Ironing Chile's wrinkles
I would like to add some information to your article "Chile Irons Out Market Wrinkles" (THES, December 8). The Chilean higher education system underwent great changes between 1981 and 1990. Some of...
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Chocolate box fantasy
If I were part of the ethnic minority population living in the Birmingham area, I would say that the quality of the maps at Cadbury World (pace Catherine Hall, THES March 8) was positively the least...
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Fair panels?
The Research Assessment Exercise will affect the distribution of considerable sums of public money, and involve issues of fairness to institutions and ultimately to individuals. Last time the...
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Plea for a sight and sound archive
Sir Anthony Kenny's article recommending the extension of legal deposit to the British Library to include non-print materials (THES, Multimedia Supplement, March 8) prompts a further suggestion. If...
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Pigs might fly all way home
Man with pig kidney is a 'long way' off" (THES, March 8). I suppose that's because he is going "wee wee wee" all the way home? ELIZABETH M. BATEY Whitegate, Northwich, Cheshire
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Critics convey confusing criticisms
Gordon Johnson's personal statement (THES, March 1) presents Cambridge University Press as holding off forces of "intimidation" that threaten from the outside. My recall is that it is the press's...
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Teams track school violence
A flare-up of violence in and around French schools has put the spotlight on a French research programme commissioned a year ago by the ministries of education and of the interior, writes Stella...
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German idea to charge quality fee
German students would have to pay a DM2,000 a year (Pounds 885) "quality tax" under the latest financial proposal for solving the country's higher education funding deficit. The policy body's Centre...
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Waiting for Dearing will take too long
In her otherwise excellent article on the task facing Sir Ron Dearing (THES, March 8), Lucy Hodges misses an important distinction. While it may be true that the review has bought time for the...
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Do the genes have it?
It is easier to destroy trust than it is to build it up - a principle coined by the social scientists as the "asymmetry of trust" some time ago. Someone ought to coin a similar phrase about the...
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Mind the plumage
It was said of Edmund Burke, the 18th- century political thinker, that he pitied the plumage while forgetting the dying bird. A thinking Conservative, he would have appreciated the Labour party's...
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Vilnius censures private colleges
Private universities and colleges in Lithuania are violating the law, a parliamentary committee in Vilnius has ruled. There are at least seven such institutions in the country, ranging from the...
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Student vanguard faces British barricade
A pioneering group of 16 first and second-year students on a degree course with a British university have become a total anomaly by studying entirely outside the country. The students are taking a...
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V-cs in NZ lobby for more funds
Vice chancellors will lobby hard for more funding in the run-up to New Zealand's first election under its new polling system. Leslie Holborow, chairman of the vice chancellors' committee, said that...
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Reign in Spain has changed
In the wake of the recent general elections, academics in Spain are following political developments with a keen interest. Many are trying to gauge what the coming of a right-wing government, after...