Beards and claret
There is no financial crisis in the Association of University Teachers (Diary, THES, November 13). Like all sensible organisations, we plan for the future. A significant element of that has been the...
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Beards and claret
A whole article about the respective images of the AUT and lecturers' union Natfhe ("Unions divided by their similarities", THES, November 13) and you still miss the essence of the thing: Natfhe has...
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Time to abolish the study of God
Should theologians believe in god ("Do academic theologians have to believe in God?", THES, November 13)? Should psychiatrists be mad? Religions are systems of irrational beliefs and to suggest that...
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Time to abolish the study of God
As a rationalist, I thought I would never agree with Graham Ward, but I cannot but concur wholeheartedly with his conclusion that "no Christian non-believer can be a Christian theologian". If...
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Time to abolish the study of God
The comments made by Graham Ward and John Millbank suggest we do not have a commonly agreed definition of what theology is, and until we do how can we begin to tackle the question of faith and...
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Time to abolish the study of God
Graham Ward concludes that "no Christian non-believer should be a Christian theologian". I am relieved that that allows non-Christian (non-) believers to be theologians of Christianity (although,...
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Fear of funds shortfall brings HEFCE scrutiny
Thames Valley University will submit monthly financial reports to the funding council as huge student under-recruitment raises fears of a Pounds 3.8 million funding shortfall. Sir William Taylor,...
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Engineering malaise
Engineering departments are finding it ever harder to recruit good staff. A recent Association of University Teachers meeting at the House of Commons was told that, in the past ten years, only eight...
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Try not to compete
The capacity of "knowledge businesses" such as corporate universities to compete with traditional universities is a consequence of, not an argument for, the growth of market-led and vocational higher...
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Bum buzz-phrase
Phil Race's "Give the students the big picture" (THES, November 13) cried out for a latter-day Henry Reed ("And today we have course validation documentation .... And whatever you do, don't call the...
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No money for Plant
The "For the record" column (THES, November 13) referred to the cancellation of the preliminary hearing scheduled to determine the competence of the claim for unfair dismissal by Martin Plant against...
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Make selection fairer
A commonly used procedure apparently being imposed by personnel departments in making academic appointments at all levels - that of forming a shortlist on the basis of applications alone, and then...
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Thinkers never die
Ray Monk argues that academic philosophy does not have to be dry, boring and useless Among the many, many things called "the new rock and roll" by journalists lately, the most surprising, perhaps, is...
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Glad to be gay, but still unequal
Andrew Pakes is "out" but understands why many academics and students don't want to be It has been a gay few weeks in the media with the revelation that some cabinet ministers are really homosexual....
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Readers' reactions
Two weeks ago in The THES... Valentine Cunningham warned that the study of English risked being swallowed up by cultural studies. Responses are still flooding in Anthony Easthope, Professor of...