Odd friends
I was surprised to see that Birkbeck College is advertising for a "Nestle Lectureship in the Politics of Development" (THES, October 6). Presumably this will involve extensive research into the...
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Don's Diary
TUESDAY. Watching the sun set from 25,000 feet over Moscow on my way to Irkutsk, central southern Siberia, I find myself trying, somewhat unsuccessfully, to put to the back of my mind a recent...
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Rocked foundation
Your report "Building Collapse" (THES, September 22) which relates to the closure of the BSc (Hons) construction economics degree at Southampton Institute is inaccurate. There were 36 students...
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Case for pay body
The article "Pay structure delayed" (THES, October 6) clearly indicates the wide diversity of views in the universities and colleges regarding the necessary restructuring of negotiating bodies in...
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Admission of an A-level problem
It has been a long hard summer in the recruitment office. The hostile media reports made a complex task even more complicated and so much ill-informed comment has been damaging. How much so will...
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Fragile figure in eye of storm
Retired Harvard professor Annemarie Schimmel tells Jennie Brookman why she defended Islamic fury against Salman Rushdie. Annemarie Schimmel seems an unlikely person to have caused the biggest...
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Old scripts, new insights
Are hieroglyphs making a comeback? Andrew Robinson examines ancient and modern writing. Writing is among the greatest inventions of human history. Yet it is a skill most writers take for granted. We...
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A tongue-tied time warp
British foreign language learning policy lags behind the rest of Europe and must be updated, argues Robert Clark. As I took plane to Stockholm for the European Commission's conference on "Language...
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A class sister act
American feminist icon bell hooks talks to Sian Griffiths about race, gender and her rise from humble Kentucky roots. I have borne five children and I seen 'em mos all sold off into slavery, and when...
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Rebel MP lost faith over threat to quality
Alan Howarth, who crossed the floor of the Commons to join Labour this week, is the second ex-further and higher education minister to say his disillusionment with Conservative politics was linked to...
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Net loss is a big gain
Joe Sinyor welcomes the end of the Net Book Agreement. The end of the Net Book Agreement is good news for academic books - for their authors, their readers, and their booksellers. Last week, the NBA...
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Buy a book, win a burger?
Confusion reigned in the book trade this week after the collapse of the 100-year-old Net Book Agreement. The decision by publishers and high street booksellers to pull out of the NBA has meant the...
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Singing coach
Watching the car parks has always been a handy way of tracking who's briefing who. So some interest should be attached to the sighting last week of a coach, billed as being on loan to outsize tenor...
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Merger plan for lecturers and teachers to be halted
Moves that could lead to a merger between the Association of University Teachers and the University Lecturers' Association of the Educational Institute of Scotland are set to be stifled today by the...
