Too much research, not enough teaching?
Do academics like Anthony Giddens neglect their students? Brian Brivati refutes the charge. The recent article and exchange of letters in The Guardian about whether or not Anthony Giddens, professor...
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The bright blues
Are the Tories, after decades of proudly sporting their moniker as 'the stupid party', becoming intellectual? Huw Richards looks at the evidence. A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks -...
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Don's Diary
Wednesday. I spend most of the morning tidying up loose ends on a paper, checking references, adjusting graphs and tables and finally printing out copies for submission to the journal. As my last...
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Better safe than prosecuted
David Wenham gives some tips on laboratory safety proceedures. The prosecution of a university reader following an accident during an undergraduate chemistry project created much interest and...
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A Balkan question in search of an answer
As fighting in the former Yugoslavia escalates, The THES asked leading academics the following questions: 1. What action do you think Britain and the UN should take next? 2. Is the present attitude...
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Look east, we're lagging behind
Every now and then the world's attention shifts. For much of the post-war period it focused on the Third World, on Korea and Vietnam and the struggles against colonialism. In the 1980s it was the...
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Judge people, not project
I am one of the 1,222 unsuccessful applicants in this year's Economic and Social Research Council research studentship competition, but fortunately I have a job. My complaint is about the way the...
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Window of research opportunity
Your report and headline "British Academy cuts PhD years" on my address on behalf of the British Academy's Humanities Research Board for Graduate Education (THES, July 28) is misleading. First, the...
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Fiction of national standards
There are 10,000 external examiner slots to be filled at any one time, but how feasible and desirable is the role? Harold Silver asks. The key finding of the recent project on the future of external...
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Raising the grade gets the money
You report Graeme Davies (THES, July 28) belatedly telling universities that they should desist from participating in the pre-research assessment exercise transfer deadline because their investment...
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Barking up the New Right tree
Readers should not be misled by Harvey Kaye's superficial misconstrual of Newt Gingrich's remarkable book To Renew America (THES, July 28). Nor should they follow him in underestimating the...
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Afrikaner off the Marx
Do I detect just a hint of poetic licence in Mike Cole's Don's Diary (THES, July 7)? The gentleman he saw in full regalia in a coffee bar in the Orange Free State could certainly not have been a...
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A contract killing
In his vicious maligning of further education staff who have rejected the Colleges Employers Forum contract, Roger Ward (THES, July 26) demonstrates yet again the ignorant hostility that has made it...
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Excitement in the challenge
Engineering and Physical Sciences All efforts to ensure that science and technology can contribute to national well-being rely for their success on one vital factor; namely the inherent excitement of...
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Unesco digs deep to save caveman site
The United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation is appealing for help to raise Pounds 1.6 million to fund emergency protection of the endangered Peking Man site in China. The money...