Too harsh a sentence
DIANE McGuinness writes that half the country's adults remain poor readers and that children's writing is way behind their reading (Perspective, THES, May 29). It would seem that some at least of...
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Too harsh a sentence
The article by Diane McGuinness omitted details of her book Why Children Can't Read is published this month as a Penguin paperback original at Pounds 8.99. YOU print "homogenous" with one "e" in your...
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Pounds 282 for a conference day out
IT IS time someone raised a concern about the ever-increasing cost of educational conferences. Fees are racing ahead of inflation and one-day conferences now cost more than three-day events just a...
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Purpose in Exodus
IN HIS disparagement of John Habgood's doubts about the Exodus account, Theo Balderston ("Habgood, have faith", Letters, THES, May 8) displays an uncritical attitude toward the biblical sources that...
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Keele's lost course
Your article by Vicky Hutchings ("A year of living famously", THES, May 29) describes Keele University as it was more than 20 years ago and yet highlights many of the features of the curriculum that...
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Academic blind spot in Asia
We are accustomed to the history of Orientalism in the West and its politically correct extension, the field of Asian studies. We are less aware, however, of Asian efforts to study one another's...
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Making security a cause for concern
At the University of Kent at Canterbury, students have launched a campaign to prevent increased security measures on campus. For one student, Ellen Raphael of the Open Campus group, it has all gone...
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Honours
Royal College of Physicians Graham Harding, professor of neurophysiology at Aston University, has been awarded honorary membership of the college. Prix Escalibur 1997 The prize was presented in...
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Appointments
University of Sunderland David Puttnam, film maker, visiting professor and governor of the London School of Economics, has been appointed chancellor. Dartington College of Arts Josie Sutcliffe,...
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Asian losses fear
ECONOMIC crisis in Southeast Asia could cost universities and colleges more than Pounds 50 million in two years, writes Harriet Swain. Latest estimates from the Higher Education Funding Council for...
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Governors 'not accountable'
Unaccountable governors and poor financial managers are damaging the cost-effectiveness of higher education's multi-billion pound building activities, a House of Commons Public Accounts Committee...
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Peers attack foreign study policy
Peers have criticised the Department for Education and Employment for failing to encourage more British students to study abroad. They say the DFEE has not thought through its international strategy...
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Fellowships
Royal Academy of Engineering The following have been awarded Anglo-Australian postdoctoral fellowships to work for a year at British universities: Russell Boyce, University of Queensland in Brisbane...
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Venture cash for entrepreneurs
The government and the City joined forces this week to announce three new venture capital funds worth Pounds 240 million. The move, the latest in a stream of measures aimed at boosting...
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First Impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a former US soldier who grasped - but not at straws: "If you really want to...