Survey asks if science voice is being heard
Some 1,600 researchers will be asked for their views on communicating their work and its implications to the general public and policy-makers. The survey will be conducted by MORI on behalf of the...
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More graduates in arrears
The number of graduates in arrears with student loan repayments has increased by more than two-and-a-half times in 18 months. The Student Loans Company figures show that as of August 31, 167,716...
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Sporting replays
The article "A double first for brains and brawn" (THES, October 22) referred to Crewe & Alsager offering sport science degrees to professional footballers. This technically is incorrect. The...
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Clear title track
Your front-page article ("Unfair rules mar colleges' title goals", THES, October 22) reports claims that the Department for Education and Employment's policy on use of "university college" titles is...
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A-level fog obscures everyone
John Dunford's otherwise excellent article ("It's not too early to show hand in admissions game", THES, October 15) is rather one-sided in putting on universities all the blame for delays in...
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A-level fog obscures everyone
The mathematics department at Imperial College recently held a teachers' workshop on the new A levels. The aim was to gain some idea of the effect of the changes on teaching in schools so we could...
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Checklist for tutors
The article "Comfort in that personal touch" (THES, October 15) shows that staff care about their tutees but does little to clarify the nature of the tutor/tutee relationship. Tutors might do more...
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Practise plurality
In her response to my review of Critique of Postcolonial Reason ("Muffling the voice of the Other", THES, August 6), Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Letters, October 15) asks if I found this sentence...
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Errors of intervention
Alan Ryan makes two crucial mistakes about the supposed "weakness of the libertarian case" ("Counting the cost of feeling free", THES, October 22). First, he asserts that "property rights require...
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The point of pain
In his review of E. M. Macphail's The Evolution of Consciousness ("The pleasure principle and beyond", THES, October 15), Anthony Freeman brings out the point that physicalist views have great...
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CAT-astrophe
The point made in your recent editorial ("Lifelong learning needs a qualification framework", THES, October 22) about a national credit accumulation and transfer system being an "essential aspect of...
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Who celebrates excellence
The World Health Organisation has designated three African universities centres of excellence for the training of postgraduate students in communicable disease epidemiology, writes Tunde Fatunde....
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The right climate for US change?
The Impact of Climate Change on the United States Economy
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Space-age Odysseus
Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!
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Who unveiled the scripts' tease?
The Story of Decipherment