Restricted to men of 'taste and education'
A Victorian gentleman's collection of phalluses sounds intriguing, right? Laura Thomas explains why curator David Gaimster (right) is determined to prevent the break-up of the collection kept in...
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Can vote, won't vote
Is Britain facing a collapse of democracy? As fewer and fewer people turn out to vote, Paul Whiteley outlines a nationwide programme launched to find out why Last month's election for London's mayor...
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A small step from monkey to the giant that is mankind
Why do humans get Aids and chimps don't? Some researchers say a chimp genome project would give us the answer. Ayala Ochert reports Just this month, Human Genome Project scientists announced the...
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Who'll enrol at e(litist)-university?
Far more students need access to the internet if it is to drive education, argues Anthony Hesketh There are 300 million internet users across the globe. One million new web pages were created in 1998...
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Old English lives: outside Oxford
It is hard to disagree with Cunningham's cheerful valediction to compulsory Old English at Oxford. In the university marketplace the onus is on those who teach it to make it attractive (which is...
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Old English lives: outside Oxford
Cunningham's problem seems to be with Beowulf itself. Citing Kingsley Amis's quite spectacularly daft comment is really a bit too selective, especially as Amis said in his memoirs that he had come to...
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Hard slog and grunge
The distinction between self-driven and externally driven choices in academic work that the vice-provost of University College London makes ("Unpaid slog sustains research", THES, May 12) is facile....
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Hard slog and grunge
I am sure that the director of finance at Heriot-Watt University is basically right when he says that "the only thing keeping higher education going is academics working their balls off". However, he...
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Hard slog and grunge
If the core activities of teaching and research are not to be driven further to the fringes of our working lives by the rising tide of "grunge" then we need to be much tougher on grunge and its...
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RTTS-1 Cancer cure rationing
I am quite prepared to believe that the National Health Service does not do what it ought to treat the elderly. Nevertheless, the assumption in Steve Farrar's report ("Cancer treatment ageism", THES...
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White's rights
In claiming that the Caroline White issue is no more than a disciplinary matter ("Barred professor to face disciplinary action", THES, May 12)b the University of Natal, South Africa, is...
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He's good, but not that good
It's time Cambridge scrapped its compulsory exam on Shakespeare, argues Jennifer Wallace I love Shakespeare. He provides me with the magic I need in A Midsummer Night's Dream, where love turns out to...
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Getting ahead
(Photograph) - Mature students from Bournville College in Birmingham practice giving Indian head massages as part of their reflexology and aromatherapy course. Photograph by JAMIE JONES
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Eyewitness
Universities are increasingly seen as the frontline in socioeconomic development of the non-industrialised world. Earlier this year, a joint World Bank/Unesco task force signalled a shift in donor...
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Sources for research funding
EUROPEAN SCIENCE FOUNDATION www.esf.org Assessment of Impacts of Genetically Modified Plants The programme offers travel grants and a small number of fellowships for researchers in the fields of the...