Letter: In brief 2
I have just learned from James Graham (Books, THES , October 12) that Gutenberg invented printing and thus defined the Renaissance. Did William Gilbert's invention of the magnetic compass provide a...
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Letter: In brief 3
Christians rely on the words of Lord Darling more often than do lawyers. That Nicholas Maude, finance director of London Guildhall University does (Letters, October 26), throws light on the dark...
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Letter: No, minister 1
"Universities are not the birthright for the middle classes," states education secretary Estelle Morris ( THES , October 26), but that is exactly what is happening under the present policy. In the...
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Letter: No, minister 2
So Estelle Morris intends to redefine higher education and wants "the presence of someone from higher education (to become) run-of-the-mill..." in schools. The Oxford English Dictionary defines run-...
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Letter: No, minister 3
Paul Ormerod is concerned about Estelle Morris's exhortation to universities to work with regional development agencies and local industry groups to produce research and teaching that is "relevant"...
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Letter: Invert that snobbery 1
In my experience, students cannot distinguish between "old" and "new" universities ("Students swayed by the old school", THES , October 26). Indeed, I have had to provide my research staff, some of...
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Letter: Invert that snobbery 2
Surely John Harwood and Mike Tomlinson must realise what a demoralising effect their comments on quality have on staff in further education colleges ("LSC chief defends comments", THES , October 19...
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Letter: Invert that snobbery 3
Paul Taylor (Soapbox, THES , October 26) provides discourse enough to underpin the looming barriers to progression from further into higher education. There is an obverse to his argument that there...
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Letter: Lack of places produces bias
Addressing gender barriers to career advancement within higher education is a complex issue, but Helen Hague's article ("How to make the old dinosaurs sing and dance to the tune of the new-girl...
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Leader: Nobody can win when there's no real choice
The Association of University Teachers needs a new general secretary. Finding the right person calls for a procedure consistent with the criteria of open and fair practice that the AUT is urging on...
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Leader: Success of pay system requires speed and unity
New pay negotiating machinery is lumbering into action. The Dearing report recommended a review of academic pay in 1997. The Bett committee, when eventually established, did not report until 1999,...
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Two fingers sure say a lot
Differences in our digits, visible in the womb, can predict much about the life that lies ahead of us, argues John Manning. Think of a foetus and its environment. What comes to mind? An individual...
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Clever brains stump the inquiring minds
In our series on Big Science Questions, Harriet Swain looks at controversies over intelligence and Robert Plomin discusses the crucial role of genetics. For a quality traditionally associated with...
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'g' is for ability but it's also for genes
In our series on Big Science Questions, Harriet Swain looks at controversies over intelligence and Robert Plomin discusses the crucial role of genetics The word "intelligence" means so many different...
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Stuck at the last temporal turnstile
Time travel is not just the stuff of science fiction, argues physicist Paul Davies, but to make it real we need a 'theory of everything' In 1905, just ten years after the appearance of H. G. Wells's...