Letter: Unity rules, OK?
Michael Shattock's pronouncements that academics and managers should share governance of universities shocked me deeply ("Call for shared governance", THES , November 2). Does he mean that university...
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Letter: G-whiz, you're smart
Some people are smarter than others. But how unimaginative to be involved in the accountancy of "how much smarter". This g factor "shines through" for Robert Plomin (Features, THES , November 2) like...
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Letter: Some choice facts (1)
Your editorial criticising the Association of University Teachers for "restricting choice" in the election of a new general secretary shows a total lack of understanding of trade union law and equal...
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Letter: Some choice facts (2)
From your comments on the appointment of an AUT general secretary, we can expect that next time there is a vacancy for The THES editor, there will be no interviewing panel. All those who fancy the...
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Letter: Positive discrimination is unfair (1)
The Equal Opportunities Commission is correct in saying that positive discrimination is illegal under the Sex Discrimination Act ("Macho, white culture to go", THES , November 2). But positive action...
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Letter: Positive discrimination is unfair (2)
It is a sad truism that the history of equality and diversity policy is one of two steps forward, one step back. I am sure I am not alone in welcoming Cambridge University's decision to finally...
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Letter: Positive discrimination is unfair (3)
Women in science who do not have children are more vociferous than those who do, it appears ("Science and the family don't mix", THES , October 12). But in physics, a majority of the women who hold...
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Letter: Generic aspirations?
Sam Leinster states that the titles of nurse and doctor will become obsolete in the brave new world of healthcare because practitioners will be identified not by professional label but by their...
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Letter: Not au fait with France
The hiring system in France does not work fully as Ruth Morse describes it (World View, THES , October 12). PhDs must register in October with the government's candidate list for the following year's...
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Leader: With debt and deadline, they're not here for beer
Drunken Oxbridge students - with punts, floppy white ties, bottles of Bolly and paparazzi - have done more over the years to put ordinary decent sixth-formers (and their families) off the two...
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Leader: To avoid repeat of history, Plan A needs a backup
There is one thing, and probably only one, on which all higher education's representative groups can agree: the government should provide more money. So it should. The questions are how much more,...
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A fundamental fallacy
Characterising relations between the Middle East and the West as a clash of civilisations plays into the hands of fundamentalists, argues Thomas Meyer. Since the September 11 attacks on the United...
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Mullahs and kulaks - he would bin them all
Forty years ago E. H. Carr published What is History . Richard J. Evans considers the influence this former journalist had on historical thought and how he might view history in the making today This...
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Celibates in ivory tower find stardom
'Who are academics and what is their role?' Palgrave prize-winner Mike Finn looks at the once 'remote and ineffectual don' and finds that, although academia has not lost its idealism, communicating...
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Care in a country under siege
In a country that cannot afford drug therapies for HIV-Aids, a £500-a-year hospice scheme is helping South African families prepare for death. Karen MacGregor reports. It is as bad as it gets. Three...