Letter: 'Ducking' UUK keeps powder dry (3)
The failure of vice-chancellors to fight for more funding comes as no surprise. The way they have squeezed staff salaries and hounded students for debt suggests they are more intent on reducing...
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Letter: 'Ducking' UUK keeps powder dry (4)
Sir Howard Newby may see "no point in pressing for specific proposals on funding" because he no doubt believes that the "budget boosts funding" and "universities will benefit from a raft of measures...
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Letter: Examiner fee examined (1)
Gerald Mars complains about being paid only £105 for external examining (Letters, THES, March 9). Next time, he might try drawing attention to the minimum rates recommended by the Association of...
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Letter: Examiner fee examined (2)
Gerald Mars's letter highlights the connivance of senior management in keeping academic pay at levels well below those in commerce and industry. Most registrars would say that the PhD examination fee...
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Letter: What social policy?
As the most recent past external examiner to the social policy courses at Sussex University, I was interested to read new pro vice-chancellor Mary Stuart's views on universities needing to "...
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Letter: Right against right
Upon reading the article about Edward Said ("Critical thinking on the path to peace", THES, March 9), it struck me how symmetrical the situation in the Israel-Palestinian conflict has become,...
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Letter: Natal defended
For months the University of Natal has had to endure a stream of insults from Caroline White, formerly a professor at the university, that have been given much prominence in the media. In a recent...
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High life is in the blood
How do communities in the Andes and Tibet cope with living at such high altitudes? Cynthia Beall believes it is a question of evolution. Steve Farrar reports. It was not an ideal start. En route to...
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Astute decision by the academy or deliberate provocation of China?
Having campaigned relentlessly for a Nobel for literature, China was outraged when one was awarded to dissident Gao Xingjian. Howard Goldblatt reflects on a controversial award. It has been said...
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Soul Mountain - an extract
Above the branches of the two spreading elms, one leaning to the left and the other to the right, there was originally a stretch of shining white water, like snow which had fallen on a flat cement...
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To move a Mountain can take a Nobel
In China, his writing made him an enemy of the state. In the West, he barely sold enough books to buy cigarettes. Karen Gold profiles the enigmatic Nobel-winner Gao Xingjian. It is a good story: a...
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If you want people to take your advice...
...befriend a civil servant. Virginia Berridge discusses how scientists can turn research into public policy. In the recent panics caused by BSE, genetically modified food, food poisoning and foot-...
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Latest UK news
Means test denies medics NHS bursaries Fast-track medical students are set to lose thousands of pounds in National Health Service bursaries after a ruling that they will be means tested on...
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Latest international news
Hebrew University hits fundraising target Jerusalem’s Hebrew University, which set out to raise 2.5 billion shekels (£416 million) in five years, has achieved its target in just three years and has...
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From today's UK papers
Financial Times Nanostructures that have been imaged and analysed by US researchers at Northwestern University might make a hard coating for gears or an oxidation-resistant coating for aircraft...