The great unwashed
In the latest in our occasional series, Martyn Kelly talks to Richard Lacey about the latter's first published research, the conclusions of which have become accepted clinical practice Professor...
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Free range thinking
John Webster believes we spend too much time talking about animal rights and too little minimising animal suffering. Aisling Irwin met him What kind of man can hold, simultaneously, the following two...
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Found wanting, needs judgement
The merging of the Universities Funding Council and the Polytechnics and Colleges Funding Council sectors of higher education meant that the funding of universities coming from varying starting...
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Don's Diary
SUNDAY. Lazy day. Swim as usual for last hour before sunset. Greet consultant who meets us on beach as we come out. He has arrived today, from British Open University, and has been working with us...
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Waiting for the Czech
A group of academics stands in line, like a Communist bread queue, to collect a monthly salary amounting to Pounds 100-Pounds 200. The money must be collected in cash on a particular day of the month...
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Record straight on QMW merger
Your report on the Queen Mary and Westfield College Bill (THES, July 7) contains two mistakes. First, this is not a Private Member's Bill: it is a Private Bill which is something completely different...
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A marriage is arranged
Merger of the education and employment ministries is long overdue. . . but there are doubters. Mary Warnock warns of the dangers to 'genuine academic education' The marriage of education and training...
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Danger in measuring ability by IQ testing
Should James Tooley (THES, July 7) ever have the misfortune to be under the surgeon's knife, I hope that he will be able to take comfort in the fact that the surgeon's IQ was high at the age of ten...
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Ruling elite shares an LSE pedigree
Sometimes one wonders about the quality of our leading historians. Correlli Barnett (THES, July 7) refers to a British ruling elite which was "Overwhelmingly . . . the product of an academic humanist...
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Success despite dyslexia
As someone who graduated in 1983 and has recently found himself back at the edge of academia, I have to say that I am shocked at the way dyslexia is now approached. Gavin Fairbairn's question about...
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Success despite dyslexia
A recent article (THES, June 30) regarding an almost identified, particular student with mild dyslexia has caused me to worry. The article seemed badly argued and misinformed: it may have been...
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A marriage is arranged
Merger of the education and employment is long overdue, says matchmaker Geoffrey Holland ... but there are doubters It was not a spur of the moment decision to bring together the former Department...
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Student role in tutoring
Co-ordinating Student Tutoring Schemes need not cost the earth (THES, May 5). At Aston University, the scheme is expanding rapidly thanks to an innovative approach to recruiting volunteers. The...
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Macaulay gains on Gibbon
I rejoice that Jose Harris (THES, June 30) should plug Gibbon's claim to contemporary relevance so energetically, but her reflex Oxonian sideswipes at Macaulay are to be regretted. Does not her use...
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Danger in measuring ability by IQ testing
Here we go again . . . Every so often somebody resuscitates IQ tests (James Tooley, THES, July 7). I do not think that the anti-IQ lobby believes that the discipline is in disrepute due to the...