Gurus not Saussure about their idol's work
Jacques Guy analyses a half-hearted debunking of linguistic tin gods. Roy Harris, former professor of general linguistics at Oxford, has published extensively about Ferdinand de Saussure, the Swiss...
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Minor roles eclipse stars
Zoetrope
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, has a title that might well describe its famously curmudgeonly author: "What's he like?" The winner receives a...
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Refried hits for laughs
Film Parody
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More than monkey business
Solly Zuckerman
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An angel, a conman, a conjuror and kidney stones
The Queen's Conjuror
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Painful memory of a silent stalker
Post-Polio Syndrome
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Like to mix with stars? No thanks
Global Brain
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Laurie Taylor Column
A quality assurance expert claims that a "cartel" of quality inspectors has artificially bolstered the performance of philosophy departments in the Teaching Quality Assessment exercise - THES, June...
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Letter: Illiberal Opus Dei? (2)
You report the views of John Roche that Opus Dei undermines family ties and disapproves of ordinary friendships. This is contradicted by the writings of its founder, Josemaria Escriv de Balaguer. It...
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Letter: Not very broad church (2)
The Lambeth MA in theology takes the doctrinal biscuit. Of course no one expects the Church of England to appoint as archbishop of Canterbury someone whose theological position is at odds with its...
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Letter: What's the score? (1)
Saying that the Quality Assurance Agency subject reviewers in philosophy have formed a "cartel" ("Philosophy scores add to QAA criticism", THES , June 22) suggests that those reviewers are corrupt....
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Letter: Corporatist QAA
No one reading the Quality Assurance Agency's audit report on the Middlesex University franchise in Cairo would recognise it as justifying Phil Baty's story ("Franchises fail to impress", THES , June...
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Letter: PRP: perfectly ridiculous plan? (2)
Higher education staff feel a kinship with the Pied Piper. The job is done. Access has improved, student participation has doubled. Despite a decrease in the unit of resource, quality standards in...
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Letter: Let's hear it for Hodge (1)
Margaret Hodge may have said things with which many of us would disagree, but she is a bright woman, will listen and will learn quickly. Let us not forget that she has a strong record on equal...