Urban jumbles
YOUR "ECOCRITICISM" article was valuable and interesting but it repeats the persistent misconception that it is just about "nature writing" (THES, July 4). Since German zoologist Ernst Haeckel coined...
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Lapping it up on sand
OH DEAR - Professor Lapping needs a holiday. His scorn ("thoroughly lower second") was unworthy of him. He has had a hard year; perhaps a fortnight on the beach at Teignmouth with a knotted...
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Keeping up with Welsh
THE SCHOOL of thought that the interests of Welshmen as individuals are best served by the destruction of the Welsh language, of which Christie Davies (THES, July 4) declares himself a member, is of...
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Poor show at access
"TAKE your positions now," proposes The THES (July 11) on the Government's pledge to widen access to universities. I took my position some time back. A year ago, I was head of social sciences at a...
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A right of entry for everyone
DESPITE the advent of mass higher education, access to university remains on the margins. Budget cuts make it difficult to hold the ground already gained, and higher education still serves as a form...
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How teaching has fallen for a big con
THE DEBATE about the relative merits of teaching and research in higher education and how to reward excellent performance is similar to the way people respond to the imaginary incentives they are...
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Bid to boycott the hard sell
Marketing departments are being pressed to take adverts in university directories. Phil Baty reports University marketing heads are calling for a clampdown on publishers of reference directories....
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Exeter rethinks staff losses
Exeter University has revised plans to axe up to 120 staff jobs. Its "restructuring" plan has been rewritten by its academic policy committee, following criticism by senate members. Lecturers' union...
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Exeter University's bid from Millennium Commission turned down
Exeter University's bid for Pounds 33 million from the Millennium Commission to help cover the cost a new campus in Cornwall has been turned down.
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RGO staff plan rescue
A rescue package to save the Royal Greenwich Observatory is being prepared by staff a fortnight after closure plans were announced. The package could mean the 300-year-old RGO stays at its Cambridge...
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Doctorates in House
Huw Richards assesses the members of the new education and science parliamentary committees The science and technology committee can claim to be the best-qualified group in the entire House. Of its...
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Amanda Weaver
(Photograph) - Northern pointes: 21-year-old Amanda Weaver, a third-year student at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds, gave her farewell performance, 'Always the same gesture',...
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Roberts departs as Dearing delivers
Sir Gareth Roberts, the man behind the Dearing report, reflects on two tumultuous years as CVCP chairman to Huw Richards WAITING for Dearing may be this week's universal fate, but Gareth Roberts...
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Graduates dominate select few
Huw Richards assesses the members of the new education and science parliamentary committees Labour's vast 1997 parliamentary intake, with more than 200 new members among the 418 elected on May 1,...
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Nicaraguan student demonstrations
(Photograph) - Firing line: Nicaraguan students aim home-made mortars during violent demonstrations over cuts in university funding and higher fees. Trouble erupted once more despite efforts to...