Hark the Herald?
What a joyless image of post-Christian Christmas Peter Atkins presents. Through a "tidal wave of secular excess", in which the general populace is "fleeced, conned, cajoled and pressed into...
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Best Bett for more cash
In your new year message ("How to attract funders in the new year, THES, January 1) you urge all in education to pitch the merits - not the needs - of their institutions harder. Surely, we must do...
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Arts and minds
Your round-up of 1998 ("Who made a splash?", THES, January 1) says the "stunt" last May by the Leeds University fine art students was a "staged simulation aimed at raising fundamental questions about...
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Keele sale calls for change to law
I was dismayed when I heard early last summer that Keele University intended to sell the Turner collection of books on the history of mathematics. Although not a member of senate, I wrote to all...
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Keele sale calls for change to law
Every effort should be made to keep the Turner collection in Britain. It should never have been allowed to pass into private hands. The law needs strengthening to prevent financially hard-pressed...
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Keele sale calls for change to law
The books should be offered to the British Library or some other academic institution where they can be viewed by interested scholars. They should certainly not be sold to a private collector if they...
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Keele sale calls for change to law
The legal position over the sale of history of mathematics books left to Keele University should be fairly easy to establish. If the donor, Charles W. Turner, left the books to the university on...
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Keele sale calls for change to law
We wish to reassure David Singmaster and other interested parties that Keele's decision to sell the Turner collection was made only after a wide-ranging debate within the university's committee...
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Research role for ILT
Stephen Rowland and his colleagues are not alone in calling for changes to the research assessment exercise to encourage research into teaching in higher education ("RAE shake-up is needed before...
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Why I plan to carry on smoking in 1999
Criminologist and lecturer in sociology at Reading University. He is a patron of FOREST, the pro-smoking lobby group. I am a libertarian and I enjoy smoking. Everybody has the right to smoke and...
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Pros of the short term
Academics used to have more job protection than priests. Now they have fixed-term contracts, the change is good for all concerned, says Larry Bunt There has been a lot of complaining from the unions...
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Readers' reactions
Last month in The THES.. We asked whether UK universities needed a British version of the Modern Language Association As I left the meeting of the Council for College and University English on...
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Cutting edge
Computer-processed medical images open new horizons in surgical techniques and in research into the mechanisms of disease Modern medicine has been enormously advanced by techniques for the creation...
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French want one front in Aids fight
Ministers want more private-public cooperation to fill 'missing link' in Aids research. Jane Marshall reports French government ministers have berated drugs firms for their lack of action in fighting...
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Genetics consultation
The Human Genetics Advisory Commission will hold a series of consultations this year to help identify key issues emerging from developments in human genetics. Colin Campbell, HGAC chairman, said: "We...