The grey matter
In his lively and interesting account of the discussion on ageing between the Royal Society and the British Academy (THES, May 23), Jon Turney gets one or two things wrong. He perpetuates the error...
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True course of action
You state (THES, May 30) that the School of Education 'is to withdraw from undergraduate courses in secondary education". There is no such formal recommendation. There is a large-scale consultation...
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Untested by war or exam
Is it correct to refer to Bill Clinton as a "graduate" of Oxford? (THES May 16). I thought that Clinton did not pass his exams. Or, if you accept the more charitable (and no doubt doctor-spun)...
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More helpings of alphabet soup
The recent announcement of the chairman of the new Qualifications and Curriculum Authority seems to confirm that in this area at least we can expect continuity of policy rather than change. The new...
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First impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a novelist who died in 1991: "Gerald Middleton was a man of mildly but persistent depressive...
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Appointments
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council The president of the board of trade has appointed the following to serve on the council: Wendy Hall, professor of computer science in the department...
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Chairs
University of Aberdeen Graeme Simpson, formerly business analyst and business opportunities group manager with Esso Exploration and Production UK Ltd. has been appointed to the first Schlumberger...
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Honorary degrees
University of Wales DLitt: Anthony Conran, poet, translator and literary critic; Geraint Gruffydd, emeritus professor, director of the University of Wales centre for advanced Welsh and Celtic studies...
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Jag man sees the green light
Car design guru James Randle tells Kam Patel how his taste for speed has been overtaken by concerns about pollution of the planet James Neville Randle leans back in his chair and laughs as he...
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Necessary coupling
The Origin of Language - The Language Connection
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Errant might
Trial of Strength
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Prompted response?
Bosnia by Television
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Why crystal Ball failed to shine
George Ball
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The land of the glum and free
The State of the Nation
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Speaking Volumes: Frederick Bodmer's The Loom of Language
On Frederick Bodmer's The Loom of Language I have always had a thing about collecting books, encouraged no doubt by my father who, from an early age, would take me around junk shops and second-hand...