Anna Fazackerley reports on fears about Labour's plans for research, while Simon Francis recalls the nightmare of trying to fund his PhD study. Top-up fees may be dominating debate in Parliament, but...
Anna Fazackerley reports on fears about Labour's plans for research, while Simon Francis recalls the nightmare of trying to fund his PhD study My fondest memory is of the first flash of inspiration...
The winner of the THES -sponsored Ig Nobel literature prize has spent a career trying to prove no (attaché) case is too trivial to merit an 'informal look', says Marc Abrahams. John W. Trinkaus has...
Homosexuality in the Anglican Church is a big issue, but the increasingly rancorous debate over it risks making religion the preserve of fundamentalists and obscuring Christian wisdom on the...
Edward Said, who died recently, lived as a true intellectual, says John Higgins. He applied critical rigour not just to writing but also to the world, denouncing corruption, defending the weak and...
Most universities justify their effect on host communities by mentioning the benefits to the local economy (Town and Gown series, THES , August 1-September 12). Loughborough University even has a...
Columnist Gary Day complains about the imperialism of Russell Group universities (Opinion, THES , October 3) but then shows his own imperialist credentials by referring to all 19 as "being English"....
What a pity The THES made a drama of a ten-week-old pay-negotiations meeting rather than the hard news that the Transport and General Workers' Union, with 69 per cent in favour of the pay and...
So "a senior source for the employers" blames Association of University Teachers' negotiators for failing to talk through the night to reach a settlement. Well, the deal offered bears all the...
John Gee (Letters, THES , October 3) is right that no financial benefit follows from membership of the Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, but that is not the fault of the ILTHE...
Paddy Scannell and Philip Schlesinger have undermined their arguments on research assessment by attacking Sir Gareth Roberts (Opinion, THES , October 3). They outline two principles: inclusiveness...
I wrongly attributed to Sir Gareth Roberts a proposal to pay institutions 60 per cent of full economic cost of research (Letters, THES , October 3). The proposal comes from an Office of Science and...
Daniel Pipes is correct that jihad can mean war but wrong in his argument that Osama bin Laden is waging one ("Why don't scholars admit that holy war means war?", THES , October 3). Pipes suggests...
Like the Cambridge dons Terry Eagleton denounces ("Bin Laden sure didn't read any beer mats", THES , October 3), I have not read a book by Derrida. My reasons are twofold. The bits I have read are...
I applied for a British Academy senior research fellowship for 2002-03 ("Prizes lost in 'golden triangle'", THES , October 3) in the belief the scheme was targeted at senior staff who had not yet...