Comrades stop by for a political bring-and-buy
Is student activism reviving? Ivor Gaber drops in on a UK teach-in It was almost like old Vietnam times: two dozen student activists sitting in a room in London University's School of Oriental and...
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Historian holds US front line in war against war
Is student activism reviving? Stephen Phillips talks to a US campus political veteran. As a US air force bombardier stationed in Britain during the second world war, bestselling radical American...
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Learning curve: It's not only OK, it's great to say 'I think'
Tutors must inculcate in students a confidence that lets them express their views, writes Chris Hopkins First-year English students often ask this apparently stylistic question: "Is it OKif I say 'I...
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Yiddish lives on
Readers of "Outcry as Soas drops Yiddish" ( THES , October 11) might think that Yiddish is no longer available at London University. But Yiddish is alive and well across the road at University...
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Small bites or starve
Why did we modularise (Letters, THES , October 11, 18)? Because offering minors, majors and single honours in each subject across a large modular scheme allowed small subjects to attract enough...
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Focus on real threat
Preparations for war against Iraq are illegal and are diverting attention from the war against terrorism ("What lurks in the shadows", THES , October 18). Britain's attorney-general has ruled that...
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Merge quietly
Your leader on the Imperial/University College London merger ("Ministers could find full cost fees too hot to handle", THES , October 18) makes much of the challenge to Oxbridge. This may be a...
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Pretty impartial
Stephen Gundle (Letters, THES , October 18) perversely misreads my review of Paul Ginsborg's Italy and its Discontents (Books, THES , September ) as a personal attack on Ginsborg. He fails to...
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Quality request
I am writing an account of the development of quality assurance in UK higher education between 1992 and 2002. I am interested in any work on the impact of quality assurance regimes, particularly...
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Be clear on 'Irish' collaboration
The future of cross-border collaboration in higher education in Ireland is up in the air following the suspension of the devolved institutions created by the Belfast Agreement ("Labour MP takes over...
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UK industry a turn-off
The reason why so few graduates in computer science and women graduates in science, engineering and technology work in their field of study may be neither poor tuition nor sexism but simply that they...
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Pupils deserve better
The article "Stakes rise in battle for places" ( THES , October 11) highlighted the fears of many students, parents and staff about the likely scenario for those applying through the Universities...
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Do the decent thing
Richard Barker cites two reasons why he should be allowed to carry on in his post as professor of social work at Northumbria University: that he is a successful academic and has colleagues' support...
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Redundant committee
The article "Brum v-c defends plan to cut up to 200 jobs" ( THES , October 11) fails to mention a success for academics and Birmingham Association of University Teachers. The pro chancellor, Lord...
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No paradigm shift
Stephen Wolfram has made a tactical blunder in hitching his revolutionary wagon to Thomas Kuhn's star ("New kind of science, old kind of sceptics?" THES , October 18). Kuhn claims scientific...