First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is by a novelist who was once a policeman: "U Po Kyin, Sub-divisional Magistrate of Kyauktada, in Upper Burma...
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Fast food for thought
The Liberating Power of Symbols - The Postnational Constellation
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Knowledge turned upside down
Knowledge and its Limits
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Can rationality be kicked into a gap?
Rationality in Action
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ETs and a search for wobbly truths
Invariances
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Laurie Taylor
"The University of North London and London Guildhall University are paying a 'five-figure fee' for work on a new logo" - THES, April 5 . Item 12: Redesigning the Poppleton logo. Professor Comstock...
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Leader: Can there really be too many female doctors?
It is less than 150 years since Elizabeth Garrett Anderson became the first woman to qualify as a doctor in Britain, against the massed opposition of a white, male profession. It is only 40 years...
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Leader: It's a smart move to support your vice-chancellor
Who runs universities? To the chagrin of vice-chancellors, as accountability and funding difficulties have come to bear, governing bodies, be they councils (of old universities) or governing boards (...
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Divided on quality (1)
Imagine that a Quality Assurance Agency panel encountered a department that could not tell students whether they would be required to sit a final examination, when that exam might take place, what...
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Divided on quality (2)
ߣߣÊÓƵ's quality chief David Woodhouse (Letters, THES , April 5) wilfully misreads my article (Features, THES , March 22). I did not base my argument on "the analogy with financial audit". My...
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Divided on quality (3)
David Woodhouse makes the strange assertion that Michael Loughlin's article is UK-centred. Why not, if that is what Loughlin set out to analyse? Woodhouse thinks academics waste their time by...
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In brief (1)
In Tony Tysome's full-page encomium for Cardiff University, the word "teaching" does not appear (Analysis, THES , April 5). It is as if Cardiff were an elite research institute, not a place getting...
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In brief (2)
The THES Diary (April 5) reported that the textbook Decision Analysis for Management Judgment costs £16.04 secondhand and £15.99 new on the amazon.co.uk website. As one of the authors, I recommend:...
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In brief (3)
Now that the Association for University Teachers' election for general secretary is over, I would like to express my gratitude to Paul Cottrell, who stood in as acting general secretary. The union's...
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Creating a storm (1)
Pity the poor university chaplain who believes in evolution and tries to help students relate their religious ideas to what they are learning but is obliged to compete against fringe Christian groups...