Gold service for payers
It seems to be an assumption underlying the cross-party consensus on higher education funding that students with differential purchasing power will allocate themselves by time-honoured invisible hand...
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Brutalising experiments
In his article, "The age of reasoning" (THES, September 29), Kenneth Boyd envisages a scenario whereby an individual is temporarily removed from this world and must decide whether the use of animals...
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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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Lively minds and smart people
Darrel Ince questions the practical value of the methodologies developed by software engineering and indicates applied mathematics as an alternative paradigm. A more radical, and more satisfying,...
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Lively minds and smart people
While agreeing with every other point in Darrel Ince's article, I would question his suggestion that TeX is not based on software engineering nor validated. Formal methods of the sort that Ince has...
