A lack of maturity
Despite the AUT action (above), this year has seen few "clearing chaos" tales. The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service has become adept at coping with tens of thousands of applicants who...
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Star scholars shine in all skies
So compelling was the picture painted by Professor Blackburn et al about opportunities in North America for har-assed United Kingdom academics (THES, July 30) that I thought some ex-ex-pat should...
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Pay rise put in motion
As The THES rightly notes (August 20), Natfhe is calling for a major inquiry into further education pay and conditions at this year's Trades Union Congress conference. However, I am sure that THES...
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Meningitis fear
While I understand why students are concerned about meningitis and want all the protection available, I do not think it is in anyone's interests to believe they are protected when they may not be....
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Case of PHD blues
According to BBC Radio 4's Today programme (August 1 9), PHD ý or Post Holiday Depression ý is at long last a recognised psychiatric condition. As I have an official-looking piece...
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Vision misinterpreted
The prediction by Eric Atwell in The Language Machine is unduly alarmist (THES, July 23). The technology required for a machine to translate the spoken word (ie interpret) involves a combination of...
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Decoding the earth's history through the rock of ages
Stepping Stones
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, proves it takes one to know one - the author served as a naval intelligence officer during the last war: "...
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Oceanic soundings
Oxford Composer Companions: J. S. Bach
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Talking patua in Calcutta
Kalighat Painting
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Wars, laws and deadly spores
Biological Weapons - Crimes of War
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Germans prune cultural offshoots
The 250th anniversary of Goethe's birth hasn't stopped Berlin taking a funding axe to the institutes that bear his name. Jennie Brookman reports. Former German chancellor Willy Brandt called the...
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The reX files
Is the idea of a telepathic tabby completely barking? Rupert Sheldrake says his experiments prove that pets have paranormal powers, but Susan Blackmore, right, is one of several academics disputing...
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Soya beans are political hot potatoes
The green mob that shouted down geneticist Steve Jones (left) makes him fear for the future of GM foods. He tells Kam Patel the problem is not one of science. Recently the geneticist and popular...
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Sits. vac Pounds 98,000m (no popes please)
If you want to earn big money as an academic - go east. Dino Mahoney moved to Hong Kong, which, despite the Asian crash, still pays the highest academic salaries in the world. The one question...