Letter: Quality refrain creates discord 3
If universities are the "concert halls of the intellect", further education colleges are its rock clubs. Quality in further education is about teaching and learning, and quality assurance is about...
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Letter: Quality refrain creates discord 4
Peter Williams says the debate on quality assurance consists of "mediocre cliches" and "low-quality non-thought". His article continues this ignoble tradition. We read about paymasters and pipers (...
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Letter: Myths of peace
Raymond Cohen's review of Edward Said's The End of the Peace Process recycles two myths about the Oslo agreement ("Books, THES , January 11). The first is that it was the rightwing government of...
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Letter: Federal factions 1
In the Cardiff-centric National Assembly, it is easy to forget the contribution that the four university colleges of Wales at Swansea, Bangor, Aberystwyth and Lampeter have made to Wales for more...
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Letter: Federal factions 2
Wales needs a federal university. The vision that established the University of Wales was strategically sound in 1893, and the issue of making the best use of inevitably limited resources to create a...
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Letter: Rankled by rankings
There are two major statistical problems in constructing league tables of research excellence using the research assessment exercise results ( THES , December 14). The first is in assigning numerical...
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Letter: Ethical balances 1
I believe in academic freedom and a researcher's right to study controversial topics ("Don't rock the research boat," THES , January 11), but no researcher has the right to assume that people exist...
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Letter: Ethical balances
I doubt if many members of self-styled "ethics" committees would know cant from Kant or soccer from Socrates. If all they offer is superfluous and often amateur advice on research methodology, why...
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Letter: Oxford's welcome
Godfrey Keller, a lecturer in economics at Oxford University, says he would have liked an induction course (Analysis, THES , January 4). The university provides a handbook about Oxford, its policies...
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St Aldate's to Old Trafford
Are the worlds of Oxbridge and Manchester really so different? Terry Eagleton on swapping the dreaming spires for the ship canal. Last year, I moved to a post at Manchester University after almost 40...
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Gagged by the flag and other patriot games
Stephen Phillips reports how the treatment of critics of the US has sparked rows over academic freedom. Catherine Lutz recalls encountering many diverse campus viewpoints in the wake of September 11...
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US hate: a designer prejudice for our time
Clive Christie argues that anti-Americanism is a betrayal of intellectual integrity. The Afghan crisis has concentrated attention on a phenomenon that is influential in academic, cultural and media...
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A traditionalist with the eye
A hundred years after his birth, essayist and thinker Michael Oakeshott might hold the key to reviving a beleaguered Tory Party, argues David Walker. If Isaiah Berlin's posthumous reputation has been...
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Uniting a nation with bridge and brochure
Bosnia is not an obvious holiday destination, but Chris Bunting reports on a scheme that aims to use tourism to heal the country's ethnic rifts. On the morning of November 9 1993, a tank shell...
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Link to Corrected Version of Amended draft decision on the rules for the participation of undertakings, research centres and universities in the implementation of the framework programme 2002-2006 of
Brussels, 16 January 2002 Amended proposal for a COUNCIL DECISION concerning the rules for the participation of undertakings, research centres and universities in the implementation of the framework...