Don't ask, don't get
When the vice chancellor of an Irish university ran into a prominent alumnus, he asked him a question that had been bothering him for some time. "I heard you gave a major gift to another university...
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Flying kites for adult learners
This is adult learning week. A wide range of events, activities, open days and media programmes have been taking place throughout the country to help to focus attention on adult learning. What is...
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Don's Diary'
TUESDAY. The invitation came out of the blue. A photograph of grimy old houses in a grey street. One of the buildings, towering over the others, is crowned by one large and two smaller golden cupolas...
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NVQs and the innovators
May I clarify the concept of "innovation" as it affects NVQs, which was commented on in the letters by Swindlehurst and Larcombe (THES, May 12) and by Carter (May 5). Innovation is not the same as...
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Is natural selection the sole driver of evolution at the level of genes?
Steven Rose: Evolution is a fact; natural selection is a theory about how evolution occurs. But there are many factors that lead to evolutionary change and natural selection - and competition for...
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Lost meanings in a dying language
Having written a grammar and a phonology of an extant unwritten European language, I found David Charter's piece (THES, April 21) of interest. Istro Rumanian is spoken by fewer than 1,000 natives of...
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The stuff of dreams
Sigmund Freud's ideas may be somewhat discredited, but still we dream. What are dreams for really? And what is the future of oneirology, the study of dreams? Anthony Stevens, a well-known analyst,...
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Fears for French institute
Accreditation for nearly two-thirds of post-masters education research diplomas risk non-renewal this year in French universities. The routine springtime review of research diplomas, diplomes d'...
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Aisling Irwin describes the split in biology over natural selection
Walk into a bookshop and you cannot avoid the apocalyptic claim that Darwinism is about to crumble to the ground. But ask almost any biologist and you will be told that Darwinism has never been so...
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Bred in the bone?
This summer The THES will be exploring the intellectual impact of the new Darwinism. Here, Aisling Irwin describes how these ideas are having an effect beyond biology, while overleaf Brian Goodwin...
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Third Age targets to end myth of the poor old dears
Your leader, "Neglected and patronised" (THES, May 12), helpfully draws attention to the importance for older people of adult education, and especially of the non-certificated provision which is...
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Tax sweetener sour for employers
Dominic Cadbury, as an officer of the CBI, is clearly not a disinterested observer of the debate on higher education funding. In previous generations the same professional employees would mostly lack...
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Tax sweetener sour for employers
Am I alone in finding Dominic Cadbury's arguments on funding (THES, May 12) lacking logic? He says that employers pay twice for higher education; through contributions to general taxation and "...
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Fertile ideas with bald concepts
Jon Turney asserts in his review (THES, May 12) that he has at least one sentence which is non-contentious as it is based on "an incontrovertible biological fact". Perhaps he is optimistic. A new...
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Art of the possible rules imitations of the mind
David Salt falls into the same trap as Roger Penrose when attempting to understand connectionist software, when he suggests that the algorithms are a limitation to computer systems simulating the...