Thinking like a man is good for girls
Changes in Oxford University's marking system to accommodate a more 'women-friendly' approach will discourage risk-takers, says Jennifer Davey Finals. That one word can drive me into a state of panic...
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Bigger, better and autonomy intact
ACROSS the British system of higher education there is a deeply-held conviction that academic freedom - the capacity to pursue ideas, including uncomfortable ideas, wherever they lead - is...
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In the dock for art
I AM writing on behalf of the steering committee of the Standing Conference of Arts and Social Sciences, a body whose members are deans of faculties and representatives of subject associations in...
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Long live the viva
Ewan Gillon's assertion (THES, February 20) that the viva is purely a traditional torture for graduate students conveniently ignores some of the essential elements of the PhD. The very essence of a...
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Partners in progress
I WAS surprised by the negative tone of the article on the Further Education Funding Council's excellent report on collaborative provision (THES, March 6). The report shows that the quality of...
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Science friction
We enjoyed the article on Carl Djerassi ("Thrills, Spills and Pills" THES, March 6), but were intrigued by his distinction between "science-in-fiction", which he writes, and "science fiction", which...
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Scrutinise promotions
IT IS to be hoped that the decision by the visitor to reopen a grievance case at the University of York in relation to unsatisfactory promotion procedures will lead to a thorough review of this...
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What is knowledge?
Stephen Howe ("Blinded by Blackness", THES, February ) raises important questions about Afrocentrism that require fuller analysis to reappraise the nature of knowledge per se. However, the view he...
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Founding fathers' fever
Given that I am writing a young people's biography of Tom Paine, and our daughter has been accepted to Thomas Jefferson's University of Virginia, I may be overly attuned to American revolutionary...
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Don's Diary
Monday After three weeks on board the German research vessel, Polarstern, we arrive at Drescher Inlet, a 20-kilometre crack in the Riiser-Larsen ice shelf 400 kilometres from the British Antarctic...
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Mixed blessings in a working Budget
HOW will next week's Budget affect higher education? Will it be "stop" or will it be "go"? Our productivity levels would make any chancellor of the exchequer green with envy if it could be reflected...
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Grants
University of Birmingham Charities (continued from last week) Dr B. Levine and Professors S. Perry and J. Coote, Pounds 110,684 from British Heart Foundation (analysis of the molecular mechanisms of...
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Fact file
The Higher Education Statistics Agency's findings for 1995/96 reveal that: * 1.5 per cent of UK first degree graduates became self-employed * 42 per cent going into self-employment were female * 58...
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Whinge factor
Please get in touch all those of you out there who have been beneficiaries of government education policy. As we said last week, we need your help to counteract accusations by David Blunkett that we...
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Lecturers expected to vote for action
Modern languages lecturers at the University of Northumbria were expected to vote in favour of industrial action this week in protest against the ending of short-term contracts for three part-time...