Addictive cannabis
Professor Heather Ashton does us a considerable service by drawing attention to the much-neglected adverse properties of cannabis ("From hashish to ashes?" THES, April 17). Recent basic research,...
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Quality and uselessness
Stewart Sutherland (Opinion, April 17) is right, you are wrong. High-quality teaching or research can be achieved only by standards set by those working in institutions, not by external inspectors....
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Quality and uselessness
Your correspondent Bill Holdsworth ("Utrecht inspired by Oxbridge example", THES, April 3) wrote some kind words on the Universiteit Vrij van Nut, which organises courses for students of Utrecht...
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Quality and uselessness
It is good to find Peter Mann ("Trust to your tacit knowledge", Research, THES, April 17) distinguishing between "explicit knowledge" and "tacit knowledge"; but why stop there? It is important, too,...
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Priorities for reform
What does Michael Scott ("An open letter to David Melville", THES, March ) think universities have to offer well-managed further education colleges in terms of financial management and quality...
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Lessons in teaching
James Wright is correct ("False premise makes for wrong policy", THES, April 17). There is no evidence that one-off funding allocations will lead to lasting quality improvements. At best, they lead...
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Fixed-term whingeing
While it is accepted that fixed-term contracts of employment should not be a substitute for proper career management, personnel procedures and such, without them there would be considerably fewer...
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Long drugs trials deliver the facts
If Julia Hinde has reported Dr Chris Palmer correctly ("Trials with too much error", THES, April 17), he believes that it is the failure of trialists to abandon traditional statistical approaches in...
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Prudence over porn
Regarding the Mapplethorpe book and the University of Central England ("The naked and the damned", THES, April 10), surely this was a matter neither of obscenity nor pornography but discretion. Why...
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French is no longer de rigueur
MOROCCAN universities are bracing themselves for a major language shake-up. This is taking place at a time when higher education is in dire straits, largely because of the hasty language policies...
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When is prying in the public interest?
FOR several weeks, much of Britain has been discussing tabloid reports of contemptuous remarks made by two drunken directors of Newcastle United football club in a brothel in Marbella. The two were...
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Don's Diary
Monday The most recent contribution of the Natural History Museum to helping the public understand science is a Fossil Roadshow to be broadcast on Friday and Saturday. This is supposed to be a kind...
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Grants
University of Birmingham Research contracts (continued) Dr P. James-Roxby and Mr R. Chance, Pounds 60,620 from TCD and Pounds 19,500 from Thomas Walker Ltd. (introduction of ultrasonic and solar-...
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Honorary degrees
University of Manchester Institute of Science & Technology/ Manchester Metropolitan University The universities have jointly awarded an honorary MSc to Alex Ferguson, manager of Manchester...
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Promotions
Dartington College of Arts Diana Theodores, senior lecturer in theatre, has been appointed to a readership. She is a former lecturer in theatre and movement at the Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity...