Mergers, marriages and unions
Your leader identifies well the problems created by the failure to unify the two parts of the higher education service, even though the historical origin of the separation is clear. There is, however...
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Knight of the false table
Peter Knight's table of funding per part-time student (THES, February 16) is based on false comparisons. He correctly points out that the volume measure for part-time students treats a two-hour-per-...
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Paper tiger roars again
It is quite natural for Damien Keown (THES, February 9 "Caxton: is he dead or merely resting?") to remark, as have other reviewers of the book, on the irony that a "subversive proposal" for paperless...
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Dream signing for Harvard
Henry Louis Gates, the literary critic and New Yorker writer, called it the "coup of the coups" when Harvard University finally poached William Julius Wilson from the University of Chicago. Professor...
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Blarney obscures peace process
Your editorial "Study The Question" (THES, February 16) encouraging a role for academia in the resolution of the conflict in Northern Ireland was at once both admirable and depressing. You were...
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Spirit moves
If your diarist (THES, February 16, Antithesis) wishes to exalt religious fervour among the Christian sects at Leicester University, he should at least get the facts right. The events diary in...
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A rocky path for 'roll-over option'
Don't," said a particularly perceptive member of our university senate during a sombre debate on funding last week, "don't let us be trapped into thinking that there is no alternative to locally...
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The colour of Intelligence
Hans Eysenck defends his right his right to speak. Hitler banned IQ testing, "becauseit was Jewish", Stalin banned it "because it was bourgeois". Now Wiley have reneged on a contract to publish Chris...
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Change out of Africa
In spite of its considerable achievements in the past three decades, the University of ABC finds itself in a precarious situation." Thus begins many a report by the World Bank or other external...
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Don's Diary
Friday. An early morning trip from Blackheath to Norwich. At the university printers I take delivery of two boxes of my "bare hands" monograph on Fermat's last theorem, published by the Mathematics...
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Slipping to unfreedom
I do not believe grade inflation comes from within institutions (THES, April 19). I have experienced external examiners deciding that we "under mark" and substantially raising our grades, lifting...
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Slipping to unfreedom
The enthusiasm to define the essence of "graduateness", identify the sine qua non of the degree grade, and establish the panel of guardians of all that is unalloyed about the gold standard of the...
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Cut but not dried
May I appeal for clarity over the term "efficiency"? In one short article (THES, April 19) we have "efficiency gains", "efficiency squeezes" and "efficiency cuts". These terms appear to be used...
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Tussle over Tucson
Aisling Irwin's article (THES, April 12) gave the misleading impression that the talks hosted by Qinetics International were set up to counteract the Tucson "Towards the Science of Consciousness"...
