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...
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Letter: Burmese daze
As a School of Oriental and African Studies PhD student conducting research on Burma, I read your December 1 issue with interest. Phil Baty's article ("Scholar attacked for links to junta", about the...
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Soapbox: a crushing workload
Bureaucracy, home and child care are damaging women's career prospects, says Susan Bassnett. It is official: I work 57.5 hours a week. After taking part in the government's transparency review, which...
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Daily TV & radio guide - Friday
The Afternoon Play: The Starving Girl of Llanfihangel (2.15 R4). An actual event from 19th-century Welsh history dramatised by Mary Cooper. Russia: Gold Domes, Black Earth (8.30 World Service,...
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Higher Channels
It's not just the Elgin Marbles. Other British Museum artefacts, such as its Benin bronzes, which Nigeria would like back, are also under dispute. And what about the Native American pieces in Glasgow...