Hindu students
Parita Mukta is under the impression that the literature of the National Hindu Students Forum (not federation as she states) is anti-secular and gender biased, based on reference to our "Beware"...
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Treasury holds the key to door
I was glad to see, after all the lurid headlines over the Laura Spence case, that The THES (June 2) carried some robust good sense and proportion, including Geraint Davies's measured Why I... (...
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Treasury holds the key to door
The core of the admissions problem is that families can improve their children's chances by paying for them to attend private schools, with smaller classes, better-paid staff and more lavish...
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Treasury holds the key to door
Half a century ago, the Labour Party committed itself to abolishing private schools. The debate over Oxbridge selection procedures confirms the wisdom of that policy and exposes as mere rhetoric the...
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Treasury holds the key to door
The truth behind A-level statistics is less than reassuring for the state sector: 44 per cent of pupils who gain three A levels come from the 7 per cent who attend independent schools, whereas 56 per...
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Beware dodgy data
The claim that "male professors at Stirling University earn 24 per cent more than females" is simply wrong ("Sexism and ageism blight careers of female academics, says Natfhe", THES, May 26) We...
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Beware dodgy data
You report that the Association of University Teachers has accused London Guildhall University of paying its junior female researchers 43 per cent less than males. This is nonsense. The figures take...
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Licence to fufil
It is simply not true to say that "authors are missing out on a fortune" (News, THES, May 19). In the financial year just ended, the Copyright Licensing Agency collected Pounds 24 million in...
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RAE webwise in 2001
Peter Wardley (Letters, THES, June 2) suggests that the transparency of the research assessment exercise would be improved by publication of institutions' submissions on the internet. This is already...
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Why I ...think degree classification should be abolished
A qualification tells the public what a person has achieved. It might also give an assurance about what a person is competent to do. It is because the public needs a common currency of qualifications...
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Degrees are not enough
Campus careers services must do more to help students into work, argues Baroness Blackstone. Too many careers services are Cinderella operations, banished to the edges of campuses and wholly separate...
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Prejudice, yes
Ignorant, wrong and stupid. That is Valentine Cunningham's view of ministers' attacks on Oxford's alleged 'elitist bias'. Oxford University is being most unfairly vilified for its admissions...
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Why the future lies in a back-to-basics approach
Is basic research being neglected in Spain? Manuel Palacin, whose research has identified genes that carry renal disorders, believes it is. Spanish scientist Manuel Palac!n is concerned that the...
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Cutting edge
Study of the tools and production methods of 2.5 million years ago holds the key to understanding modern technology The way in which technology has developed over the past 2.5 million years is one of...
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Spain makes up for lost time
In our focus on Spanish research, Rebecca Warden reports on a new ministry, new money and the efforts to form links with industry. Spanish science could be described as a late developer now making up...