The sprint into print
Whatever else is being cut back in the thrifty 1990s, it certainly isn't investment in university presses. John Davies reports. Edinburgh has one but Glasgow hasn't. Durham hasn't but Exeter has....
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Drive a stake in heart of elitism
Recently, the United Kingdom's political landscape has been reinvigorated by a battle of ideas. This is surprising, given UK scepticism about anything intellectual and the tradition of judging...
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The placebo dilemma
Jack Howell (THES, January 19) suggests that an alternative therapy is not invalidated if it improves a medical condition by "the placebo effect". This contradicts his earlier view that a double-...
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Question time for Bible
I was surprised to read that Sheffield's department of biblical studies was "outside the main centres of biblical scholarship". With 25 academics and 110 research students, it may be the largest...
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Question time for Bible
Of all academic disciplines, study of the Bible must be the most contentious. Israel Finkelstein comments on the "subjective environment" which "threatens objectivity and excellence of scholarship" (...
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Don's Diary
MONDAY. It is seven weeks since I arrived in Bratislava, but I am still trying to find the social work department, one of two in which my European chair, organised by the Institute for Human Sciences...
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Whither Luther and the good book
Jennie Brookman (THES, January 12) reported on the discovery of an old Latin Bible that is supposed to be Martin Luther's personal copy, which he used at Wartburg to render the New Testament into the...
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An enthusiast's spark from out of Africa
Virginia Morell's book Ancestral Passions: The Leakey family and the quest for humankind's beginning was reviewed on December 29 by Thomas Sambrook. He suggests that Virginia Morell portrays Louis...
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Political arithmetic at low ebb
A.H. Halsey says both graduates and taxpayers must pay for higher education. How shall we pay for our new mass system of tertiary education? We cannot incidentally stop at the 1992 decision to call...
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Cracks in foundation
We would like to point out that the complaints described in the front page article (THES, January 12) were not directed at the longstanding course run jointly by the Cambridge University Counselling...
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Adopt the brand plan for the British Council
Roger Iredale is correct - the British Council has been put in an impossible position by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. There are real conflicts of interest. The council needs to plan how to...
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Deep pan doctorate
I see that the University of Westminster has awarded an honorary doctorate to Peter Boiszot, founder and chairman of PizzaExpress (THES,January 19). Was it delivered free by a student on a motorbike...
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Private function
Who benefits from the Private Finance Initiative? First the taxpayer, if you start from the view that spending less is to taxpayers' advantage even if it means crumbling infrastructure. More than two...
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Fly away patrons
In central and eastern Europe irritation is growing with western experts and consultants who jet in, tell people what they ought to be doing, and draw fat fees that can come to more for a few days'...
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Paid peanuts, made into monkeys
It may be a cliche, but for once it happens to be true: morale in British universities is at an all-time low. The profession I joined 30 years ago is not one I would choose as a career now, nor is it...