Letter: Acting out equality
"Don't deny spice of life" (Soapbox, THES , March 15) points out that universities and colleges need to act now to ensure that they comply with the Special Educational Needs and Disability Act 2001...
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Letter: Where will envy lead?
Final-salary pension schemes are being phased out in the private sector to be replaced by money-purchase schemes that provide inferior benefits. It will be only a matter of time before the final-...
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Letter: Not that special
While glad to be included under "heavy hitters" in your piece on post-research assessment exercise funding losses ("Heavy hitters winded by huge budget cuts", THES , March 8), it is only because we...
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Letter: Truth about job losses 1
In your front-page article ("Grant cuts threaten 1,000 jobs", THES , March 15), you assert that Oxford Brookes University is "already facing the loss of 140 academic staff". This is not true. Oxford...
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Letter: Truth about job losses 2
You state that "Middlesex University is making six academics compulsorily redundant". This is not true. The university has lost 90 posts, mostly through not filling vacancies. After a review of...
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Letter: In brief 1
Ernest Drucker emphasises the possible role of unsterile injections in the emergence of Aids (Features, THES , March 15). But even sterile injections can be dangerous. Injections in the buttock...
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Letter: In brief 2
In "Laughing all the way to the Left Bank" (Features, THES , March 8), we learn of two Cambridge academics who have bought flats in Paris because they were unable to afford properties in Cambridge....
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Letter: In brief 3
Gremlins got at my letter ( THES , March 15). Noam Chomsky's view that, at a deep level, thought determines language (not vice versa) is not now discredited, as Michael Bulley says ( THES , February...
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Letter: Give quality-conscious FE credit
The real question about your report "QAA report fingers FE" (THES, March 15) is "who doesn't try to finger FE?" The sector's problem has been its naivety in getting on with the job rather than...
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Letter: As easy as M. N. O?
Andy Smith and Mike Eysenck's study of citation counts in psychology departments is problematic (Letters, THES , March 1). The citations Smith and Eysenck sent me to check assumed that researchers...
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Letter: Let's clear the air
In view of recent revelations of supposedly independent commentators receiving massive retainers from, for example, the tobacco industry, you should require from your contributors statements of...
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Leader: Time for government to curb creationist call
Emmanuel City Technology College in Gateshead has unleashed a whirlwind on those who complacently believed that we in Britain were safe from the creationist enthusiasms that have warped public debate...
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Leader: Universities must prove their ability to self-regulate
At last. The new quality-assurance regime unveiled this week looks fit for the purpose. The main emphasis will be on institutional audit and departmental review, with external examiners given beefed-...
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Assurance, effectiveness, ownership, empowerment, autonomy, dynamic learning curves... a continuum of quality-awareness, self-actualisation and enhancement ...whatever that means.
When even the leader of the QAA is confused by the jargon his organisation uses, what chance do academics have? Michael Loughlin says it is time for public servants to rise up and challenge...
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A nation on the brink?
A group of neo-fascist fundamentalist Hindus is waging a politico-religious war against India's Muslim minority. If it wins, it could herald the end of the world's largest democracy, argues Ian...