OU taps in to windfall
The article "Universities slow to tell students of tax windfall" (THES, June 6) failed to mention that the Open University has been offering vocational training relief on a number of its courses...
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A challenge to the Hera antagonists
Temperate criticism is not usually the hallmark of Association of University Teachers and Natfhe, the college lecturers' union. When Jill Jones and Alan Carr (THES letters, June 13) argue that "...
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The truth is out there
I was slightly surprised to read that Sandy Wolfson's research suggested that many Trekkies show addict-like symptoms, as according to the summary of her research which she showed me last year (and...
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Operational research
At a time when the qualitative standing and role of higher education are under close scrutiny, it is perhaps surprising and certainly unfortunate that a senior commentator (professor and dean of...
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Rorty the reactionary
I was delighted to read Sean Sayers's article on Richard Rorty (THES, June 6). On the one hand, I am the first to support academic freedom, on the other I am also the first to argue that that freedom...
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Don's Diary
Wednesday Anglia Television records news item about the court case I am seeking to bring against the university with respect to its promotion procedures. There are a lot of promotion candidates in...
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Battle over, anxiety takes hold
From Alan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind, Dinesh D'Souza's Illiberal Education, Roger Kimball's Tenured Radicals, Martin Anderson's Impostors in the Temple, to Lynne Cheney's Telling the...
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Principals, means and endings
In the past few weeks I have been working with John and Miriam Carver, the American gurus of governance in non-profit organisations. Their British audiences are greatly impressed by the simple but...
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Blood bank
(Photograph) - Biologist Angela Priestman is giving blood-sucking African mosquitoes a taste of their own medicine by sucking them from the walls of rural African houses after they have feasted. Dr...
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First Impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening line, comes from a novel, the film of which was described by its author as "the finished state of...
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Dining with death
Hugh Pennington, who led the inquiry into the fatal E.coli outbreak, calls for new food safety regulations, and explains how difficult it is to first trace the source of killer bugs and then get the...
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If we are what we eat then what are we eating? A new THES series examines food issues
DESCARTES is to blame. For centuries his much quoted tag, "I think therefore I am", has dominated our notion of ourselves and the world. The mind is the most valued and vital aspect of anyone, seemed...
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Prophet finds honour as government accepts safety recommendations
HUGH PENNINGTON is celebrating this week. He has just heard that the new Labour Government is to act on all the recommendations of his expert group, set up to look into last year's fatal food...
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Time for Mr Straw to rock the jailhouse boat
The home secretary should consider a more imaginative approach to the use of imprisonment, argues Sean McConville. No news was the best news for penal policy in the Queen's Speech. Five flawed...
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Twain's outing
A biography of Mark Twain that claims he had several gay encounters has added a new twist to a literary legend. Tim Cornwell reports. Andy Hoffman has dropped a bombshell on the world of Mark Twain...