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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from it's opening sentence, comes from a French novelist who began by writing opera libretti: " In the year 1866 the whole maritime...
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Laurie Taylor column
"The trickle of parents accompanying their offspring on open days has become a flood" THES December 8. Professor Lapping. What is it, Maureen? Didn't I tell you I was busy all day filling out my...
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Letter: Labour pains of working mums (1)
Do working mothers put in far more hours than men ("A crushing workload", Soapbox, THES, December 8)? How can you even ask that question? I read Susan Bassnett's article with a wry smile as my two...
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Letter: Labour pains of working mums (2)
As a woman on an academic contract who is nowhere near being a vice-chancellor (and doesn't aspire to be one), but who is also loaded with "S" (support activities), has a toddler, takes work home (to...
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Letter: Labour pains of working mums (3)
Your article is one of the first I have read where an academic has gone into print on the very sensitive subject of whether women put in far more hours than men. If the government's transparency...
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Letter: Commonwealth funds
Readers may draw the wrong conclusions from your report on the continued funding of the Commonwealth of Learning owing to how you juxtaposed our written reports, oral presentation and ministerial...
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Letter: Running battle
Perdita Stevens and her colleagues (Letters, THES, December 1) query my statement that mathematical ability is gender-linked. There are many sources of data on the distribution of mathematical...
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Letter: Pension fuming
Academics who criticise Nottingham for taking tobacco cash should scrutinise their pension plans. When I was offered membership of the Universities' Superannuation Scheme, more than 10 per cent of...
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Letter: Flak for all hacks (1)
David Palfreyman's points to a problem with "well-meaning amateur dons as part-time committee hacks" (Letters, THES, December 8). That problem is far worse in Cambridge, and it concerns me that...
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Letter: Flak for all hacks (2)
Congratulations to David Palfreyman on sending me to the dictionary twice and causing me mentally to draw breath three times while reading one of his sentences. Oxford lives... Beverley Thompson...
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Letter: God help us (1)
As a member of a small theology department that has the misfortune of having to prepare for both the research assessment exercise and a subject review visit, my thoughts have been turning to the long...
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Letter: God help us (2)
Although I read Peter Atkins's review of Ian Barbour's When Science Meets Religion (Books, THES, December 8) with salacious pleasure, I could not help feeling that someone who was really so sure of...
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Letter: Pollsters or dolesters?
Pollsters and journalists despair because they failed to predict the outcome of the United States presidential elections ("Red faces over White House forecast fiasco", THES, November 17). Perhaps...
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Letter: Ethics and Burma
Beverley Drumm (Letters, THES, December 8) made some excellent points. But I disagree on one issue. To imply that to enter a dictatorship on a research visa endorsed by a host government ministry is...