Growing pains of a fiscal colossus
The Cambridge Economic History of the United States, Volume III
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Right-hand men with the power to change destiny
Second Amongst Equals
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Fortunes and misfortunes of war
War and Underdevelopment. Volume One - War and Underdevelopment. Volume Two
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a trilogy about war: "The sky over London was glorious, ochre and madder, as though a dozen tropical...
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Laurie Taylor column
Universities use "culturally narrow" selection criteria - Audit Office report, January 2002. Yes, come in. Mr Errol Constantine? That's right. Excellent. My name is Professor Lapping and this is Dr...
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Letter: Maths cock-ups count
Mathematics A-level incidents these days seem to be mirroring my university experiences. In my finals, I was faced with a seemingly straightforward question that I couldn't do. I now know that it...
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Letter: Pleasure without pain
The view expressed in "Stuck through with spears and smiling" (Books, THES , January 4) is not correct about the human appreciation of a work of art. Any good artist tries to express the emotions -...
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Letter: Quality assumption
I'm glad Peter Williams wants a proper debate on the meaning of "quality" and "accountability", (Opinion, THES , January 11). In fact such a debate exists already, though it has been ignored by the...
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Letter: Blue thoughts
Perhaps David Walker is too dismissive of Michael Oakeshott's influence on the Tories ("A traditionalist with the eye of a sceptic", THES , January 18). Anyone reading Iain Duncan Smith's "vision"...
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Letter: If it ain't broke...
The Welsh Assembly's education committee has defined a vision for higher education with which no one could disagree. It is a pity that some of its recommendations are so manifestly ill-suited to the...
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Letter: Value in the old 1
Sad that The THES should base its national "access elite" league table ( THES , January 18) solely on "young" (ie under 21) undergraduate entrants. Mature entrants comprised 22 per cent of the 1999-...
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Letter: Value in the old 2
The percentage of any university's students that come from lower social groups cannot be measured against a national norm as most students from these groups study locally. Recent research...
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Letter: Feel the quality, not the volume 2
The vice-chancellors of Lancaster, Umist and York argue for a research assessment exercise league table based on total staff ("Rankled by rankings", Letters, THES , January 18). This is not...
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Letter: Feel the quality, not the volume 1
The vice-chancellors of Lancaster, Umist and York correctly point out that research league tables are usually based on misleading assumptions about staff not submitted to the RAE. Such people are...
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Letter: Feel the quality, not the volume 3
Surely the underpinning problem with RAE league-table construction, or at least the particular problem identified by the vice-chancellors, is that we are trying to describe and rank, using a single...