Radical aristocrat in a fight for freedom
In the thick of a violent struggle between police and student activists leading an illegal demonstration in Minsk, capital of Belarus, historian Luba Luynevoi looks an unlikely radical. A strikingly...
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Incestuous pollsters v. 'lazy' press
French poll findings can no longer be published before the final round of voting in France's legislative elections this Sunday, but the polling institutes' resident political scientists are still...
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Smarten up those baggy notions now
Perhaps it lacks the ring of Hartley Shawcross's infamous cry after Labour's 1945 landslide "We are the masters now", but "We are the regulators now" might do very well as the leitmotif for the 1997...
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Scholarly view transformed to legal tussle
THIS YEAR, for some academics, the relative quiet of the examination hall will be a prelude to more than the worry of mountainous stacks of scripts. It will prefigure society's other black-gown forum...
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Still breathing...
Are universities on their deathbeds? Ronald Barnett sees a flicker of life A recent paper raises the question: can we speak of the death of the university? That the end is nigh for the university may...
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Banking on change - the only safe investment
Professional bodies must lead rather than follow to stay relevant, says Gavin Shreeve PROFESSIONAL bodies in financial services which have as their remit the task of educating practitioners are...
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Natfhe facts file
IN EXAMINING unionisation of academics (THES, May 16) you should get the figures right and compare like with like. Within the total figure of 226,000 staff quoted in your article, new university and...
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Mission to explain
MARILYN Strathern of the University of Cambridge (Letters, THES, March 28) suggested that our views about improving universities' accountability, particularly for teaching and research activities ("...
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League table language gaps
THE INTRODUCTION to your university league tables (THES, May 23) draws attention to the anger engendered by The Times's attempt to rank universities. You refer to the exclusion of certain...
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League table language gaps
THE SUBJECT quality league table which you published is intended to help would-be students decide which university or college has the best teaching. In the case of modern languages it is incomplete...
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League table language gaps
THE INTRODUCTION to your subject quality league table points to the success of some new university departments. But there is one omission. Under English the missing RAE rating for the University of...
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League table language gaps
BATH College of Higher Education is mentioned three times in your subject quality league table. Like all the other colleges of higher education, it is excluded from your university league tables...
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The ceiling will cave in
I HAVE read with some concern the case of Gill Evans at the University of Cambridge and her long fight for an objective and transparent promotion procedure for all academic colleagues (THES, May 9)....
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Dialogue of the deaf
ARTHUR MARWICK's criticisms (THES, May 23) of postmodernism might command more respect if the manner in which they were made was less bellicose. Cliche and caricature, such as "the fight engulfing...
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Smart card for learning
IT IS good to hear that Sir Ron Dearing is looking towards individual learning accounts (THES, May 23). It would however be a grave mistake to have a separate system of accounts based only on higher...