War not only way to oust Saddam 2
To Peter Sluglett's credit, he was campaigning for democracy and human rights in Iraq long before Tony Blair discovered it would be a good venue for war. Sluglett also concedes that recent US-UK...
To Peter Sluglett's credit, he was campaigning for democracy and human rights in Iraq long before Tony Blair discovered it would be a good venue for war. Sluglett also concedes that recent US-UK...
There is an unintended significance in Brenda Silver's remark about Virginia Woolf: "That nose: so prominent, so aristocratic, so much a part of our visual imagine of Virginia Woolf that The Hours'...
Reform of Cambridge University governance has not failed, as Gordon Johnson implies, through dons' narrow-minded obstinacy ("Stalled reforms are not cause for celebration", THES , February 21). The...
Congratulations to Alan Sinfield ("Reader you are not welcome", THES , February 14). Nearly three years after the subject benchmarking statement for English was written, he got around to reading it...
John Rushforth's defence of the First Destination Survey (Letters, THES , February 14) does not ring true. I was employed as a telephone interviewer by a university that shall remain nameless. We...
In a week in which events of academic interest included debates over Iraq and peace protests around the world, concern about space research following the space shuttle explosion, and the possibility...
Can we now look forward to a regular THES feature on anthropology? If so, might I suggest that the logical location would be on page three? Keith Snell Director of Research Services Institute of...
Eric Thomas justifies vice-chancellors' 6 per cent average pay rise by saying that staff invariably receive more than pay settlements because of incremental drift (Letters, THES , February 14). Many...
Now that the annual nine days of wonderment at vice-chancellors' salaries has passed, will The THES make further public disclosures? Your tables (News, THES , February 7) show that 998 individuals in...
Your review of Pevsner on Art and Architecture: The Radio Talks (Books, THES, February 21) reminded me of attending Nikolaus Pevsner's Slade lectures as a sixth-former in the mid-1960s. The lectures...
The article "What justifies a £3,000 fee?" (Analysis, THES , February 21) reinforces the false perception that universities are homogeneous and uniformly good or bad. Entry requirements influence...
Jisc and US science partner sign £6m deal A £6 million deal to develop online learning and teaching has been signed by the Joint Information Systems Committee and the US National Science Foundation....
Choose on merit, universities told Tony Blair became embroiled in the row over university admissions yesterday when he said places should be awarded on merit and not on the basis of class.His remarks...
Brussels, 26 Feb 2003 Countries that succeed with information communication technologies (ICT) are likely to develop more quickly, was the resounding message from EU Commissioner for Enterprise and...
Brussels, 26 Feb 2003 The European Commission has published a call for proposals for a wide range of activities under the ASEAN-EU University Network Programme (AUNP), which aims to promote mutual...