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I sympathise with my academic peers (Letters, THES , May 24). With only the feature "Sink schools" ( THES , May 17) to go on, I, too, might conclude that I was narcissistic, envious and fearful. But...
I sympathise with my academic peers (Letters, THES , May 24). With only the feature "Sink schools" ( THES , May 17) to go on, I, too, might conclude that I was narcissistic, envious and fearful. But...
As women are frequent casualties of departments playing the research assessment exercise lottery, it is good to see their achievements being honoured in the national teaching fellowship awards (For...
Employers do not understand what higher education is if the Council for Industry and Higher Education survey comments are to be believed ("Involve employers in making graduates employable", THES ,...
So universities need to teach working-class students social and life skills so that they may earn as much as their middle-class peers ("'Unwashed' must brush up on their social skills", THES , May 17...
I take offence at comments by Richard Brown, CIHE chief executive. I was the first from my working-class family to go to university. I learnt to wash at an early age, and my social skills are better...
The situation revealed by the education consultant in Singapore ("A hard sell for easy money", THES , April 26) is not new. It was recognition of such activities that prompted the formation of the...
The article "Singapore scholars criticise US focus" ( THES , May 3) attributed a statement that "with nearly 2,000 faculty members, staff turnover was high" to our head of corporate communications,...
We were astonished to read that "Staff at Goldsmiths want Pimlott's head" ( THES , May 24) in a report about a motion of no confidence in the warden, Ben Pimlott, to go before the local Association...
Glenn Murcutt has just been awarded the 'Nobel prize of architecture'. Linda Vergnani meets the uncompromising loner 'whom every architect would like to be'. Driving an ancient Citroën through a...
Does one of the host nations of the World Cup bring to mind geishas and duty-bound businessmen? Cut the cliché, says Ayako Yoshino. The world's greatest sporting carnival has kicked off again. Brace...
Does the strategic arms reduction treaty signed by Russia and the US liquidate 'the legacy of the cold war', asks At last week's summit between US president George W. Bush and Russian president...
Continuing our series of Big Science Questions, Mark Buchanan asks if we are in a post-evolutionary age, and Michael Ruse looks at our role in change. Comments that followed the death of Stephen Jay...
Continuing our series of Big Science Questions, Mark Buchanan asks if we are in a post-evolutionary age, and Michael Ruse looks at our role in change. It is tempting to suppose that in this modern...
On the eve of the Queen's golden jubilee celebrations, THES writers examine why European monarchies endure and look at royal dynasties around the world. British imperial rule nurtured pliant monarchs...
On the eve of the Queen's golden jubilee celebrations, THES writers examine why European monarchies endure and look at royal dynasties around the world. Europe's monarchs have survived by ceding...