish system advocated by David Stephens has many merits (Why I..., THES , April 20). His use...
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Letter: Private grillings (2)
It was reported that "there are no systematic training schemes for supervisors outside a handful of isolated and unconnected skills workshops" ("New PhD to attract overseas students", THES , April 13...
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Letter: 'Not really dead'
The 19th century could be a time of horror to an informed person ("Plight of the living dead", THES, April 20). Hans Christian Andersen, for example, lived in constant fear of airborne diseases that...
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Letter: Heated facts
Mike Hulme is right to stress that responsibility for implementing the Kyoto protocol falls to each and every one of us (Letters, THES , April 20). Governments and their policies, however, shape the...
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Letter: Imperial clarity (1)
Imperial College has no intention of charging students fees in addition to those levied by government ("Doctor quits Imperial over fees", THES , April 20). The charging of top-up fees is illegal. We...
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Letter: Imperial clarity (2)
You made a lively piece out of Imperial College's application for degree-awarding powers ("Imperial bids for degrees", THES , April 20) but the reality is more prosaic. It is University of London...
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Letter: Cull of languages lacked logic
You quote a spokesman of the Higher Education Funding Council for England as doubting that universities would agree to regional planning of subject provision because they were autonomous ("Lecturers...
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Leader: Missing jam for doughnut-style university world
Abolishing tenure was supposed to make British universities more likely to give people permanent jobs because it would be easier to make staff redundant in hard times. It did not work out that way....
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Net payoff is in parking
Universities that are investing in distance education will eventually earn back funds through such unrelated areas as decreased traffic congestion and freed-up classroom space, a Canadian researcher...
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work originally entitled Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World : "My father had a small...
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New men making a mark in an old world
Persia and the West
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Market mucks up mom and dad
Howard Glennerster finds working families are losing out in the US. Those familiar with Theda Scokpol's early writing will remember her as a brilliant social historian of America's early welfare...