Huggers' charter is needed
IF THINGS go on like this children are going to be deprived of cuddles; the teaching of young children will be a man-free zone; social workers will become an endangered species and yet more people...
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How can Cinderella join her big sister at the ball?
Emma Westcott hopes the Dearing inquiry will resist the temptation to develop higher education at the expense of its poorer relative THERE are important similarities between the report of the...
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Grounding of a star turn
The Royal Greenwich Observatory could run for ever for a fraction of the cost of the Millennium Experience. So why is it being axed, asks Jasper Wall On July 4 Pathfinder landed on Mars and the...
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Languages are unsung
John Reilly, (THES, July 4), draws our attention to the decline in United Kingdom Erasmus student mobility in the past two years. May I suggest that UK students' low rate of participation may be...
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Whitehead queried
The article by Alan Whitehead, a former staff member at Southampton Institute (THES, July 4), contains several points which are not correct and which reflect adversely on Southampton Institute. It...
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Manage at home
Does anyone know of any seat of higher or further education that uses wholeheartedly the practices that it teaches on its human resources or business courses and is hence well-managed with an...
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Welsh is taken very seriously
I am an Englishman living in England and I do not speak a word of Welsh. None the less, I was appalled by the attack on the Welsh language by Christie Davies (THES, July 4). In his opinion "learning...
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Welsh is taken very seriously
ALTHOUGH I agree with most of the points made by Christie Davies as regards the Welsh language, 1 feel I must take issue with one particular statement. While the assertion "there are no jobs for...
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Dear confused
Anthony Everitt's confused opinions ("Personal View", THESJune 20) as to what it might be that constitutes research and its effects, does not encourage support for the real purpose of his article. I...
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Waste and the land
Despite its sometimes patronising tone, it was good to see Jennifer Wallace's article (THES, July 4) on the emerging environmentalist literary and cultural criticism. But in concentrating so much on...
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Message sender
May I correct two errors of transmission between myself and Lucy Hodges (THES, July 4)? I did not say that half our fellows are women. That will not be true for many years. But recent tutorial...
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Prove it or drop it
When Sir Tim Lankester (Letters, June ) states that moving administration of the loan scheme to the private sector would provide "possibilities of achieving improved efficiencies in operating the...
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Three ways to say no fees
Any proposal to solve the funding crisis by making students pay for their maintenance and tuition fees will run into opposition from millions of parents who want their families to have access to the...
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Don's Diary
Monday Touchdown St John's Newfoundland at 3am after delayed flight from Toronto. Canada's first offshore oil platform, the Hibernia, is about to go on station 200 miles out in the middle of Iceberg...
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Brown's new deal a golden opportunity
WHENTHE subject of unemployment comes up in universities, it is usually related to an academic study or the job prospects of academics. However, two significant developments - the Employment Chapter...