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  2. First impressions

    This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a manifesto written in prison : "It has turned out fortunate for me today that Destiny appointed...

    #Books

  3. Laurie Taylor

    Morning, Maureen. MORNING, MAUREEN! Ah, Professor Lapping. Cat got your tongue? No, no. I was waiting for a fax from Dr Piercemuller about his conference expenses and got caught up in an article by...

    #Laurie

  4. Letter: Stop stress and disadvantage 4

    The Home Office has just awarded us a grant to assist refugees, particularly with respect to post-school education ("Red tape is throttling talent", THES , November 16). The home secretary has also...

    #Opinion

  5. Letter: Clash of ideas 1

    Thomas Meyer says the idea of a clash of civilisations - Islam and the West - plays into the hands of rightwing fundamentalists and segregationism ("A fundamental fallacy", THES , November 9). But...

    #Opinion

  6. Letter: Clash of ideas 2

    Where is Islam's contribution to social science (Letters, THES , November 16)? Science demands testing theories by evidence and rational principles. The myth of the Koran as the direct word of God...

    #Opinion

  7. Letter: Hidden assets 1

    As an administrator, I was delighted, at last, to read something about the admin side of higher education ("Underpaid, overlooked", THES , November 16). But I take issue with the term "non-academic"...

    #Opinion

  8. Letter: Hidden assets 2

    I wholeheartedly agree with Val Atkinson in her splendid article and I'm sure there is a "Maureen" in every school, faculty and department throughout the country. The problem for universities will...

    #Opinion

  9. Letter: Hidden assets 3

    Valerie Atkinson's article rings true. Most departmental secretaries are graduates with high-level, wide-ranging capabilities in IT, webpages, interpersonal skills, departmental PR etc. Additionally...

    #Opinion

  10. Letter: An offer to refuse 1

    After reading Ron Iphofen's proposed contract (Soapbox, THES , November 9), any potential PhD student considering taking up a place would be justified in saying: "No thanks, I'll go somewhere where I...

    #Opinion

  11. Letter: An offer to refuse 2

    Please thank Ron Iphofen, and Rachel Brookes and David Dennison (Readers' reactions, THES , November 16) for a tailor-made teaching material for our postgraduate research student generic training...

    #Opinion

  12. Letter: Poor policies

    Kenneth Baker, who opposes graduate tax (Opinion, THES , November 16), has not woken up to the fact that most graduates no longer vote Tory because of its policy on the issue. Even so, he is right....

    #Opinion

  13. Letter: What price success?

    Annette Zera, principal of Tower Hamlets College, says the leadership model proposed for further education "appears to rely hugely on audit and bureaucracy combined with fairly damning criticism. We...

    #Opinion

  14. Letter: Stop stress and disadvantage 1

    Staff at the University of Wolverhampton are off sick with stress. This is not the news that any vice-chancellor wants to acknowledge and yet Tony Tysome correctly identifies a problem of stress-...

    #Opinion

  15. Letter: Stop stress and disadvantage 2

    I agree that "it's a painful time to be in the minority" (Features, THES , November 16), especially when minority ethnic student numbers are rising and widening participation strategies abound, yet...

    #Opinion