Letter: In brief 2
The article on Nobel prizes, "What does it take to be a consistent winner?" ( THES , December 7) states that "three of the five UK economics winners were from Cambridge". Former staff or students of...
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Letter: In brief 4
Why does Gill Evans (Soapbox, THES , November 30) see anything irregular in one individual's belonging to a number of committees at Cambridge University? In a large further education college, I am...
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Letter: Islamic oversights 1
Stephen Chan gave an incisive commentary on the complex changes taking place in Islam and the possible effects of an emerging world order ("A left too lazy to look the 'other' way", THES , December 7...
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Letter: Islamic oversights 2
Stephen Chan says Samuel Huntington's "clash of civilisations" treatise is "appalling", yet his statement that "by invading Afghanistan, the United States is participating in a clash of civilisations...
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Letter: No satisfaction 1
What are we to make of the proposal to use a first-destinations survey to measure student satisfaction ("Graduates to rate quality", THES , November 23)? The government may wish to rebut criticisms...
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Letter: No satisfaction 2
A survey suggests that only 8 per cent of students "embark on tertiary education with anything approaching a keenness to learn" (Why II, THES , November 23). At last some honesty. As one who was part...
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Letter: Make the effort for all
The report "Disabled student paid settlement by UCLan" (Whistleblowers, THES , December 7) raises the issue of how to close the gap between a university's objectives and what happens when a...
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Leader: Researchers rise to the challenge of excellence
The research assessment exercise results published today are a triumph - and a disaster. They are a triumph because they demonstrate the increasing excellence of research in United Kingdom...
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Life behind closed eyes
Continuing our series on the Big Science Questions, Stephen LaBerge looks at the role dreams play in our conscious and unconscious lives. Every night we enter another world, the world of dreams....
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Divided loyalties
'God will not forsake us.. Muslims will remain on this earth; they will not die out but will spread throughout the world. Judaism will die out. Christianity will die out. Hinduism will die out, and...
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Understanding Uncle Sam: getting to grips with the culture that the British just love to hate
Britain has a tradition of anti-Americanism while embracing much US culture. George McKay ponders this apparent contradiction and its place in American studies. I'm so bored with the USA! I'm so...
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RAE league tables 2001
British university research is the best since records began, according to the outcome of this year’s research assessment exercise.More than 25,000 staff are celebrating the news that they are based...
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Latest news
Universities win copying tribunal An interim decision by the Copyright Tribunal has sided with vice-chancellors’ body Universities UK in almost all its pleas against the Copyright Licensing Agency....
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Latest international news
Police open fire at student demo At least two people were seriously injured when police in Malawi opened fire on student demonstrators protesting against the death in police custody of an outspoken...
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From today's UK papers
Study fuels argument on benefits of arms exports A new Ministry of Defence study on the economic costs and benefits of UK defence exports was yesterday seized upon by both sides of the argument on...