Silence on funding rules does not mean assent
Graeme Davies is disingenuous in interpreting "the relative silence of the academic community over the current funding model as assent". Those of us who have suffered most from a system designed to...
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Selling science short
Scientific research is in danger because neo-liberals have espoused central planning. In a recent article, Simon Jenkins (THES, October 10) highlighted one of the most puzzling aspects of British...
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Professors on move
So, Mr Simmonds (Letters, THES, November 24) is concerned that Bishop Burton College, a further education college, is to have a chair endowed by commercial sponsorship. He worries that this practice...
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Professors on move
I was surprised at the letter headed "Amazing dancing profs". Surely the writer and subeditor know that Christopher Bannerman has the chair in dance at Middlesex University, and is internationally...
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Driven to crime
Lecturer Jim Hawes is on the road to fame and fortune with his first novel, A White Merc with Fins. Huw Richards reports. Hawes the novelist Brady wanted a real gun, he insisted on a real gun, the...
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Less Minerva, more Venus
Tim Cornwell discovers that sex is contributing to the demise of an American academic institution. John Rawls's Theory of Justice began life as a monograph; so did Benedict Anderson's "imagined...
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Unfinished business
Nancy Folbre argues that women are not yet powerful enough to persuade men to share the costs of child-care. Gender is now an indispensable word in the economic development vocabulary. Most...
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Rock of ages
David Walker talks to the enduring music critic and professor Simon Frith. A funny thing happened on the way to the Mercury Music Awards this year. Pop music became front-page news in a way it had...
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Brutality management
As the carnage in Bosnia ends, Richard Clogg asks if there are lessons in an earlier episode of ethnic engineering. Twenty miles of carts I with exhausted, staggering men, women and children,...
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Women to watch
Joanna Gray and E. Stina Lyon (THES, November 17) highlight gender issues raised by the research assessment exercise, but both may have underestimated its contribution to the emergence of "new...
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Hybrid ripe for change
Anthea Millett explains the Teacher Training Agency's proposals for reform. The recent launch of a consultation paper on the future funding of initial teacher training met with a disappointing...
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A level guide to ability
Two of the four letters responding to my article (Personal View, THES, November 17) on the national scandal of disparate A-level grades in different subjects, referred with great confidence to "...
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A level guide to ability
I waited with increasing frustration for Simon Szreter to entertain the notion that those studying for A levels in the hard sciences and in languages might be more likely to achieve high grades...
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A level guide to ability
Simon Szreter's view on A level grades is an astonishing misuse of statistics. He argues that, because a higher proportion of A-level candidates gain A and B grades in some subjects than in others,...
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Confucius and chips
They will be dancing in the streets of the Chinese capital Beijing tonight, as they do every night. There will be long, sinuous serpentine dragon dances in the quiet squares, and, in the underpasses...