Letter: Imperial clarity (2)
You made a lively piece out of Imperial College's application for degree-awarding powers ("Imperial bids for degrees", THES , April 20) but the reality is more prosaic. It is University of London...
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Letter: Cull of languages lacked logic
You quote a spokesman of the Higher Education Funding Council for England as doubting that universities would agree to regional planning of subject provision because they were autonomous ("Lecturers...
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Leader: Missing jam for doughnut-style university world
Abolishing tenure was supposed to make British universities more likely to give people permanent jobs because it would be easier to make staff redundant in hard times. It did not work out that way....
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Net payoff is in parking
Universities that are investing in distance education will eventually earn back funds through such unrelated areas as decreased traffic congestion and freed-up classroom space, a Canadian researcher...
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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 work originally entitled Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World : "My father had a small...
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New men making a mark in an old world
Persia and the West
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Market mucks up mom and dad
Howard Glennerster finds working families are losing out in the US. Those familiar with Theda Scokpol's early writing will remember her as a brilliant social historian of America's early welfare...
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Signs, sense and sentiment
Images, Icons and the Irish Nationalist Imagination 1870-1925
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Notes from a small-island archaeologist
An Island Archaeology of the Early Cyclades
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Paranoia, or normal parental anxiety?
Paranoid Parenting
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Trait not shared by the short and fat
The Mystery of Courage
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Global frequency adjustments
Radio in the Global Age
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Living change under Boris
Moscow: The Beautiful and the Damned
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Upheavals at home
Families, Households and Society - Feminism and the Family