The ceiling will cave in
I HAVE read with some concern the case of Gill Evans at the University of Cambridge and her long fight for an objective and transparent promotion procedure for all academic colleagues (THES, May 9)....
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Dialogue of the deaf
ARTHUR MARWICK's criticisms (THES, May 23) of postmodernism might command more respect if the manner in which they were made was less bellicose. Cliche and caricature, such as "the fight engulfing...
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Smart card for learning
IT IS good to hear that Sir Ron Dearing is looking towards individual learning accounts (THES, May 23). It would however be a grave mistake to have a separate system of accounts based only on higher...
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An archive paradox
WITH reference to your article on access to archives (THES, May 9), I should like to point out that many of the problems examined in this piece are ones which students and acadmics working in film...
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Teaching council needs higher input
AT SOME universities it would appear that research performance has become a key factor in redundancy policies, with alleged under-performers being asked to consider retirement or severance. It is...
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Don's Diary
Saturday Back to Shanghai to root around the archives once more. I'm here for three weeks' research on a British Academy exchange scheme with the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. First things...
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Research institutes go into red to avoid job cuts
GOVERNMENT research institutes are playing a dangerous game with their staff's careers, according to the Institute of Professionals, Managers and Specialists. Following a sudden reduction in Ministry...
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Social class under microscope
DETAILED guidance on students' backgrounds is to be made available to all universities under a scheme now being piloted. From next spring, institutions will be able to receive profiles of their own...
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MRC overhauls university grants
THE MEDICAL Research Council is to revamp its university grant system for the first time in 30 years. The move has been welcomed by university vice chancellors. The MRC's new package does away with...
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Part-time study on the wane
THE GAP between the number of Scottish full-time and part-time higher education students has been widening since the late 1980s, with no sign of any significant overall increase in part-time study....
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Research papers
Research papers relating to the stories on this page (where indicated) can be found through THESIS, The THES Internet Service at: http://thesis.newsint.co.uk
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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 nomadic scribe: "In my grandmother's dining-room there was a glass-fronted...
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Shooting from the hip
The Undeclared War
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One badly blemished Brahmin
Jawaharlal Nehru - Nehru
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Symbol-Minded
Marks of Excellence - Signs, Symbols and Icons