Old English lives: outside Oxford
Cunningham's problem seems to be with Beowulf itself. Citing Kingsley Amis's quite spectacularly daft comment is really a bit too selective, especially as Amis said in his memoirs that he had come to...
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Hard slog and grunge
The distinction between self-driven and externally driven choices in academic work that the vice-provost of University College London makes ("Unpaid slog sustains research", THES, May 12) is facile....
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Hard slog and grunge
I am sure that the director of finance at Heriot-Watt University is basically right when he says that "the only thing keeping higher education going is academics working their balls off". However, he...
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Hard slog and grunge
If the core activities of teaching and research are not to be driven further to the fringes of our working lives by the rising tide of "grunge" then we need to be much tougher on grunge and its...
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RTTS-1 Cancer cure rationing
I am quite prepared to believe that the National Health Service does not do what it ought to treat the elderly. Nevertheless, the assumption in Steve Farrar's report ("Cancer treatment ageism", THES...
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White's rights
In claiming that the Caroline White issue is no more than a disciplinary matter ("Barred professor to face disciplinary action", THES, May 12)b the University of Natal, South Africa, is...
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He's good, but not that good
It's time Cambridge scrapped its compulsory exam on Shakespeare, argues Jennifer Wallace I love Shakespeare. He provides me with the magic I need in A Midsummer Night's Dream, where love turns out to...
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Getting ahead
(Photograph) - Mature students from Bournville College in Birmingham practice giving Indian head massages as part of their reflexology and aromatherapy course. Photograph by JAMIE JONES
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Eyewitness
Universities are increasingly seen as the frontline in socioeconomic development of the non-industrialised world. Earlier this year, a joint World Bank/Unesco task force signalled a shift in donor...
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Sources for research funding
EUROPEAN SCIENCE FOUNDATION www.esf.org Assessment of Impacts of Genetically Modified Plants The programme offers travel grants and a small number of fellowships for researchers in the fields of the...
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Cutting edge
Nottingham Trent University has established a centre to research trauma - a much- misunderstood psychiatric disorder The recent claim by ex-servicemen against the Ministry of Defence for compensation...
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Coping with mid-kid crises
Freud may not have had time for them, but five to 16-year-olds have much to tell us. Geoff Watts reports Forget about the outbreak of moral panic over Section 28. The dominant factor in matters of...
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Sinister sleeping companions
Millions of people are sleeping in beds teeming with the droppings of cockroaches and dust mites. A nationwide survey of homes in the United States, the most thorough study of its kind, has revealed...
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Supernova blast in Chandra sight
The violent progress of the blast wave of Supernova 1987A - the brightest supernova seen from Earth for four centuries - has been revealed by American space agency Nasa's Chandra X-ray observatory....
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Aznar picks female head of research
BARCELONA Spanish prime minister Jose Mar!a Aznar has created a new ministry in charge of research as one of the first acts of his new government. The ministry of science and technology is to be...