Pink man sees red
Why is it that white academics studying black culture have such a hard time, asks Alan Rice Usually when you land a book contract what you feel is euphoria. That is certainly what I felt when my book...
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Innocence amid TVU slaughter
Thames Valley may have had problems with its management, but Geoffrey Alderman is unconvinced by attacks on its academic record In the summer of 1997 the Quality Assurance Agency undertook a special...
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Derby dumbs down to gain Israeli cash
Derby University has been admitting students to degree courses in Israel without agreed minimum entry qualifications and has withheld details of its operations from the Israeli regulating authority,...
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What about English?
Once again five historians have been elected to the British Academy (Glittering prizes, THES, July 9), but only one member of an English department. Should an organisation that accepts public funding...
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Cosmic calamity
Your treatment of the cosmic impact threat ("Threats from deep space require deep thinking", THES, July 16) confuses two aspects of the problem. One is the detection and cataloguing of potential...
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Cosmic calamity
Your question, "If nuclear weapons are the only way of diverting an incoming asteroid, is it worth keeping them in existence for the purpose, or would it be safer on balance to disarm and risk the...
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Cosmic calamity
According to the Duckworth Riskometer ("Odds in the game of life", THES, July 9), the risk factor due to asteroid impacts is more than five times that of taking a 100-mile rail journey and only...
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PhD jobs crisis
Rebecca Stott's article on the lack of proper training or careers advice for English literature postgraduates ("No jobs for the boys ... or girls," THES, July 16) struck a chord. For the past three...
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PhD jobs crisis
The DPhil programme needs to include other training opportunities for postgraduates. The main reason I embarked on one was that I hoped I would have the opportunity to teach in higher education while...
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PhD jobs crisis
I am 24 and my supervisor is looking at the first draft of my PhD thesis in English. I have spent two of the past three years as a hall tutor dealing with unpleasant situations, ranging from...
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PhD jobs crisis
I had not realised a PhD was intended as preparation for lecturing. If this were the case, it would be a vocational qualification, not an academic one. When I began my postgraduate career I was...
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PhD jobs crisis
Arts and humanities courses lag behind other disciplines in the provision of work experience. This may make it more difficult for these students to find suitable employment. Most employers are not...
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Learn-while-you-earn
It is undoubtedly true that some students do have negative experiences of work and that many find the competing demands of work and study hard to juggle ("Missing out on the experience", THES, July...
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Complaints: externals inevitable
As a member of the Quality Assurance Agency working group on student complaints and appeals not representing any constituency, I would like to commend the QAA officers for their skill and tolerance...
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Stirling work?
The one external examiner who attended the Stirling MBA exam board meeting complained of the poor quality of the exam papers (Whistleblowers, THES, July 16). But surely he or she was sent them for...