First words of wisdom
Identifying and educating very able children is fraught with difficulty. But higher education may provide the answer. Tony Tysome reports. When Ian Murray arrived at nursery school to pick up his son...
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A rocky path for 'roll-over option'
Don't," said a particularly perceptive member of our university senate during a sombre debate on funding last week, "don't let us be trapped into thinking that there is no alternative to locally...
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A novel, super concept
I respond to a bookstore like a gambler to a casino. And for many years my Las Vegas was London. Indeed, ever since my days as a postgraduate student in London, I could never sleep on the overnight...
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Don's Diary
SUNDAY. Three days to my PhD viva. I alternate between blind panic and profound gloom. Finish re-reading my thesis for the third time. Any "original contribution to knowledge" seems to have...
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Spirit moves
If your diarist (THES, February 16, Antithesis) wishes to exalt religious fervour among the Christian sects at Leicester University, he should at least get the facts right. The events diary in...
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Mergers, marriages and unions
I was bemused to read Alison Utley's article which referred to the AUT's strategy to create a single union for higher education. The presumption behind the editorial was that only academic staff...
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Freedom to multiply
The opinions expressed by your panel of experts on the problem of population growth in the third world (THES, February 16) all rather missed the point. To argue that population growth induces...
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Peter backs Paul
I write in cross-sectoral support of Ruth Gee's reasonable plea for better recognition of further education (THES, February 9). Not only the sheer size of the further education student population but...
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Rationale for Dearing
Gillian Shephard on why she has set up the review Britain's higher education system has long been acknowledged to be one of the best in the world. Over the years, it has produced thousands of men and...
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Blarney obscures peace process
Your editorial "Study The Question" (THES, February 16) encouraging a role for academia in the resolution of the conflict in Northern Ireland was at once both admirable and depressing. You were...
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Name calling
By one of those happy quirks thrown up by parliamentary timetables, Gillian Shephard's announcement last Monday of the Dearing committee on higher education followed on directly from Attorney General...
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Dream signing for Harvard
Henry Louis Gates, the literary critic and New Yorker writer, called it the "coup of the coups" when Harvard University finally poached William Julius Wilson from the University of Chicago. Professor...
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Writing's on the wall for sexual diseases
No you will not contract a sexually transmitted disease from a toilet seat. Though if you sit on one of the lavatories at one Canadian university regularly you can read why. The University of...
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Kingston's healthy future
Your recent report "Kingston wrests longer nurse training contract from NHS" (THES, February 9) needs clarification. The contract between South Thames Regional Health Authority, St George's Hospital...
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Paper tiger roars again
It is quite natural for Damien Keown (THES, February 9 "Caxton: is he dead or merely resting?") to remark, as have other reviewers of the book, on the irony that a "subversive proposal" for paperless...