Letter: In brief (1)
May I correct the misleading impression given of the accommodation position for new students at the University of Leicester ("Room at the inn for freshers", THES , September 28)? Far from being "...
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Letter: In brief (2)
I hope that the report of the comments of the vice-chancellor of the University Southampton was abbreviated beyond recognition ("V-c in access warning", THES , September 28). He seems to be arguing...
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Letter: In brief (3)
Several years' experience of recruitment and training in the private sector demonstrates that spelling and proofreading skills are rare in graduates (Letters, THES , September 28). When teaching as a...
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Letter: Cash isn't the question
London Guildhall University Natfhe chairman Alan Lafferty (Letters, THES , September 28), risks deflecting attention from the real issue of education provision by focusing his comments on the...
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Letter: Know your placement (1)
We need to encourage employers to offer more student placements as relevant work experience carries a premium in employment and sandwich placements are the crème de la crème of work experience. We...
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Letter: Know your placement (2)
The Quality Assurance Agency continues its pronouncements of how vital a service it provides prospective students and employers, with the Liberal Democrats and the National Union of Students queuing...
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Letter: Get some PhD appeal
Research councils are right to be concerned at the fall in the number of postgraduate research students in the United Kingdom ("Councils fear shortage of postgraduates", THES , September 28). Funding...
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Leader: Employer openness will stave off unfairness
Rahul Jindal's industrial tribunal case against the University of Glasgow raises an issue, referee confidentiality, that is of wider concern than a single individual or institution. Academic careers...
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Leader: Institutions risk zero-sum game if they snub Hodge
The mood music from Brighton this week has been all sombre pomp and circumstance. The prime minister and the chancellor are readying the country for war - for soldiers' deaths and higher taxes. As...
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An intellectual vacuum
Where are the UK's Chomskys, Sontags and Saids? Frank Furedi mourns the demise of Britain's public intellectuals and the rise of the safe university 'expert'. At a recent discussion about the future...
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So you want to be a public intellectual?
If you are interested in "an advanced general education and life as a public intellectual", Florida Atlantic University may be for you. Since 1999, it has offered a PhD in comparative studies for...
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The bitter fruits of strategic alliance
The radical Islamic sects that threaten to derail Pakistan's commitment to the war on terrorism are a result of the country's efforts to counter India's regional supremacy, writes Ian Talbot. On...
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We cannot even define them, let alone name them...
...so how can we make war on those we call terrorists? asks David Whittaker The rhetoric from Washington about "taking out" terrorism is a predictable response provoked by the anger and grief that...
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Sow the wind and reap the whirlwind
Desire for vengeance will not end terrorism. The US must tackle it by attacking poverty and inequality worldwide, says Stanley Aronowitz. After all the talk of revenge and crusades, the posting of...
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The poetic passions between the sheets
Poetry anthologies are hotbeds of controversy, exciting rows over who's in and who's out. Peter Middleton on the latest addition. An 80-something American poet once asked me with considerable pathos...