Accountants and NVQs
Your item on the new vocational qualifications (THES, December 4) contained two false statements about national vocational qualifications that are commonly made and that do not assist efforts to...
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Speaking up for the lab animals
The fact that the Animal Rights Militia (THES, December 11) allegedly threatened to kill researchers if Barry Horne died on hunger strike should not be used as a pretext to condemn the entire anti-...
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Serious Scots
Readers could be forgiven for believing that much of the Scottish National Party's "People's Assembly on Education" was devoted to a row between the Association of University Teachers (Scotland) and...
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Return to the RAE
The past few issues of The THES have witnessed early signs of a return to obsessive concern with an oncoming research assessment exercise. Some of my time recently has been spent travelling, and it...
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Return to the RAE
An article by Alison Goddard (THES, December 11) covers our interim report on interdisciplinarity and the research assessment exercise. Unfortunately, the article misunderstands our research and...
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Firm footing for earth
Your coverage of the proposed closure of the department of earth sciences at the University of Sheffield (THES, December 4) fails to mention that the aim of restructuring is to position students and...
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Bright ideas
Celia Hampton's point that an academic paper can be used to found a patent application is an important one (THES, October 23). It means that an academic can establish his and/or his institution's...
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Grim and bear it
Students will be the losers with the redistribution of Oxbridge college fees, says Robert Stevens. Last week the Department for Education and Employment, in the best spirit of Christmas, issued its...
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Why I... think British museums should hand back their loot
Reader in contemporary cultural studies, University of Central Lancashire As a Glaswegian and an American studies lecturer, I was delighted at the recent decision by Glasgow City Museums to return a...
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Brushes with avian friends
The Life of Birds
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Free and energetic villeins
The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval England - The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Middle Ages, Volume Two: 950-1250
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In search of elusive fragments of death
Fatal Protein
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Japan's campus nurseries of power
An Empire of Schools
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Origins of the protection of fellow species
Animals on the Agenda - Animal Rights
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Patents that humble ethics
The Biotech Century - Clones and Clones