Right funds anti-PC drive
Boston. TWELVE of America's biggest conservative foundations are pouring money into fellowships that support like-minded students and scholars, academic conferences, faculty chairs and scholarly...
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End of Labour honeymoon?
In our second of our series recalling the big issues in the Dearing debate John Ashworth considers university management IT IS time to get back to basics. The primary job of the committee of inquiry...
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Imagination and inspiration, please
This week Britain's university leaders have been meeting in private conclave in Strathclyde. The Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals have a number of thorny issues to confront. What are they...
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Whither Scotland?
Peter Scott looks at the post-referendum prospects for universities north of the border What are the prospects for Scottish universities in the context, first, of the likely evolution of the Union...
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League tables merit improvement
Geoffrey Alderman argues for a more rational, transparent and credible system of comparing universities and their achievements The Dearing report gives on the new Quality Assurance Agency the task of...
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Long-term fees gain
In his article, "Blunkett's funding muddle" (THES, August 29), Ben Jackson criticised the stance of the National Union of Students and student unions across the country for accepting the loss of...
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Little room for error
With regard to "A work of art that's brutal to work in" (THES, September 5), there are a number of matters to dispute. First, when you first approached Sandra Dawson, it was with a request that we...
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Truths and facts in history
Richard Evans is to be congratulated on raising the tone of the history and theory debate ("Truth lost in vain views", Perspective, THES, September 12). However, as an historian who "does" both...
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Truths and facts in history
PROFESSOR Evans is in no way to blame for linking Michel Foucault to the postmodernist label because so many others have done so; but he is mistaken all the same. I believe that Foucault's only...
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Truths and facts in history
Richard Evans makes some effective points about postmodernist approaches to history. However, years of hand-to-hand fighting with postmodernists in seminar rooms suggest to me that he will need to be...
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Truths and facts in history
PROFESSOR Evans is right to criticise the potential narcissism of postmodern approaches to historical study, but he should not overlook the problems raised by such approaches. Any attempt to...
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Truths and facts in history
Richard Evans was partly wrong about Edward Thompson in his anti-postmodernist polemic. Ironic, in that Evans was insisting that it is the quality of evidence that can distinguish the worth of one...
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Luton's case of antithesis
THE chortling in your Antithesis column (THES, September 12) about Luton's Investors in People status is, I am happy to say, premature. We have not lost our IiP recognition: we were visited in July,...
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Don's Diary
Monday A start-of-term feeling pervades the office. In July a ballot authorised the merger between the Association of University and College Lecturers and the Association of University Teachers and...
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Valued for access or attributes?
What is the societal function of universities? Equal and better access is supposed to level the educational terrain but how does this manifest in what Carol Schneider calls the public square or what...