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What a pity The THES made a drama of a ten-week-old pay-negotiations meeting rather than the hard news that the Transport and General Workers' Union, with 69 per cent in favour of the pay and...
What a pity The THES made a drama of a ten-week-old pay-negotiations meeting rather than the hard news that the Transport and General Workers' Union, with 69 per cent in favour of the pay and...
So "a senior source for the employers" blames Association of University Teachers' negotiators for failing to talk through the night to reach a settlement. Well, the deal offered bears all the...
John Gee (Letters, THES , October 3) is right that no financial benefit follows from membership of the Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, but that is not the fault of the ILTHE...
Paddy Scannell and Philip Schlesinger have undermined their arguments on research assessment by attacking Sir Gareth Roberts (Opinion, THES , October 3). They outline two principles: inclusiveness...
I wrongly attributed to Sir Gareth Roberts a proposal to pay institutions 60 per cent of full economic cost of research (Letters, THES , October 3). The proposal comes from an Office of Science and...
Daniel Pipes is correct that jihad can mean war but wrong in his argument that Osama bin Laden is waging one ("Why don't scholars admit that holy war means war?", THES , October 3). Pipes suggests...
Like the Cambridge dons Terry Eagleton denounces ("Bin Laden sure didn't read any beer mats", THES , October 3), I have not read a book by Derrida. My reasons are twofold. The bits I have read are...
I applied for a British Academy senior research fellowship for 2002-03 ("Prizes lost in 'golden triangle'", THES , October 3) in the belief the scheme was targeted at senior staff who had not yet...
Cannot Michael Rennie control the bile and acid caused by the arrival of upstart sport and exercise scientists in the research assessment exercise (Letters, THES , October 3)? There is something...
What is most surprising about the sorry saga at Harris Manchester College ("Oxford College in survival fight", THES , September 26) is the decision to cut history, a subject particularly attractive...
I would have been much more impressed if Robert Spitzer's research ("Storm over gay cure", THES , October 3) had shown that psychiatric therapy could turn straight people gay. Angus Erskine Perthshire
Most universities justify their effect on host communities by mentioning the benefits to the local economy (Town and Gown series, THES , August 1-September 12). Loughborough University even has a...
Columnist Gary Day complains about the imperialism of Russell Group universities (Opinion, THES , October 3) but then shows his own imperialist credentials by referring to all 19 as "being English"....
What a pity The THES made a drama of a ten-week-old pay-negotiations meeting rather than the hard news that the Transport and General Workers' Union, with 69 per cent in favour of the pay and...
So "a senior source for the employers" blames Association of University Teachers' negotiators for failing to talk through the night to reach a settlement. Well, the deal offered bears all the...