It's over to you, Maureen
Letter to Maureen for Professor Lapping, University of Poppleton. Please send Ms Williams along to us at the University of Central Lancashire. She might be interested in applying for our Winifred...
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When a refugee is stranded in funding limbo
Changes to overseas student fees and awards rules will exclude asylum seekers, warns Michael Brophy. Given the number of stories and reports in the media about the plight of Rwandan, Bosnian and...
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Derby day for student funding
Students give up fight for free education", is the headline some would have us believe of the National Union of Students education funding review. But a much more considered process is going on...
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Private problems in Cyprus
Cyprus's flourishing private colleges are locked in dispute with government over accreditation of degree courses. After independence from Britain in 1960 the uneasy relationship between the Greek and...
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Queering the pitch
Campaigns for the acceptance of gay rights ironically accomplish exactly what homophobia aims to achieve - the elimination of gays, argues Leo Bersani (right). Gerard Kelly reports. The deliberations...
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A fight to the finish
Steve Fuller asks whether science puts an end to history or history to science? After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989, one intrepid ex-Sovietologist decided to project his plight upon the screen...
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Suspect hair, clear vision
Simon Targett talks to an ex-Cabinet minister who is bright enough to teach at Harvard, Shirley Williams. House of Lords. Peers' entrance. An odd place to meet a professor of elective politics, you...
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New centre of attention
We drove home late at night. Fortunately the taxi started at once. No light came from the streetlamps and not much from the few buildings along the road, making driving rather difficult. The driver...
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High ideals into practice do not go
How long will it take for "Nolanism" to enter our political vocabulary? Lord Nolan's report has been widely welcomed outside the house if not in it and its philosophical starting point or watchwords...
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Don's Diary
SATURDAY. Arrive in Toronto having been relayed from Manchester via the retail mecca which is today's Amsterdam Schiphol airport. The weather seems surprisingly mild. Spend the evening making hasty...
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Black rule hits league tables
The number of African students registered at South African universities has trebled in the past ten years - and for the first time last year more students were black than any other race group -...
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How demanding Latin would penalise state school pupils
Like Peter Jones in his article on classics (THES, May 19), I fear its demise through the restrictions of the national curriculum. I attended state school, studied Latin and Greek at school, went on...
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Specialist language and communication
It is to be hoped that more than just quantum physicists heed the message of Peter Holland (THES, May 12). Physicists, engineers, computer experts, managers, in fact many professionals seem to think...
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Guildhall called to account
The Majid case at London Guildhall University (THES, May 19) ought to be causing great public concern on three counts, apart from the central one of injustice to an individual. Guildhall has spent...
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Anti-academic sniping surrounds NVQ support
Discussion about higher level NVQs needs to emerge from the mire of simplistic publicity which accompanies their promotion and the parallel dismissal of any objection to them. There is a serious gap...