Rhetorical take on rhetoric
As teachers on the first MA in rhetoric in the UK, we found the picture of rhetoric presented in your article "Tony, George and Adolf's fighting talk" (11 March) seriously one-sided.We welcome...
As teachers on the first MA in rhetoric in the UK, we found the picture of rhetoric presented in your article "Tony, George and Adolf's fighting talk" (11 March) seriously one-sided.We welcome...
Selective quotation can be dangerous ("Wales wants governors not cheerleaders", 11 March). The Governance Review of the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales does indeed say that, unprompted,...
In his review of Dirk Schulze-Makuch and David Darling's book (We Are Not Alone, 4 March), Ian Crawford criticises the authors for claiming that we have already discovered extraterrestrial life...
I don't know why (other than out of courtesy) Kevin Sharpe exempts ߣߣƵ from his criticism of slight book reviews ("Caliban casts out Ariel", 25 February).In the new format "mag" (...
It is ironical that a report from the Adam Smith Institute should advocate the abolition of public funding for higher education ("Taxpayer beware: the hidden costs of public funding's helping hand",...
Nick Petford's apologia for the misdeeds of Bournemouth University in the Buckland case cannot go unchallenged (Letters, 11 March).It was the view of the Southampton Employment Tribunal that...
Laurie Taylor's amusing defection from psychology to sociology states that Arthur Summerfield, when head of psychology at Birkbeck, displayed on his desk a stuffed rat, and implies that he was a...
Laurie Taylor's falling in and out of love with behaviourism makes a good story. But his recollection of Birkbeck is rather different to mine. I graduated there in 1961 and stayed for a PhD, getting...

Lord Mandelson has wielded the axe on university spending, and whichever party wins the general election, further cuts are likely. Using an exclusive analysis of institutions' financial statements by...

Hurricane approaching - As the financial storm bears down, see who’s got the strength to survive from our analyses of grant allocations and institutional balance sheets

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