Leader: Big science demands longer-term policies
In our lifetime, the origin of the universe and its properties of mass, time and space has turned from a matter of speculation or belief into experimental science. The same applies to the existence...
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Leader: They have made their stand, now they must deliver
Any management expert knows that mergers, demergers and acquisitions are among the toughest of business challenges. Merging companies, let alone universities, should be approached with all the...
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Letter: Grades of error (1)
Sir Harold Kroto is absolutely correct in saying that a single number performance indicator "takes no account of important variations in the disparate educational factors offered by various...
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Letter: Grades of error (2)
The problems the QAA is facing can easily be traced to its failure to grasp the difference between "quality assurance" and the "assurance of quality". Both are well defined internationally in ISO9000...
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Letter: Future goals
When, despite being far ahead in the premiership, Roy Keane remarked after Manchester United's defeat in the European Cup: "We are just not good enough", some commentators began to question the...
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Letter: Luton staff courses
The context of Luton University's discussion on staff development is rather wider and better known than your article inferred ("Staff boost student roll-call", THES , June 8). The university is...
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Letter: Part-timer challenge
Your open letter to ministers (Leader, THES , June 8) neatly summarised the most urgent challenges facing higher education. New Labour has set ambitious targets for high-quality growth. So far it has...
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Letter: Doctors order a dose of ethics (1)
Your feature on the role of humanities in medical education and practice ("Try an aspirin and a bit of Shakespeare", THES , June 1) was welcome in recognising an emerging field of inter-disciplinary...
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Letter: Doctors order a dose of ethics (2)
Humanities complements the scientific approach to medicine. The relationship between doctor-patient and doctor-colleagues is a large element of medicine. Diagnostic, treatment, communication and...
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Letter: Deficit dips
To clarify "Job losses feared as Glasgow forecasts £3m deficit" ( THES , June 8): the latest forecast for the current financial year shows a £2.3 million deficit. This figure was submitted to the...
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Letter: Bribes and grooming
Tom Wilson's objective of "raising the status of teaching" is as admirable an aim as his strategy - support for the Institute for Learning and Teaching - is obtuse (Letters, THES , June 8). His...
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Gene answer spawns a lot of questions
They make humans unique yet ordinary, sell Levis and excuse promiscuity. Sarah Franklin looks at the confusing messages of gene mania. The fact that the rough draft of the human genome shows we have...
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Big Man versus big bang theory
In the first in a series on the big science questions, Julia Hinde looks at science's relationship with religion while, below, John Polkinghorne argues that the study of physics need not preclude a...
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Only the hand of God could have conjured up the mind of mankind
John Polkinghorne argues that the study of physics need not preclude a belief in the Almighty. The belief in the existence of God, as defined by concepts that would be held in common by the three...
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Depressed? You need 15 months in a lock-up
After her hellish treatment, a woman is fighting the diagnosis of personality disorder. Adam James reports. Five years ago, Deborah Tallis was compulsorily detained in a secure psychiatric unit. She...