Labor's defeat signals turmoil
The conservatives' staggering win in Australia's federal election last weekend is expected to lead to severe disruption on university campuses. Higher education unions warned this week that they...
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The ruinous ghost of empire past
When blind eyes are turned to the past, eyes that no longer see the racism and exploitation of the British Empire but blaze with the remembered glory of a triumphant dominance, then a confection-like...
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Vile bodies
Our thought is so obsessed with the body that it has become trapped in a carcass of its own making. Valentine Cunningham believes it is time to move on. We are all somaticists nowadays. Like Philip...
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More classic lines
John Davies discovers in these culturally relative times that even the canon in Greek and Latin is not immune to revision. There has been much debate in recent years over the worth and composition of...
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Don's diary
SATURDAY. Hateful rain sheets down. Still, set off for Oxford to visit friend's daughters, one reading chemistry and the other English. Both have college rooms that are quite palatial compared to...
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Sorry Ollie
Just a nitpicking correction to the phrase quoted from Oliver Hardy in "Does the Rt Hon Lady . . ." (THES, Feb 23). It should have been "That's another fine mess you've GOTTEN me into!" Perhaps I...
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How to turn the league tables
To celebrate International Women's day today, The Times published a "league table", listing the 100 most powerful women in the world. While the criteria used for ranking potential candidates (...
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Fire-bombs and fights scar election run-up
As general elections on April 21 draw closer, political tension is mounting among Italian student groups. At Rome's La Sapienza University, a lecturer's home was fire-bombed and there have been...
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Survey exposes absenteeism and lack of interest
Only one in three Greek university students attend sclasses regularly, according to a survey carried out by the school of philosophy of the University of Athens. The survey, based on the answers to a...
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The 30-year call for help
A protest by students and teachers at France's prestigious oriental languages institute is the latest twist in a long-running saga. Since 1964, its staff and pupils have been calling for more space...
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Selection perfection
The Research Assessment Exercise raises hackles everywhere. David Smith, below, argues against selectivity on efficiency and equity grounds. University departments are gearing up for the next...
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Disbelief in disunity
The AUCL rightly points out that academic staff in the new universities and colleges receive lower pay on average than their counterparts in the old universities and that this is caused by the fact...
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Disbelief in disunity
It would be unfair and disappointing to the ordinary members of Natfhe and the AUT to end the debate in these columns on such a note of bitter division. Each organisation should cease to defend its...
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Disbenefit in disunity
Those correspondents from the Association of University Teachers who have been confused by the Natfhe policy in higher education (Michael Leat et al, and Alan Carr, THES, March 1) should have paid...
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Atmosphere of condescension in SF review
Graeme Harper's sympathetic review of five books of recent science fiction criticism (THES, March 1) is marred by an (unintentional?) air of condescension in the final paragraph where he writes that...