Peeved 'retiree' off to US
DISGUSTED with a "stupid rule" which is forcing him to retire, the French scientist who first isolated the HIV virus in 1983 is to head a new research centre on Aids and other "emergent diseases" at...
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UNL left SCITT
Your In Brief item headed "UNL consortium's teaching won't do" (THES, May 2) was so brief that it gives a very misleading account. The consortium of seven schools which was referred to was headed and...
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Tables turn for German universities
GERMAN universities have been gripped by league table fever as the news magazine Focus publishes an exhaustive survey of the best universities in 20 different subjects over a nine-week series....
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Solid base for Battle's battle
The last time there was a Labour government there was a Department of Industry with a Secretary of State and three other ministers, and a Department of Energy with the same array of ministerial...
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Turn back the clock on overseas fees
Following the change of government it is timely to reflect on overseas student trends since 1980. Latest figures from the Department for Education and Employment show that since 1982 the number of...
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CAT among the pigeons
Credit-based funding looks set to become the panacea for the otherwise intractable difficulty of finding a fairer way of subsidising higher and further education. It is a good idea. The present...
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Getting on with the neighbours
How to shape HE: John Goddard highlights key issues for the new Government There is hardly any aspect of the public policy debate about the future shape of higher education that does not have a...
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1964 revisited: lessons from the history of Mr Poly
How to shape HE: John Pratt highlights key issues for the new Government A Labour government is elected after years out of office; it faces the problem of accommodating vastly increased numbers of...
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Fine work by Figes
High-profile accusations of plagiarism may make good journalists' copy but retailing the allegations made by Richard Pipes against Orlando Figes ("Plagiarise . . . only be sure to call it research",...
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Fine work by Figes
Both the main article (by Andrew Robinson) and the inset (by Hannah Baldock) give undeserved publicity to aspersions cast on the work of Orlando Figes. His recent study of the Russian revolution...
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Why I voted Conservative
Fred Inglis' criticises my reasons for voting Conservative (THES Letters, April 25). First, my little piece may have been frivolous, but it was not meant to be funny. The gist of my argument was that...
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Unfair comparison
I write on behalf of Southampton Institute to express amazement that, in your editorial of May 2 you should draw parallels between the regrettable situation at La Sainte Union, Southampton, and the...
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Unfair comparison
Here is a tale of two colleges in one city. One college is monitored by Nottingham Trent University and audited by the HEFCE (Southampton Institute) and the other is having its accreditation removed...
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Unfair comparison
LSU was not treated unfairly or uniquely. The Teacher Training Agency's withdrawal of accreditation procedures are clear and simple - and open to public scrutiny. All the procedures were followed to...
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Hobhouse was first
Distinguished as Chelly Halsey's career has been, John Honey (THES, May 9) erroneously accords him the achievement of being Britain's first professor of sociology. The first established chair of...