Allegiance to duty in a realm of the capricious
The Kings and Queens of England
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from an essay that inspired Gandhi and Martin Luther King: "I heartily accept the motto, - 'That government...
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Moral take on tots and technology
Oversold and underused
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Port not claret in plastic age
The History of the University of Oxford, Volume III, Nineteenth-Century Oxford, Part 2
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Laurie Taylor
Concern grows over casualisation of university teaching - THES May 24 . Good morning. Dons U Like. Good morning. My name is Professor Lapping. University of Poppleton. We have a bit of a crisis. One...
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Why I ...think no rational person should become an academic in Britain
Warden New College, Oxford I am taking off to California for 2002-03. That is not much of a news item. Even in these straitened times, most academics take one year off in seven as sabbatical leave....
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Leader: The job can be done but not without more cash
In her final editorial, Auriol Stevens argues that higher education has delivered, now it's up to the government to pay for its policies From the cutting edge of research to the frontiers of wider...
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In brief 1
Exams are almost over and exam boards loom. At my university we encourage undergraduates to ask for extenuating circumstances to be taken into consideration. The evidence is pouring in. This group...
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In brief 2
The pseudonymous Mr Brogan ("Part-time post: long hours, atrocious pay", THES , May 17) is lucky to have any teaching and visiting lectureships at all - chance would be a fine thing. And £12 an hour...
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Border lines
Sara Parkin argues that the government is not promoting education for sustainable development (Opinion, THES , May 17). Which government? The Welsh Assembly has a constitutional commitment to...
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Pull research back from brink 1
Wendy Piatt's contribution to the tuition-fee debate (Soapbox, THES , May 24) left me asking: what do they research at the Institute for Public Policy Research? Not economics and logic. But Piatt did...
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Pull research back from brink 2
Since 1992, universities such as Plymouth have worked to broaden the research base in higher education and move beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries to develop new areas of interdisciplinary...
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Open your mind 1
Andrew Oswald says that the meaning of the word "university" is being despoiled by policy-making ("A victim of vocabulary", THES , May 24). Reasserting the university as a research-based organisation...
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Open your mind 2
We risk losing the meaning of "university" amid financial pressures and widening participation. "Mass" support for preserving meaning and a rejection of the juggling of research required by the...
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Chinese riddle
Geoffrey Sampson says his comments on race "were informed by years of study of Chinese civilisation" ("Professor under fire for racist views", THES , May 17). No work by him has come before any...