Answers in the affirmative
Lucy Hodges tackles Stanford provost and ex-presidential assistant Condoleezza Rice on power and political correctness and finds her unfazed by both. In the early 1990s Time magazine pinpointed a...
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Never-ending party
Zhores Medvedev looks at the problems facing Boris Yeltsin if he is to unite the ruling party before the crucial Duma elections in December. President Boris Yeltsin and Prime Minister Viktor...
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A life worth writing
Andrew Robinson argues the case for the 'service industry' of literary biography. Why does one want to know about a man's life?" asked Alfred Tennyson. "The less you know about a man's life the...
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Big shout for research
Research has traditionally existed as a part of our culture, with scientific breakthroughs occurring in a more or less haphazard way. Small, self-governing groups have been responsible for major...
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More than a tragic storm in a teacup
At the end of May, an intelligent Harvard student stabbed her room-mate 45 times before killing herself. She made international news. It was a perfect tragedy of high energies and ambitions...
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Don's Diary
FRIDAY. I have sat on the Memorial Bench in the Percy Thrower garden but nothing can compare with the cultural achievement of appearing on Blue Peter. I had hoped to demonstrate my dynamite tank made...
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Rise of the managerial cadre
Robert Welch argues that devolving administrative tasks to academics may be efficient but is damaging to the original purpose of universities. On the upper storey of the cloister of the Collegium...
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A measure of success
In the week the new science adviser is appointed, Mark Richmond considers the impact of the Office of Science and Technology. Many, including senior officials in the then Department of Education and...
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Apology call to Guildhall
Guildhall has yet to utter a word of regret on the victimisation by managers of a black senior law lecturer (THES, June 19). The shocking thing in this is that an academic institution is involved and...
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Latin lovers, unite
Nick Tate (THES, May 19) is right to point to the deplorable level of Latin literacy in our schools. Students at German universities who do not possess basic Latin skills, but who are studying core...
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Student loans fall-out
In "Opinion" (THES, June 2) you claim that it is the hard left celebrating after Derby. As an independent sabbatical officer not affiliated to a party, faction, or fan club I reject that claim....
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English aid to develop Cambodia
It is true that Cambodians see English, not French, as the key to unlock the door to jobs (THES, May 12), and when one looks at where the investors are coming from (the English-using countries of...
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Crushes or crushed
Jennie Bristow presented a picture of students deliberately and ritualistically setting out to enter into casual sexual relationships with their lecturers in universities and colleges. She questioned...
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Crushes or crushed
It is a sign of the times that it should be left to a student, Jennie Bristow (THES, June 2), to launch a welcome and effective attack on the patronising moves afoot to police personal relations...
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Irish baulk at expansion
University teachers in Ireland have accused the government of incoherence in its strategy to deal with growing numbers of full-time students. The Irish Federation of University Teachers is...