Elitism alive and well
Reports of the death of elitism in higher education are grossly exaggerated ('Populist Labour swells HE ranks', THES, October 1). Government targets for widening participation are to be welcomed....
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What is a don for?
Your headline "Endangered species: why dons must adapt or die" (THES, October 15) does not exaggerate the significance for many academics of what is happening to universities today. However, your...
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Our service is not soundbites
Some years ago, while working at the University of Manchester, I was having a drink in a pub in the then notorious Hulme district of the city when I fell into conversation with a man who asked me...
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Our service is not soundbites
Charles Leadbeater is right that academics need to be responsive to the larger socio-political environment in which they play an increasing role. But that does not mean that academics must simply...
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Our service is not soundbites
Charles Leadbeater's analysis has a ring of truth in some areas, particularly the working conditions of academics. As is so often the case, he fails to recognise that the advent of devolution is...
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Mind games
Steven Pinker, as always, makes some bold predictions ("Uniting the branches of knowledge", THES, October 8). "The fundamental division," he writes, "between the humanities and sciences may become as...
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A man out of time
You accompany the review of John Cornwell's Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII ("A proof of papal fallibility", THES, October 15) with a photograph and caption taken from the book...
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Cautionary advice
Two articles have suggested that higher education institutions are failing to provide an early indication of admissions policies in respect of the new 16-19 curriculum ("Schools ask for a clearer...
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Crime and punishment in Middle England
The grip of the hang 'em, flog 'em brigade on the twitching net curtains of Middle England is loosening. Although it may never have been so tight in the first place, according to research by a team...
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Age-old proof
May I add a comment in support of Sir David Weatherall's review of James Le Fanu's Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine ("Pasteur is good, but don't forget pastor too", THES, October 8)? In 25...
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A Cambodian mother waits to see a doctor
(Photograph) - A Cambodian mother waits to see a doctor, May 1998, at a refugee camp near Huay Samran, Thailand. Fighting between Cambodian forces seeking to wipe out the last remaining stronghold of...
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Wellcome pioneers
In some regions, a little funding can make a big difference. Julia Hinde reports on two units in Asia doing ground-breaking work The Wellcome Trust may be Britain's largest and most influential...
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An advance warning system for allergies
Southampton has set up a unit to tackle allergies triggered by medical drugs. Geoff Watts reports Allergy is one of nature's little teases: unpredictable, unproductive and, with strawberries and...
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Pollution may interrupt reefs' rhythm method ...
Oestrogen pollutants in human sewage may be partially responsible for the decline of the world's coral reefs by interfering with their sexual rhythm. Researchers have found evidence that the...
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And give female fish a sexual identity crisis
Female fish are being masculinised by gender-bending pollutants in rivers. The effect, which has been largely overlooked by scientists, seems to be a mirror image of the more commonly recorded...