Sum mistake?
Margaret Brown asks if there is any truth in the perception that maths standards are declining. Mathematics rarely excites the media, yet The Guardian's recent front page headline stating that school...
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She who makes holy men fume
A standard bearer for equality or a self-publicist employing fatwa as career move? Simon Targett meets the exiled Bangladeshifeminist writer Taslima Nasreen. It was a hush-hush, mum's the word sort...
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No Incas in Hastings
Jared Diamond asks why Europeans came to dominate and colonise the world and not the peoples of Africa, Australia or America? Eurasians, especially peoples of Europe and eastern Asia, have spread...
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A prize for admittance
After 1989, the year we were quick enough to call the annus mirabilis of European history, the fall of communism produced a paradox: we all became Marxists, sharing the belief that it would suffice...
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Skewed selection needs rethink
The universities' admissions system is unfair and must be changed say Chris McManus and Peter Richards. Back in 1961 the Universities' Central Council on Admissions was a brilliant idea. Instead of...
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Helpful postscript
It seems that the copyright case reported by your Hong Kong correspondent, Susie Weldon, is not going to end with the published "confidential report" by the Committee on Personnel Matters. As much as...
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Defining best terms in teaching
It is not the timing of semesters that is wrong (Letters, THES February 17), it is their very existence. Those familiar with teaching and learning in higher education know that it is conducive to...
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Bare necessities in art and life
While I have no wish to extend the saga of Southampton University's Naughty Pictures beyond its natural life, there are two or three points made by Ms Ni Bhrolchain in last week's THES ("Why No Nudes...
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Codes and caveats for governing class
Barely two months old, this year is already proving to be quite a year for governors. The past few weeks have seen four significant publications - two from the National Audit Office on financial...
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Don's Diary
Sunday. The heavy snow ten days ago broke dozens of branches off the trees, especially the poplars and ashes, so most of the day gets spent on amateur tree surgery. The bonfire has lasted two days so...
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The serious business of yoga
Students at an international business school in Spain are to be guinea pigs for an academic's theory that yoga and meditation make for better business decisions. Ashok Ranchhod, a principal lecturer...
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Shoot-out at outlaw university
One dead, at least 20 seriously injured, several beaten and an unspecified number of arrests made up the initial casualty list from the opening of the academic year at the outlawed University of...
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Rome director gaoled
The administrative director of Rome's La Sapienza University, Savino Strippoli, was sentenced last week to 22 months in prison for corruption in assigning building and maintenance contracts. A member...
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Computerised exams on the button
Further to your article, "Results at the press of a button", by Olga Wojtas (THES, January ). I am writing to inform you that the University of Luton was, in fact, one of the first universities to...
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Universities as a focus for dissent
Scott Wilson's lively review of Alan Sinfield's Cultural Politics - Queer Reading, in last week's THES raises a fundamental question about the role of the university. Wilson questions Sinfield's...