Phthalate debate
Simon Heap displays a naive confidence in the ability of science to reach certain conclusions (Letters, THES, February 25). He claims that direct-to-mouth PVC products containing phthalate...
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Phthalate debate
Simon Heap's concerns about our article (Cutting Edge, THES, February 11) appear largely to be based on an uncritical reading of one side of the debate relating to the hazards of additives that leach...
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Consent concerns
Martin Ince states that "the near-complete genetic database of the population of Iceland being built by the US firm deCode Genetics may be shunned by major pharmaceutical companies because it does...
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Facts on funding
Your account of the funding of universities in England is misleading ("Elite capture lion's share of extra intake", THES, March 3). Hefce's grant allocations for teaching are based on funding similar...
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We're still public
The article on therapeutic cloning ("Will Britain buy a therapeutic cell?", THES, February 25) gave a good account of the debate. But there were two errors. First, the Roslin Institute remains very...
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Everyone's a winner
I would like to float an idea for widening higher education participation that goes as follows. Middle-class parents buy an inner-city terraced house in City X while their child is in the sixth form...
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RAE is a great boon to equal opps
A careful sifting of Peter Knight's article (Soapbox, THES, March 3) shows that the only mechanism in the research assessment exercise that produces a disadvantage for women is that they cannot...
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RAE is a great boon to equal opps
The RAE engenders some short-term fixes. Sometimes research "stars" are hired to improve a department's rating. It would impoverish universities and aspiring female academics if "not likely to become...
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RAE is a great boon to equal opps
Women's career patterns often do not conform to the expected pattern, and breaks for family responsibilities can mean a shorter list of publications. As a personnel director in a university, I have...
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RAE is a great boon to equal opps
Removing the RAE will not by itself increase the numbers of women in senior posts. University cultures with their institutional sexism and racism have to change first. Women in academia are burnt out...
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RAE is a great boon to equal opps
Any move that discriminates against age hits women doubly hard, especially if they are trying to return to a career after caring for a family. The article "Stark warning of staff crisis" (THES,...
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Last chance to avoid the fate of Leyland
In the run-up to budget day, John Ashworth argues the case for education mortgages that carry tax breaks A defining characteristic of new, as opposed to old, Labour is the recognition that it is...
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Outsiders looking in
As Ofsted moves into FE colleges, Chris Woodhead argues that universities might also benefit from having an inspector call Subject to the will of Parliament, the remit of school inspectors will soon...
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Smoke-free zone
(Photograph) - Ian Fleming's photograph was one of 300 laid out on the lawn at Magdalen College, Cambridge, this week as part of an art installation for national No Smoking Day. The pictures were all...
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In the news
Howard Newby's election as president of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals last year brought widespread expectations of change. Described as a "visionary" and "thinker", he has long...