Not our business
Alan Shipman's claim that the MBA might not be worth the paper it is printed on ("Is the masterplan coming unstuck?", THES , November 8) is true only for a minority of graduates. There are more than...
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Is Evans worthy?
Gillian Evans has fought doughtily to make Cambridge University central administration stick to the rules, so eyebrows may be raised over reports of her promotion to professor before Regent House...
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Petition has clout
Queen's University Belfast's decision to axe classics ("Poet Heaney joins protest over axeing of classic", THES , November 1) means that potential students "will have to leave the province to do a...
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Help with the kids
I read with interest the argument that top-up fees will mean that most academics will be unable to afford to send their children to university (Letters, THES , November 8). Up until 1950, some...
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Credit where it's due
Tony Hewish's minimising of the part played by his student Jocelyn Bell Burnell in the discovery of pulsars should not be the final word (Diary, THES , October 25, November 8). The discovery of...
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An eye on plagiarism
The article "Troubled Wales is hit by plagiarism claim" (News, THES , November 8) conflates and confuses two cases. The first, Jo Kimber's, was a complaint to the University of Wales Swansea that was...
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Eugenics is a reality
Ian Wilmut's review of Genetic Politics (Books, November 8) ignores how the disability discourse has been hijacked by anti-abortionists. The obligatory denunciation of "eugenics" is one way of...
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Confusing victims with bullies 1
It is extraordinary that Michael Cohen and Colwyn Williamson should criticise the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology's investigation into Mona Baker's behaviour on behalf of...
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Confusing victims with bullies 2
Michael Cohen and Colwyn Williamson rightly expose Umist's let's-make-it-up-as-we-go-along "internal inquiry" into Mona Baker's activities. Like Baker, I have been the target of a Zionist "witch-hunt...
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Confusing victims with bullies 3
Mona Baker has the right to put forward unpopular opinions without fear of losing her job or privileges that go with it. But with privileges come obligations, such as not to bring one's institution...
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Confusing victims with bullies 4
Academics should guard against simplistic solutions designed more to demonise the Jewish State of Israel and its people than to criticise the political policies of a democratically elected government...
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Full list of prizewinners and projects
University of Cambridge - the Charles Darwin Correspondence Project Deeside College, North Wales - Training for Business University of Greenwich - IT Evacuation Tools for the Safety Industry Imperial...
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Update: 12:45
London students hit by staff strike Tens of thousands of university students in London are being hit by a strike over pay involving staff from porters to professors. Four unions are staging the...
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Today's news
Ministers accused of 'softening us up' for top-up fees A shake-up of universities with the prospect of students paying top-up fees is the most controversial education proposal in the Queen's Speech....
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University-industry relationship key to technology transfer, agrees innovation panel
Brussels, 13 Nov 2002 'I was very surprised and quite glad to hear that, from the Commission point of view, universities will continue to play a very strong role in the innovative process,' Yves...