What's good for the customer
Since its inception, The Times' Good University Guide has been eagerly read and heavily criticised. On the one hand, potential undergraduate students and their advisers have welcomed a simple guide...
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Lottery oversight
On April 24, we published a table of lottery awards. It failed to include the Warwick Arts Centre, which is formally part of the university. It won Pounds 3.14 million in 1996 for development.
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Evolutionary workers' party
It is time the left embraced Darwin, forgot Utopia and accepted there are some things about human nature that cannot be changed. Peter Singer urges a new manifesto on the left. The tragic irony of...
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Ziggy in an age without stardust
Modernity's relentless drive for the ultimate answer produced the Holocaust, according to Zygmunt Bauman. But will our postmodern age with its rejection of the illusion of total solutions avoid such...
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Nice little learners
Most students are seriously poor. One or two, however, are very, very rich. So why are they bothering with a degree? Harriet Swain reports. John Bennett is juggling journalists - or rather, his PR...
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No more heroes any more?
Alan Shearer will probably be canonised in Newcastle if he scores the winner in the FA Cup Final tomorrow. But, as Richard Holt explains, working-class heroism is not what it used to be. Will...
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Saddam Hussein's city of the damned
Saddam Hussein's gassing of Halabja in 1988 was the worst chemical weapons attack ever. Geneticist Christine Gosden went there and was appalled by people's continuing agony and by how little we know...
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Japan's overdue overhaul
British academics who need cheering up about the state of our universities might glance nine time zones to the east. There, Japan is grappling with university problems that would make our hardest-...
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Bring many minds to bear on policy
A year into the Labour administration there is still a sense of excitement for academics interested in public policy. It arises from a feeling that the government's agenda is not yet fully set, a...
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Agencies hold regional key
WITH a hint of irony, perhaps, the Dearing committee report, in its chapter on the local and regional roles of higher education, concluded that, compared with the rest of the United Kingdom, "in...
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Sense and sexuality
Mike Weaver suggests that the Mapplethorpe book be confined to a reserve bookroom, calling for prudence in the handling of what he calls "pornography" and saying that it ought to be kept away from...
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Habgood, have faith
Apropos Dr Hagbood's comments on the implausibility of the Exodus (Review of The Cambridge Companion to the Bible, THES, April 24): it is true that a column of two million people, two abreast, at...
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Stressing the irrelevant
The results of the Association of University Teachers stress survey (THES, May 1) confirm the futility of these exercises and their role in trivialising the problems faced by many staff in higher...
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Researchers are assets, not burdens
JAMES Bowen (THES, Letters, April 24) displays the sort of views that many of us had hoped had expired with the demise of the previous government. He mistakenly treats individual research grants as...
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Views of a film-maker
I HAVE read the review of my book Indian Popular Cinema (co-authored with Wimal Dissanayake) with mixed feelings (THES, April 10). Nasreen Munni Kabbir's comments have more to do with a book on...