Letter: To add to your list...
The article "Science's top media stars of 2000" (THES, December 22/29), based on national newspaper quotes, excludes me. I have at least 18 citations, which would put me in your top ten, including...
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Letter: Openness and animals
Your editorial ("Existing law on animal use must be enforced", THES, December 15) rightly argues that animal research should not be carried out in secrecy. The sad fact is that it is shrouded in...
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Letter: Give just rewards for work (1)
Before performance-related pay is introduced in higher education ("Performance pay strings divide sector", THES, January 5), we should look at other sectors where it has been introduced to see if it...
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Letter: Give just rewards for work (2)
Under the Labour government in 1968, the Prices and Incomes Board proposed that 3 per cent of the university salary bill be performance pay. There was to be merit money for professors and accelerated...
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Letter: Give just rewards for our work (3)
It is depressing to see that the government is trying to reintroduce performance-related pay - something that failed absolutely the last time it was tried because it is so inappropriate to the work...
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Letter: A political priority
Your editorial ("Still no room on the election manifestoes", THES, January 5) bemoans the likelihood that higher education will be relegated to the sidelines in the forthcoming election and states...
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Letter: In the bad books
Protests by students and lecturers at the University of Ibadan against a visiting World Bank staffer trying to foist another large loan on Nigerian universities was sadly familiar ("Loan plea gives...
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Letter: Lifelong variety
Alison Utley's piece on lifelong learning last week ("We have ways of making you learn", THES, January 5) did not recognise that lifelong learning is not a unitary concept. The academics she...
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Letter: Disabling tactics
How depressing to see Universities UK scaremongering about disabled people (For the record, THES, January 5). It was tactics such as this from the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals (now...
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Daily TV & radio guide - Friday
Seeking the Soul: The Music of Alfred Schnittke (from 6.00 R3). The start of a whole weekend – performance, recollection, discussion – devoted to the great Russian-German composer Schnittke, who died...
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Higher Channels
Pick of the week After the previous programme’s mixture of fact and speculation about life on Mars, this week’s » Horizon : Destination Mars (Thursday 9.00 BBC2) turns to a possible manned mission to...
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When you're old, who cares how you die?
Doctors' failure to recognise that her mother was suffering from CJD alerted Judith Okely to the medical profession's inherent ageism. The crisis over mad cow disease has shown how scientific...
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Helping the world to breathe more easily
In the battle against climate change, good intentions are not enough. Lobbyists must become more Machiavellian. Fred Pearce reports. Know your enemy." It has been Paul Harris's motto as United States...
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The iguanas can stay, but everything else must go
As Ecuadoreans queue to leave, Oxford academics are working with local groups to put the country's economy back on track. Rob Stepney reports. Giant iguanas used to hang out in the trees, but more...
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Prosper with a Peruvian
Fancy putting your specialist knowledge to more profitable use? Susan Basalla and Maggie Debelius's study of US academics who have established new careers shows that the leap from campus to commerce...