Intellectual impasse
Now the clamour of the "battle with the CBI on intellectual rights" (THES, March 17 and letters March 24) has subsided, it is time for a cool look at the underlying issues. The unfortunate tone of...
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Churchill and the King
In Vernon Bogdanov's review of my book Eminent Churchillians (THES, March 3) he states that I "say nothing to illustrate that the King did not give Churchill his full support" after December 1940....
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Neural path is a grey matter
D. W. Salt's response (THES, March 17) to my article on consciousness (THES, March 3) misses several of the points I tried to make. I never used the epithet "epiphenomenal" for consciousness. Indeed...
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Fair pay should be on display
I read with interest your league table of vice chancellors salaries but was rather puzzled as to why you did not publish the precise information for Oxford Brookes vice chancellor, Clive Booth. For...
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Fair pay should be on display
The stark facts about how lecturers' pay increases have lagged behind those of school teachers and other groups since 1979 (THES, March 31) apply no less to academic staff in the new universities and...
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You can pun but you can't hide
In a survey of recent issues of New Scientist, 64 British universities advertised in the appointments pages, of which 36 (56 per cent) always included a statement about equal opportunities. (The...
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Bucked trend fizzes up
Speakers at a combined Royal Society/British Academy conference this week were fizzing with excitement. The conference was the Evolution of Social Behaviour Patterns in Primates and Man - and the...
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No more fool's gold
The National Union of Students' decision to review its battle cry for a return of historical grant levels can be seen as its own Clause Four debate. As in the Labour Party's modernising review, it is...
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Deakin student quits after victimisation claim
A 34-year-old Englishman who made national headlines in Australia last year after threatening to take Deakin University to the Trade Practices Commission for misleading advertising, has quit his...
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Ingenuity can conquer all in the new Russia
Russian universities are embracing the opportunities offered by the country's market reforms and new freedoms to link with higher education in the rest of the world. The country's changing structures...
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Liberation's front
As world leaders try to breathe fresh impetus into the stalled Palestinian peace process, the new state is striving for economic regeneration and a return to social and political stability. The Oslo...
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Protesting Australian university students
(Photograph) - Better deal: An end to postgraduate fees was one demand made by thousands of protesting Australian university students in national demonstrations last month. They also demanded a...
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Statues of Edmund Burke and Oliver Goldsmith
(Photograph) - Face lift: the newly-cleaned and re-erected statues of Edmund Burke and Oliver Goldsmith have been unveiled by Irish Taoiseach John Bruton to mark the completion of the Pounds 700,000...
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Moldovan history bid goes up in flames
Plans by Moldova's ministry of education to introduce a course entitled "History of Moldova" were scrapped last week following ten days of student strikes, protests, rallies and the public burning of...
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Liberal professor to fight Berlusconi
Italian general elections, probable in the summer or autumn, will see a mild-mannered economics professor from Bologna pitted against the media-might of right-wing television tycoon Silvio Berlusconi...