Making history
The most important message from Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont (THES, October 10) is that of the responsibility we academics owe to our students. It is essential that we openly recognise that different...
The most important message from Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont (THES, October 10) is that of the responsibility we academics owe to our students. It is essential that we openly recognise that different...
Andrew Adonis's diagnosis (THES, October 10) of the influence of Oxbridge is sound but does not go far enough. No other country has two universities which are so uniquely different from the rest of...
MARTHA Nussbaum provides a welcome challenge to the vocational trend in higher education (THES, October 3). However, if what she recommends can be summed up as liberal education for citizenship, we...
AN article on individual learning accounts (THES, October 10), implied that I was hostile to the concept and in particular that I had commented that the Bamford Taggs proposals were ill thought out....
Andrew Robinson's feature on Arthur C. Clarke (THES, October 10) is thorough and detailed, but I cannot help feeling that many recent commentators on Clarke are not articulating what makes him such a...
SEAN McConville (THES, October 10) raises some interesting questions about the nature of funding for criminological research but he over-simplifies the issues. First, the article fails to deal with...
We professors of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies of the University of London, wish to reassure Professor Carsten and his co-signatories (THES, October 3) that we have no intention of...
Speculation in your report that the National Union of Students "appears to have thrown in the towel" (THES, October 3) could not be further from the truth nor is it a fair reflection of the enormous...
Monday Here we are in the Black Lion Hotel in wild Wales after a hectic summer. In May I was appointed to the new chair of Judaism at the University of Wales, Lampeter. This is the only established...
UNIVERSITIES are caught between the devil and the deep blue sea over the funding crisis. Issues of principle and practicality are vying for central position. The extra Pounds 165 million for...
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The Sickening Mind