Letter: Value in the old 2
The percentage of any university's students that come from lower social groups cannot be measured against a national norm as most students from these groups study locally. Recent research...
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Letter: Feel the quality, not the volume 2
The vice-chancellors of Lancaster, Umist and York argue for a research assessment exercise league table based on total staff ("Rankled by rankings", Letters, THES , January 18). This is not...
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Letter: Feel the quality, not the volume 1
The vice-chancellors of Lancaster, Umist and York correctly point out that research league tables are usually based on misleading assumptions about staff not submitted to the RAE. Such people are...
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Letter: Feel the quality, not the volume 3
Surely the underpinning problem with RAE league-table construction, or at least the particular problem identified by the vice-chancellors, is that we are trying to describe and rank, using a single...
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Letter: Feel the quality, not the volume 4
The Lancaster vice-chancellor and his colleagues are right that it is almost impossible to calculate an accurate league table of RAE performance in the face of the strategic non-submission of active...
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Letter: Feel the quality, not the volume 5
The size effect in the RAE results ("How the 'small world' effect skews results," THES , January 18) relates to unit of assessment size, not department size. In the five largest units, each panel...
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Letter: Interview hell
Peter Hartley ("Interview success is virtually guaranteed", THES , January 18) offers an interesting training for candidates facing an interview. But it assumes a rationality that is not always...
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'Pugh's book is full of errors'
On June 11 2000, The Observer published an article with the headline "Diary reveals lesbian love trysts of suffragette leaders". It referred to Martin Pugh's forthcoming book, which the newspaper...
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'Purvis's claims damage herself'
It is good policy not to criticise books on the basis of newspaper articles written 18 months before publication. In The Pankhursts I do not say that Emmeline or Christabel Pankhurst were lesbians;...
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The Pankhursts - politics and passion
The women's suffrage movement provoked strong reactions and emotions at the beginning of the 20th century. At the start of the 21st century, debate about the topic is just as heated, says Harriet...
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Next on the agenda: genocide. Then drinks
Almost exactly 60 years ago, in a grand villa in elegant and cosmopolitan Berlin-Wannsee, 15 senior officials met to chat about mass murder. The invitations had come from Reinhard Heydrich, Himmler's...
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Where was God when evil struck?
To mark National Holocaust Memorial Day, Dan Cohn-Sherbok looks at how Jewish and Christian theologians have radically reconsidered God and His relation to man in light of Nazi horrors, while Mark...
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Is a child soldier a 'child' in the eyes of the law?
As the UN prepares to publish its report on the aftermath of war in Sierra Leone, Richard Wilson reports on the difficulties of intervention in third-world countries and the potential for abuse by...
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Professor, politician, and man of peace
Sari Nusseibeh's career straddles politics and academia, an approach he believes is essential in the pursuit of peace between Palestine and Israel. Helena Flusfeder reports. Sari Nusseibeh, president...
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Barcelona European Council: Commission launches proposal for comprehensive biotechnology policy
Brussels, 23 January 2002 The European Commission today adopted a major policy initiative for the development of life sciences and biotechnology in Europe. This is one of the main building blocks of...