The third way to error and confusion
This is not just a book. It is part of what Simon Schama proudly calls "the project". When complete, this project will consist of two illustrated books (the second, The Fate of Empire, 1603-2001, to...
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Take a literary Dance lesson
A Writer's Notebook
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Untangling France's war legends
The Collaborator - The Death of Jean Moulin
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The supra-human goes out for a jog
Gandhi's Body
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Quiet lives hit troubled times
Contemporary Buddhist Ethics - Transforming the Mind
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work by a philosopher with a Nobel prize in literature: " Is there any knowledge in the world which...
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Bishops lurking in bushes
Varieties of Unbelief
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Laurie Taylor
"Men are invited to apply for editorships of journals - women have to seek out these opportunities" Report from Women in Higher Education conference, THES December 1. Lapping speaking. Gordon, you...
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Letter: stub out BAT cash
So Nottingham University is to accept £3.8 million from British American Tobacco to teach corporate social responsibility. (Now I have seen everything. Or is it just a matter of time before someone...
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Letter: bad book marks
The book reviews section is often the most intellectually exciting part of The THES . It is a shame that you have let yourself down by publishing (December 1) a sneering review of Jonathon Porritt's...
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Letter: a lukewarm lobby (1)
I welcome Peter Knight's article (Soapbox, THES , December 1) and his criticisms of the former Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals. Its record in lobbying government is not a good one. Where...
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Letter: a lukewarm lobby (2)
Universities UK is a misnomer (Leader, THES , December 1). Like its predecessor, the vice-chancellors committee remains, as John Griffith observed in 1989, no more than a collection of individuals...
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Letter: Oxford's management malaise
John Kay ("So we agree not to agree", THES , November 24), turns a timely and usefully harsh and penetrating spotlight on the governance of Oxford University, illustrating that the institution's...
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Letter: goodwill talking
I was interested by Nina Lemmens's letter ( THES , December 1), in which she mentions the new strategy of the British Council in Germany and how this affects academic exchange programmes run in...