Diversity bike wobbles as the training wheels come off
Silence at Boalt Hall
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Twitching veil of ignorance
Ethics, Economics, and Politics
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Gripped by a Pepys show
Samuel Pepys
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Biblical lives and secrets revealed
The Complete World of the Dead Sea Scrolls
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Chomsky wipes slate clean
On Nature and Language
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Laurie Taylor
From: The vice-chancellor and chief executive To: All academic staff As one or two of you might be vaguely aware, The THES recently published a league table purporting to show the increases in salary...
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Alan Ryan
Does Britain have class the way that America has race? If so, can positive discrimination do any good? The item in Charles Clarke's white paper on the future of higher education that has attracted...
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Leader: Build a research elite and ensure freedom for rest
There is no point trying to stop academics doing research. Even in new universities, which have almost no official funding for it, research goes on, papers are published and research degrees are...
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Leader: Recruiting free-for-all will bring instability
Top-up fees and restrictions on research funds represent the public face of the government's proposed higher education "market". But student enrolment figures published this week show that fissures...
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Now class, let's get that down in writing
Is literacy in decline? Harriet Swain looks at efforts to improve student writing It has become a common gripe among lecturers that students no longer know how to construct an academic argument in an...
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Reader, you are not welcome
Is literacy in decline? Alan Sinfield bridles at narrow lit crit's sidelining of audiences Twenty years ago today, it was plausible to debate the principles that might underlie literary reading. In...
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Can we build an urban utopia?
The city should be a sphere of active democratic participation, argues David Harvey, but to achieve this, we must roll back the huge wave of privatisation The city, the noted urban sociologist Robert...
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Resting place for heads of state
Royal death masks, revolutionary corpses and grisly, sensationalistic tableaux of gruesome murders. At Madame Tussaud's, Pamela Pilbeam found a remarkable historical archive, not just Kylie Minogue...
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Cooking for terrorists
To understand terrorism, we must get close to terrorists, says Rohan Gunaratna, who has talked with Tamil Tigers, drunk with IRA men and discussed the Koran with Taliban fighters In 1984 I...
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Do v-cs deserve a PM's salary? 1
Andrew Oswald relates vice-chancellors' pay (Soapbox, THES , February 7) to that of chief executives in business and industry, where rates can be as high as £500,000 to £1 million a year. Most people...