Letter: Maths cock-ups count
Mathematics A-level incidents these days seem to be mirroring my university experiences. In my finals, I was faced with a seemingly straightforward question that I couldn't do. I now know that it...
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Letter: Pleasure without pain
The view expressed in "Stuck through with spears and smiling" (Books, THES , January 4) is not correct about the human appreciation of a work of art. Any good artist tries to express the emotions -...
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Letter: Quality assumption
I'm glad Peter Williams wants a proper debate on the meaning of "quality" and "accountability", (Opinion, THES , January 11). In fact such a debate exists already, though it has been ignored by the...
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Letter: Blue thoughts
Perhaps David Walker is too dismissive of Michael Oakeshott's influence on the Tories ("A traditionalist with the eye of a sceptic", THES , January 18). Anyone reading Iain Duncan Smith's "vision"...
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Letter: If it ain't broke...
The Welsh Assembly's education committee has defined a vision for higher education with which no one could disagree. It is a pity that some of its recommendations are so manifestly ill-suited to the...
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Letter: Value in the old 1
Sad that The THES should base its national "access elite" league table ( THES , January 18) solely on "young" (ie under 21) undergraduate entrants. Mature entrants comprised 22 per cent of the 1999-...
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Letter: Value in the old 2
The percentage of any university's students that come from lower social groups cannot be measured against a national norm as most students from these groups study locally. Recent research...
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Letter: Feel the quality, not the volume 2
The vice-chancellors of Lancaster, Umist and York argue for a research assessment exercise league table based on total staff ("Rankled by rankings", Letters, THES , January 18). This is not...
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Letter: Feel the quality, not the volume 1
The vice-chancellors of Lancaster, Umist and York correctly point out that research league tables are usually based on misleading assumptions about staff not submitted to the RAE. Such people are...
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Letter: Feel the quality, not the volume 3
Surely the underpinning problem with RAE league-table construction, or at least the particular problem identified by the vice-chancellors, is that we are trying to describe and rank, using a single...
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Letter: Feel the quality, not the volume 4
The Lancaster vice-chancellor and his colleagues are right that it is almost impossible to calculate an accurate league table of RAE performance in the face of the strategic non-submission of active...
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Letter: Feel the quality, not the volume 5
The size effect in the RAE results ("How the 'small world' effect skews results," THES , January 18) relates to unit of assessment size, not department size. In the five largest units, each panel...
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Letter: Interview hell
Peter Hartley ("Interview success is virtually guaranteed", THES , January 18) offers an interesting training for candidates facing an interview. But it assumes a rationality that is not always...
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'Pugh's book is full of errors'
On June 11 2000, The Observer published an article with the headline "Diary reveals lesbian love trysts of suffragette leaders". It referred to Martin Pugh's forthcoming book, which the newspaper...
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'Purvis's claims damage herself'
It is good policy not to criticise books on the basis of newspaper articles written 18 months before publication. In The Pankhursts I do not say that Emmeline or Christabel Pankhurst were lesbians;...