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A Matter of Taste
A Matter of Taste
Encyclopaedia of the Viking Age
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel by an author obsessed with sin and guilt: "Wilson sat on the balcony of the Bedford Hotel with...
Well, a surprise victory there for the Liberal Democrats in a traditionally Conservative seat. Let us go straight over to Professor Stubbins for his analysis. Professor Stubbins, a surprise victory...
You refer to 60 voluntary redundancies at Imperial College School of Medicine ("London faces mass academic job losses", THES , June 1). This gives me an idea for a question for this summer's...
Your article on job cuts suggests we are close to a meltdown in foreign languages provision in some areas of the capital. London First, the organisation that promotes the development of the capital's...
Until three years ago, I was an academic in a "new" British university. I left to pursue better pay and conditions in the private sector, but was dismayed at the loss of quality of life. So I came...
Thank you for your report of Natfhe's conference ("Union campaigns to scrap QAA", THES , June 1). It was both informative and lively; rather like the event itself. But I was surprised to read your...
More than half a century after the end of the second world war, there is still an inability to deal maturely with the moral issues raised by the bombing of Dresden (Books, THES , May 25). In...
It is odd that the apologists confuse the issue. No one denies the courage of bomber command crews - they did their duty but did not know better. The Dresden raid was an atrocity, of that there is no...
In the course of preparing for the latest research assessment exercise and an impending Quality Assurance Agency visit, I have noticed a rather worrying discrepancy between the two concerning...
Tony Dennis's prediction that the new universities are likely to become, in effect, technical colleges that offer only a limited range of vocational subjects (Letters, THES , June 1) seems right. At...
Roger Matthews and Jock Young raise a very important issue regarding the silence of academic criminology on the government's criminal justice policies. ("We'll raise you seven prisons", THES , June 1...
Our ordered state of higher education, where a university is a university is a university, is again threatened. The characteristics of UK universities are defined in every university charter. These...
Dear Ministers, As this is written, voters have yet to go to the polls. When it is read, we will know their verdict. Today and in the next few days, you will be taking up (or returning to) your...