Wages for sages 2
Alan Ryan sensibly suggests that "British academic life has become unviable". On other pages, the School of Oriental and African Studies advertises for a director of a project on endangered languages...
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Wages for sages 3
As an admirer of your former editor, I enjoyed the front-page suggestion that she and I might non-accidentally have left our jobs simultaneously ("Ryan quits", THES , May 31). Still, it's funny to...
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Collegiate claims
As a humble FE lecturer I hesitate to take issue with Lord Briggs's elegant review of volume VII of The History of the University Oxford (Books, THES , May 31). There may, however, be one minor...
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Figures of speech
Many statistics quoted by senior public figures on the proportion of students receiving local education authority support for tuition fees are based on estimates rather than on actual figures. We...
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So what are they for? 1
I agree with Andrew Oswald that Britain needs independent universities, but not that "real universities are research institutions... and not, repeat not, primarily places of teaching" (Soapbox, THES...
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So what are they for? 2
Andrew Oswald's view that universities are not primarily places for students will bewilder funding councils, most academics and the hordes of young people on campuses who are wandering around under...
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Harassed, pulled every which way, but committed to her workers
Maggie Pearson has to turn the NHS, the third largest workforce in the world, into a learning organisation. She spoke to Claire Sanders Maggie Pearson's job is best seen as one long balancing act....
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Invitations for gifted cousins
Mandy Garner meets an organiser of a literary festival with ambitious goals. Michael Schmidt is a bit of an internationalist. Born in Mexico, he has been running Carcanet press, the literary...
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A 5-1 win and the islands are theirs
Football, foot-and-mouth and the Falklands - English-Argentine relations have been rife with conflict for 35 years. Klaus Dodds takes a look at foul play on and off the pitch. At 12.30pm today,...
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Business in bad brains
Are adolescents really 'emotionally incontinent' or is the troubled teenager more a figment of the marketing manager's mind? Jerome Burne reports. It has always been a topic of much frustration to...
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Make poetry a friend not a foe
Poetry has fallen victim to a culture that dismisses anything 'difficult' as elitist. But students should delight in the difficult - it can be exciting, argues Ruth Padel. "We are not interested,"...
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In theory, a new play on words
'Theory' is not an obvious candidate for theatrical treatment, but playwright Steve Waters argues that the philosophical musings of Bachelard and Barthes are the stuff of everyday life. Accounts of...
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The career of a cancer
Perutz prizewinning essayist Collette Tourlamain introduces the fatal Pap. Meet Pap. He is a virus (human papillomavirus type 16 to give him his full name), a small circle of DNA with a protein coat...
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No refuge for racists within the academy
Geoffrey Sampson's views are irresponsible and discredited and unworthy of the defence of academic freedom or free speech, says Ian McDonald One year ago, race riots swept across Northwest England....
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Libidinous hero puts passion into history
Michael Winstanley takes an unexpected trip down memory lane and stumbles across the joy of discovery "Hiya." The student breezed into my room. It was 5.30pm on a Friday and I was winding up another...