Warwick and conflict of interest
Vice-chancellors' concerns about Diana Warwick's elevation to become a working Labour peer are quite right ("Warwick peerage splits CVCP", THES, July 9). There is a conflict of interest and no matter...
Vice-chancellors' concerns about Diana Warwick's elevation to become a working Labour peer are quite right ("Warwick peerage splits CVCP", THES, July 9). There is a conflict of interest and no matter...
Graham Zellick's argument (Soapbox, THES, July 9) seems based on two misrepresentations. Diana Warwick will speak and act in the Lords in her personal capacity and not on behalf of the CVCP. There is...
I was amused by one of Graham Zellick's reasons for resigning from the CVCP over the Diana Warwick affair: "We were not consulted and senior people such as vice-chancellors do not take kindly to such...
The article on radical orthodoxy gives a misleading impression of the movement ("Angels in dirty places", THES, July 2). First, it is true we ascribe to a Credal orthodoxy. At the same time, we...
The low intellectual level of the trendy movement called radical orthodoxy is evinced in the quoted statement of Graham Ward, one of its leaders, that the "positivist view of materiality" held by...
In "How to help students who fail exams" (Teaching, THES, July 9) one important factor was overlooked - failures due to faults with examinations. Although examiners are usually subject experts, few...
Your publication of an extract from my recent letter to the Quality Assurance Agency in the story "Students reject complaints code" (THES, July 2) failed to bring out that I welcomed the QAA draft as...
Following the reference to Durham University in the context of freemasons (Letters, THES, July 2), could I make a couple of points? Two masonic lodges with "Durham University" in their titles were...
The issue of access and access funds to university for mature and disabled students is very relevant to the series of articles you are running ("Living on borrowed time", THES, July 9), as is funding...
My advice "book a passage to Zambia" (Star turn, THES, July 9) was in response to the question "if it's cloudy in Cornwall, when is the next chance to see a total solar eclipse?" and my answer...
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