Learning to love the dome
What is it about the Millennium Dome that makes hearts sink, instead of rising as Peter Mandelson would wish? It has its humorous aspects, like the fact that a part of the structure for spiritual...
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How to commune with Nature
It should be easy to find out about science. After all, open publication of results is an article of faith for most researchers. But in practice it is almost impossible. There is so much published...
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What price lifelong learning?
We have superb universities and colleges that help maintain our position as a world leader in technology, finance, design, manufacturing and creative industries." The government's consultative...
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After flawed consultation, flawed results
As the Higher Education Funding Council for England starts considering responses to its questions on the future of research assessment, John Pratt says damage limitation is the best that can be hoped...
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Opportunities to live and learn
David Blunkett calls for a national debate aimed at creating a renaissance in adult learning The Green paper on lifelong learning, The Learning Age, published this week, recognises that in the 21st...
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Schooled in Islam
Shabbir Akhtar is wrong to generalise that the ulama are mere "slaves of the Book" (THES, February 13). For over a year, until last August, I worked in the Library of Congress's Cairo field office,...
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Maturity matters
Your front page painted a depressing pictures of applications by mature students to higher education (THES, February 13). Lucy Cavendish is a Cambridge College for mature women and we are saddened by...
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Maturity matters
Congratulations on highlighting the problems faced by mature students. The Dearing report did not consider the impact of fees on mature students despite their numbers in the undergraduate population...
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Fears of a merger
I WAS elected general secretary of the lecturers' union Natfhe by a 60:40 vote on a platform of one union for all lecturers, researchers and academic-related staff. Such a union would be able to...
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Fears of a merger
In 1996 as a national negotiator for my then union I supported and took an active part in industrial action, as inferred by Jill Jones of Natfhe (THES, February 20), but I regretted its necessity....
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PhDs' best deterrent
Debts discourage students from taking PhDs (Research pull-out, THES, February 20) for several reasons. First, the graduate job market has seen salaries and demand rise, thus making postgraduate study...
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Professors call for fee and grant rethink
WE WRITE as university academics and others to express our grave concern at the government's abandonment of the principle of free higher education. The existence of a funding crisis is not in dispute...
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Don's diary
Friday A big presentation to give in Buenos Aires next Wednesday: 8,000 people. I have been invited by the Organisation of Services for Company Directors, a medicare foundation, to talk about work...
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Iraq war tips from Mr Cooper's book
By the time you read this, you may know which way the world went. Either the crisis that has dominated the airwaves, news-print and conversation will have been defused or western hardware will be...
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Tagore's lamp to the mind
It is not often that one accepts an invitation to deliver an address and finds it a life-altering experience. But my visit to Visva-Bharati, an Indian university founded by the great Indian mystic...