Lessons closer to home
The Bangkok gathering of heads of Asian and European governments earlier this month was unusual. It took one regional grouping, the Association of Southeast Asian States (ASEAN), to bring another,...
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Social scientists hide from the new
Looking around Britain, you would expect social science to be booming. High crime, persistent unemployment, underachieving men and underperforming institutions are crying out for explanation and...
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Don's diary
Tuesday. Arrive Hong Kong enveloped in a Manchester-like foggy gloom. After travelling in a toothpaste tube for eight hours, being disgorged on to Kai Tak airport was disconcerting. The volume of...
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Robbins's foregone conclusion
If the Robbins report is anything to go by, Dearing and his committee may decide to disregard the evidence presented to it when making their recommendations for higher education, says James Tooley....
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Asian trainspotting
In his review (THES, March 1) of Lester R Brown's book, Carl Riskin writes "rather than opting for a Japanese system of efficient rail transportation, China seems intent on promoting its motor...
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Importance of being managed
The research industry must look after its people and find financial backing by training researchers in management, says John Goddard Throughout the university system, final tweaks are being made to...
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Technical hitch for link-up
I read with interest your report (THES, March 8) that a new joint committee linking the National Council for Vocational Qualifications with the School Curriculum Authority has been set up. In...
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Psyched out
If some scientists fear the "sinister" power of social science (THES, March 1) it is surprising that they have entrusted the task of telling the public about scientific psychology matters to STEM (...
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Opus Dei sticks to the spirit
Paul Bompard's article from Italy ("Rectors accused of freemason link", THES, February 23) alleges that many rectors are freemasons and that, for some top jobs, masonic approval is needed "especially...
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Ironing Chile's wrinkles
I would like to add some information to your article "Chile Irons Out Market Wrinkles" (THES, December 8). The Chilean higher education system underwent great changes between 1981 and 1990. Some of...
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Chocolate box fantasy
If I were part of the ethnic minority population living in the Birmingham area, I would say that the quality of the maps at Cadbury World (pace Catherine Hall, THES March 8) was positively the least...
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Fair panels?
The Research Assessment Exercise will affect the distribution of considerable sums of public money, and involve issues of fairness to institutions and ultimately to individuals. Last time the...
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Plea for a sight and sound archive
Sir Anthony Kenny's article recommending the extension of legal deposit to the British Library to include non-print materials (THES, Multimedia Supplement, March 8) prompts a further suggestion. If...
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Pigs might fly all way home
Man with pig kidney is a 'long way' off" (THES, March 8). I suppose that's because he is going "wee wee wee" all the way home? ELIZABETH M. BATEY Whitegate, Northwich, Cheshire
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Critics convey confusing criticisms
Gordon Johnson's personal statement (THES, March 1) presents Cambridge University Press as holding off forces of "intimidation" that threaten from the outside. My recall is that it is the press's...