Literary estates are imposing restrictive copyrights that amount to censorship, says a new generation of academics. Chris Bunting reports The faint voice on a crackling transatlantic telephone line...
Memorials to war are usually monuments that are seen as acts of closure. But what is the appropriate way to commemorate the continuing process of peace? asks Paul Gough I thought we had quite enough...
The United Nations failed spectacularly over the Iraq war. This crisis could be the best time to reform it and make it relevant, argues Meghnad Desai On the day after the first anniversary of 9/11,...
In this time of war, we must reclaim from celebrities our right to make significant gestures and voice opinions in the public arena, argues Alan Read The cliché "theatre of war" has been tripping off...
When Howard Davies, chairman of the FSA, decided to take up the post of director of the LSE, the City was 'stunned' but, then again, this regular bloke often has that effect, says Terry Philpot...
Whatever happened to the good old days of dons mowing the campus lawn in their pyjamas? Adrian Mourby charts the decline of that great academic institution - the eccentric According to a report in...
Why has The THES got its sharpened teeth into the Institute for Learning and Teaching in ÌÇÐÄVlog? You are always printing negative articles such as Helen Beebee's "Why I" ( THES, March 28)....
Helen Beebee is horrified that ILTHE accreditation has made new lecturer training the equivalent of ten weeks' work. Can you imagine members of any other profession presumptuous enough to think that...
One wonders what the ILTHE has done to deserve Helen Beebee's criticism? Surely there is enough in common between lecturers in different disciplines to provide common ground in teaching? The ILTHE is...
University lecturer training courses are not generic as Helen Beebee suggests. They are designed for a rich diversity of staff experience. Participants value the opportunity to discuss teaching with...
I spent many years at a "teaching-only" institution with no core funding for research before the research assessment exercise (Letters, THES, March 14). All academics were scholarly, about half...
This month I delivered the manuscript of a new anthology of Max Weber's writings to the publisher. I have been able to pursue the research, scholarship and translation necessary to produce an...
Why is parental attendance at university open days such a problem ("Is mum's push more of a shove?", THES, March 28)? At Strathclyde University, up to a quarter of students are the first generation...
Sarah Nelson claims qualitative researchers are being "patronising and discriminatory" when presenting direct quotes from working-class and less-educated people, because they may contain local...
The only rational, though short-sighted, argument for researchers limiting partners to those in other European Union states would be that the EU is a source of soft money ("European links are...