Heard the one about peat fibre?
At the new Dana Centre, science is performed and animated. On a recent visit, Raphael Salkie gets to grips with a self-administering enema syringe It looks like any chic London coffee bar, until you...
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What an education did for Rita
Inspired by Willy Russell's Educating Rita , single parent Sandra Smith enrolled at university. One degree, one diploma and 70 unsuccessful job applications later, she is led to ponder the question...
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Lesson 1: difficulty of being excellent
Laurie Taylor goes a few rounds with the funny man behind the George Steiner myth When my turn comes in the taxi queue at Cambridge station I find I'm being gestured towards a people carrier. Perched...
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Discover the darkness at the heart of Europe
A long-overdue exploration of Belgium's treatment of Jews under the Nazis is being led by a research centre, says Terry Philpot Three years ago, Leo Delwaide, a prominent member of Belgium's Flemish...
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The adult-only playground
London may be a 'fairground' for infantilised grown-ups, but it is the opposite for children - who find their urban spaces increasingly restricted, say Jenny Bavidge and Andrew Gibson One of the more...
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How to further a fair fees future 1
The Queen's speech mentions the abolition of up-front tuition fees only "for all full-time students", but what about part-timers (Leader, THES , November 28)? The fees these students are charged are...
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How to further a fair fees future 2
It is claimed that top-up fees/graduate taxes will encourage Scotland's academics to migrate to England for better pay and conditions and encourage England's students to migrate to Scotland for...
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How to further a fair fees future 3
Why not ensure the educational benefits of top-up fees by making them performance-related? Students could see big debt reductions. For example, if a university considered attendance important, it...
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Ready, steady, goof 1
Whose fault is it that university employers have not noticed laws on sexual orientation and religious belief that came into effect this week ("HE 'not ready for laws on equality'", THES , November 28...
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Ready, steady, goof 2
To state that staff are "not entitled to time off" for religious observance is too bold. The new regulations against discrimination make no mention of time off to attend religious festivals. However...
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Brave new world
Do London editors never get their heads out of the smog? Unfair? Well, so is "'Dreary' Dundee is the place to be" ( THES , November 28). Dundee 2003 has sunshine, open spaces, clean air and fast...
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Sensitivity plea
Hindu responses to Paul Courtright's book are more complex than your pithy introduction suggests ("Silenced for hinting at an Indian Oedipus", THES , November 28). There are indeed Hindus incensed by...
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Deep in world affairs 1
Eric Thomas' claim that only Oxbridge has a global impact among UK universities ("Think you belong on the world stage? Think again", THES , November 28) is unfair to Imperial College London and the...
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Deep in world affairs 2
The UK has long regarded itself as international because it has large numbers of international students and because its researchers collaborate worldwide. Other countries are internationalising far...
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No rescue took place
Lancaster University's offer of a personal chair is in no way connected to the Austrian Academy of Science's refusal to extend and fund my research centre ("Lancaster rescues embattled linguist",...