Letter: 'Not really dead'
The 19th century could be a time of horror to an informed person ("Plight of the living dead", THES, April 20). Hans Christian Andersen, for example, lived in constant fear of airborne diseases that...
The 19th century could be a time of horror to an informed person ("Plight of the living dead", THES, April 20). Hans Christian Andersen, for example, lived in constant fear of airborne diseases that...
Mike Hulme is right to stress that responsibility for implementing the Kyoto protocol falls to each and every one of us (Letters, THES , April 20). Governments and their policies, however, shape the...
Imperial College has no intention of charging students fees in addition to those levied by government ("Doctor quits Imperial over fees", THES , April 20). The charging of top-up fees is illegal. We...
You made a lively piece out of Imperial College's application for degree-awarding powers ("Imperial bids for degrees", THES , April 20) but the reality is more prosaic. It is University of London...
You quote a spokesman of the Higher Education Funding Council for England as doubting that universities would agree to regional planning of subject provision because they were autonomous ("Lecturers...
Abolishing tenure was supposed to make British universities more likely to give people permanent jobs because it would be easier to make staff redundant in hard times. It did not work out that way....

Universities that are investing in distance education will eventually earn back funds through such unrelated areas as decreased traffic congestion and freed-up classroom space, a Canadian researcher...
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work originally entitled Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World : "My father had a small...
Persia and the West

Howard Glennerster finds working families are losing out in the US. Those familiar with Theda Scokpol's early writing will remember her as a brilliant social historian of America's early welfare...
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Paranoid Parenting
The Mystery of Courage