Letter: Labour pains of working mums (3)
Your article is one of the first I have read where an academic has gone into print on the very sensitive subject of whether women put in far more hours than men. If the government's transparency...
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Letter: Commonwealth funds
Readers may draw the wrong conclusions from your report on the continued funding of the Commonwealth of Learning owing to how you juxtaposed our written reports, oral presentation and ministerial...
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Letter: Running battle
Perdita Stevens and her colleagues (Letters, THES, December 1) query my statement that mathematical ability is gender-linked. There are many sources of data on the distribution of mathematical...
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Letter: Pension fuming
Academics who criticise Nottingham for taking tobacco cash should scrutinise their pension plans. When I was offered membership of the Universities' Superannuation Scheme, more than 10 per cent of...
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Letter: Flak for all hacks (1)
David Palfreyman's points to a problem with "well-meaning amateur dons as part-time committee hacks" (Letters, THES, December 8). That problem is far worse in Cambridge, and it concerns me that...
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Letter: Flak for all hacks (2)
Congratulations to David Palfreyman on sending me to the dictionary twice and causing me mentally to draw breath three times while reading one of his sentences. Oxford lives... Beverley Thompson...
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Letter: God help us (1)
As a member of a small theology department that has the misfortune of having to prepare for both the research assessment exercise and a subject review visit, my thoughts have been turning to the long...
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Letter: God help us (2)
Although I read Peter Atkins's review of Ian Barbour's When Science Meets Religion (Books, THES, December 8) with salacious pleasure, I could not help feeling that someone who was really so sure of...
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Letter: Pollsters or dolesters?
Pollsters and journalists despair because they failed to predict the outcome of the United States presidential elections ("Red faces over White House forecast fiasco", THES, November 17). Perhaps...
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Letter: Ethics and Burma
Beverley Drumm (Letters, THES, December 8) made some excellent points. But I disagree on one issue. To imply that to enter a dictatorship on a research visa endorsed by a host government ministry is...
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Modern Languages Association conference 2000
The MLA's conference has been called a 'passion of solemnity', but with subjects ranging from Greek musicals to jailed writers, you are bound to find something to your taste. Criminals, perverts and...
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MLA: speaking out and spreading the word
"If", The Rime of the Ancient Mariner , The Ballad of Reading Gaol , a Shakespeare sonnet - could you name your favourite poem? In the United States, Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" tops the poll...
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MLA: Brave new words
Tim Cornwell finds out how Lynne Cheney and her 'political potboiler' fit into MLA history The rightwing's favourite cultural hawk is back. Under president Ronald Reagan, Lynne Cheney carried the...
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MLA: Behind bars, then out in the cold
Malawian poet Jack Mapanje is writing his account of the three and a half years in prison that blighted a promising career. Chris Bunting met him in York When Jack Mapanje was arrested by the...
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MLA: apartheid's blind spot - the albino terrorist
Breyten Breytenbach's prison narrative The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist provides an interesting response to life in prison. Breytenbach, one of South Africa's best-known Afrikaner poets,...