Recognising institutional racism is only the first small step in trying to eradicate it, argues John Fernandes The Stephen Lawrence inquiry was hailed as "radical", "momentous", "the new millennium...
With less than a week to go before the elections, Scotland's higher education institutions have apparently decided to welcome devolution with open arms, queuing up to offer their expertise to the new...
Homi Bhabha ("Hybrid Bhabha", THES, March 19) did not deliver an objectionable lecture to a crowd of Amnesty activists. He was giving one of the 1999 Oxford Amnesty Lectures. Our annual series...
Your article "The private consultancy work dilemma", (THES, April 23) about payments to Oxford lecturers in management studies is inaccurate. In certain cases, lecturers may be paid Pounds 15,000...
THES reporters examine the latest plans from the Quality Assurance Agency. External examiners Quality chiefs are preparing to recruit an army of "academic reviewers" to check whether external...
The debate about league tables is critical. It is almost, but not quite, correct to argue that "what counts cannot always be tabulated" (THES, April 23). The vital word "easily" ought to be added at...
Hooray for the egalitarianism of The THES in compiling the list of "Top institutions in 70 subjects" (THES, April 23), so that the academic world realises that higher education colleges can exceed...
I realise that tables are meant only as snapshots, nevertheless, omissions can mislead. In the research funding league poster (THES, April 23), a high placing was recorded for the "University of...
On the same day that you carried league tables for universities, you published a report showing that higher education is to be left out of the "radical reform" of post-compulsory education (THES,...
David Blunkett's proposals ("Make work part of study, THES, April 23) that humanities students should undertake work experience and a module "related to enterprise, work and the potential for...
Having read David Blunkett's article, I must comment on a number of points. I do so on the basis of many years' experience working with and advising undergraduates on both vocational and academic...
David Blunkett's announcement that every student ought to have a period of work experience is warmly welcomed. However, the parameters need to be identified, and much investment needs to take place...
David Cannadine lambasted the research assessment exercise for "inflating the quantity of output" and "deflating the quality" ("Flaws of supply with no demand", THES, April 23). He said that a "...
Where is the evidence of super-abundance and "frenzied energy" in the figures quoted by David Cannadine? Do they not simply indicate that while the historians who actually did publish in 1989...
Your article "Brits reluctant to study abroad" (THES, April 16) was misleading. It referred only to Socrates/ Erasmus exchanges, which represent less than half of the residence abroad that UK...