OU taps in to windfall
The article "Universities slow to tell students of tax windfall" (THES, June 6) failed to mention that the Open University has been offering vocational training relief on a number of its courses...
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A challenge to the Hera antagonists
Temperate criticism is not usually the hallmark of Association of University Teachers and Natfhe, the college lecturers' union. When Jill Jones and Alan Carr (THES letters, June 13) argue that "...
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The truth is out there
I was slightly surprised to read that Sandy Wolfson's research suggested that many Trekkies show addict-like symptoms, as according to the summary of her research which she showed me last year (and...
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Operational research
At a time when the qualitative standing and role of higher education are under close scrutiny, it is perhaps surprising and certainly unfortunate that a senior commentator (professor and dean of...
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Rorty the reactionary
I was delighted to read Sean Sayers's article on Richard Rorty (THES, June 6). On the one hand, I am the first to support academic freedom, on the other I am also the first to argue that that freedom...
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Don's Diary
Wednesday Anglia Television records news item about the court case I am seeking to bring against the university with respect to its promotion procedures. There are a lot of promotion candidates in...
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Battle over, anxiety takes hold
From Alan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind, Dinesh D'Souza's Illiberal Education, Roger Kimball's Tenured Radicals, Martin Anderson's Impostors in the Temple, to Lynne Cheney's Telling the...
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Principals, means and endings
In the past few weeks I have been working with John and Miriam Carver, the American gurus of governance in non-profit organisations. Their British audiences are greatly impressed by the simple but...
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Blood bank
(Photograph) - Biologist Angela Priestman is giving blood-sucking African mosquitoes a taste of their own medicine by sucking them from the walls of rural African houses after they have feasted. Dr...
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From Noah to Newton
Religion and Science
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Anomic, archaic, enigmatic
LSE on Social Science
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Baffling search for paradise
Eden Renewed
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The women who won poll position
Suffrage Days
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Speaking Volumes: The Socialist Union's Twentieth Century Socialism
George Bain on the Socialist Union's Twentieth Century Socialism. My mother came from a middle class, conservative family in Belfast, my father from a working class, socialist family in Alloa. There...
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Within the volcano
Sursum Corda! The Collected Letters of Malcolm Lowry - Sursum Corda! The Collected Letters of Malcolm Lowry