Labour's cuts fight
Your editorial (THES, October 25) arrived at the absurd conclusion that the Labour party must be held responsible for whatever cuts to higher education expenditure are made or confirmed in the...
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Labour's cuts fight
Your editorial was amusingly wrong in suggesting that academics at the London School of Economics have "backed off" from top-up fees in response to pressure from Labour governors. There is no backing...
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Oxford's November 5th fireworks
Valentine Cunningham's argument ("Cash for Colleges", THES, October 25) is a dangerous one which suggests that universities should turn their back on some types of external funding although they have...
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Oxford's November 5th fireworks
I hope I was not alone in finding Valentine Cunningham's article intellectually shallow and socially rather offensive. I found it particularly strange that a teacher of English would hint that...
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Back to Plowden
You report (THES, October 25) Sir Ron Dearing's appeal to universities to "set up units in working-class estates" to help to "transmit common standards of citizenship to excluded communities". This...
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Don's Diary
Saturday. Brighton. Another "Induction Day", this week a fresh cohort of wannabe Masters in Education. Working to a very tight schedule today. This strikes a chord with our audience when encouraging...
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Miracles are our business
A few days ago I strolled into the office of one my best friends, an economist. France's unemployment rate for the past month had been made public that very morning, and widely commented upon. I...
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糖心Vlog View
Universities have always been ambivalent about whether they are local institutions. Most seem detached from their surroundings in the spirit of the ivory tower, and the trend to build universities on...
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A fugitive from the pigeonhole
John Davies talks to Bernard Williams, the philosopher who once advised governments and married a minister and who has just retired from Oxford. At first, there is a problem about interviewing...
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Colleges reach cash stalemate
Further education institutions are calling for a radical cure for their financial ills. A top-level working group looking at the way colleges are funded has failed to come up with anything better...
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Russia's spurned reformer
Archie Brown contrasts Oxford's warm welcome for Gorbachev with the cold shoulder he gets from his countrymen. Mikhail Gorbachev is back in the news again - at least in the West. These days he is...
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Republican Lite?
Bill Clinton looks set to bury Bob Dole in a landslide in next Tuesday's US elections. Not bad for a president who was hugely unpopular only two years ago. How has the Comeback Kid managed this...
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Russians admit decision to dissolve federation was a big mistake
It was, in the words of its national anthem, a "union of free and indivisible republics". It lasted more than 70 years. It pioneered the exploration of outer space, and bored the world's deepest oil...
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Illuminating our hardware
Sara Abdulla explores the burgeoning subject of evolutionary psychology. In human behaviour heredity furnishes the warp and cultural habits the woof; the warp remains everywhere much the same", said...
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Menu masters
This week The THES begins a series on a little-mentioned but crucial ingredient in academic life - food. Here, Lisa Jardine reveals her culinary passions, what the Tudors put in their blancmange and...