If it ain't broke, don't fix it
Would devolution aid Scottish higher education? Was Dearing right about Scottish participation rates and medicine? THE SCOTTISH university system is already significantly devolved. Since 1992 there...
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Prescription needs altering
Would devolution aid Scottish higher education? Was Dearing right about Scottish participation rates and medicine? "NOTHING much here for me" was my first reaction to a skim through Dearing. Perhaps...
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Forthright it is not
Eric Forth was the last higher education minister of the Thatcher/Major era. He piloted the abortive "twin-track" student loan system through Parliament. He ignored a report containing a perfectly...
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Library placings
It was pleasing to see the report by Kam Patel which recognised the rapidly changing nature of librarianship (THES, August 22). However it is not true that in the last research assessment exercise...
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A Brand of controversy
Julia Hinde's article ("Branded an outcast", THES, August 15) describes as "controversial" certain of Chris Brand's views, namely that there is a general intelligence factor (g), that it can be...
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A Brand of controversy
ANDREW MARKS'S letter (THES, August 22) represented the right way to deal with Brand's stream of puerile nonsense - to demolish it by argument - but it was absolutely the wrong reaction to the news...
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Renaissance scientists
Danish students preferring not to continue with science (THES, August 1) reminds me of a teacher's comment when I gave a talk at her school nearly 30 years ago that "the best educated girls in this...
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The roots of rape
SUE LEES is seriously misleading in her review of Bernard Lefkowitz (THES, August 29). The gang rape which took place in King's Cross, London was not carried out by English boys in what was an...
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Plight of the mature
Annette O'Hara "Down and out by degrees" (THES, August 29) admirably highlighted the plight of the mature student with a family to support. However, although drawing a graphic picture of almost...
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Why two parents are not a panacea
I was perplexed by the solution proposed by Paul Ormerod and Robert Rowthorn ("Why family ties bind the nation", THES, August 29). Contrary to their belief that "it is mainly men who break their (...
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Why two parents are not a panacea
Paul Ormerod and Robert Rowthorn have some good ideas about stabilising the family through encouraging marriage and avoiding divorce. Preventing unsuitable marriages in the first place might go a...
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Why two parents are not a panacea
While your article (THES, August 22) gave examples of successful job-sharing of academic positions, these cannot provide the whole answer to the problems of combining careers and families. There are...
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Learning to serve up the cake
OUTSIDE Durban there are two education campuses within a few hundred yards of each other. Mangosuthu Technikon swarmed with students at the beginning of the winter semester: at the Umlazi campus of...
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Several steps ahead for the union dues
I WILL always remember the morning that Leon Brittan resigned from the Cabinet over the Westland affair. It was a marvellous occasion ripe with drama and intrigue. The great, the good and the bag...
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Don's Diary
Monday Academic researchers are often caricatured as crotchety old men hidden in ivory towers, from which only rarely do they descend to walk among mere mortals. Ten days ago when press coverage of...