Letter: Homo truths
When eyebrows began to be raised about the political correctness of the phrase "ad hominem" (Letters, THES , August 10, 17) I asked my father, a retired classicist, for a view. He tells me that homo...
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Letter: Doing a number
The rise in the pass rate at A level ("A-level horde prompts calls for more cash", THES , August 17) reminds me of when I was a maths student and criticised one of the final-year exams as being "...
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Letter: Immune therapy
Having collaborated with Abraham Karpas on some articles on passive immune therapy ("Medics see red over bad blood", THES , July 6), I can confirm that statistical evidence favours the therapy's...
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Letter: Why I am prepared to step down (1)
While there are obvious problems debating relations between the Association of University Teachers and Natfhe when many members are on holiday, your editorial was most welcome (Leader, THES , August...
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Letter: Why I am prepared to step down (2)
Perhaps I should declare my interest for the post of AUT general secretary after all. The first job would be to crack a few AUT executive and Natfhe heads together. How parochial that some union...
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Letter: 'Scary' talents of PhDs
As a fellow mature postgraduate, I empathise with the plight of Chris Willis and others entering the job market (Letters, THES , August 24). But Willis will probably find that age and set ideas held...
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Letter: Ask the audience
Kate Exley offers advice for combating passivity in large first-year lectures (Teaching, THES, July 6), but there is technology that can help scaffold the steps she...
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Letter: Earning and learning
I understand the need to provide your readers with the full facts of student life, but your article on students combining work and study ("Odd jobs are ever more common", THES , August 17) did not...
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Letter: Toying with internet
I remember when pushing the boundaries on computer networks was the accepted norm ("Was Janet 'raped' by a nerd?", THES , August 10). Today's internet activities require confidence and reliability of...
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Leader: Simple salve to heal the quality rift
University leaders may welcome John Randall's departure from the Quality Assurance Agency, but it could turn out to be a Pyrrhic victory. That will depend on whether ministers consider the new regime...
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The naive optimist
Bjorn Lomborg has grabbed headlines by questioning the value of the Kyoto Protocol. But while Lomborg might be a sceptical environmentalist, he is no Bu****e propagandist, argues Fred Pearce. I'm not...
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Take the road to a musical paradise
Students with a bit of money can escape for a summer of music among the stars. Christopher Wood reports. Music students not constrained by poverty to toil in a pub or a burger bar during July and...
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Is time merely the measure which we fall apart?
Time appears to move in a single direction - in which order is gradually replaced by chaos, says Mark Buchanan. But if this is so, how did the universe achieve its initial state? What is time? "If...
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How Mother Nature makes a super Father Time tick
Time can be 'clocked' in different ways but how old is it and does it have a future? John D. Barrow reports. Until the early years of the 20th century, time was seen as an inflexible ticking clock...
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From today's UK papers
Guardian The resignation of John Randall, chief executive of the Quality Assurance Agency, has been greeted with glee by universities Independent Aaron Hertzmann, of New York University, has...