Gore Vidal
Six leading writers will speak on the subject of the Dissident Word in the fourth series of Amnesty Lectures which starts next week at the Sheldonian Theatre at Oxford. Whatever Gore Vidal has to say...
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Taslima Nasreen
Six leading writers will speak on the subject of the Dissident Word in the fourth series of Amnesty Lectures which starts next week at the Sheldonian Theatre at Oxford. I used to hear the chants of...
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Edmund White
Six leading writers will speak on the subject of the Dissident Word in the fourth series of Amnesty Lectures which starts next week at the Sheldonian Theatre at Oxford. About ten years ago Harpers...
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DIY assessment for beginners
John Stoddart, chairman of the Higher Education Quality Council, made an eloquent case in The THES (December 9, 1994) for a "supportive, collective self-regulatory system" of quality assurance for...
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A clean bill of health
Roger Ellis's contribution on physiotherapy and occupational therapy seemed to confuse two different issues. One is the "status of the professions allied to medicine", for which many remedial...
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Meeting recruitment targets
Peter Knight, who rose to fame as the enfant terrible for over-recruiting and lowering the unit of resource, now wants a standard unit of funding. Not surprisingly he gets support from Luton...
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Andre Brink
Six leading writers will speak on the subject of the Dissident Word in the fourth series of Amnesty Lectures which starts next week at the Sheldonian Theatre at Oxford. Although most of what I have...
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Mao and the Net
As I read "Scuppering the Great Helmsman" (THES, December 16 1994), I could not help but think that the author must be one of the few true believers in Mao left alive these days. But what John...
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. . . and learning
In your editorial "Graduate Grouses" (THES, January 13) you note that "the worlds of the executive and academic are still far apart". The lack of what industry is looking for in graduates is...
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. . . and learning
Joseph Evans (THES, November 11) has presented a good idea on the issues of the roles of universities concerning student accommodation. As casual sex and drug-related problems occur in many...
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A clean bill of health
Roger Ellis reveals some misconceptions about physiotherapy and the professions allied to medicine generally. He appears to consider the inclusion of disciplines such as anatomy, physiology and...
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A clean bill of health
The Council for Professions Supplementary to Medicine welcomes and supports the serious and extensive coverage given to its field (THES Synthesis, January 20). However a number of points need to be...
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Tip of the tongue
Queen's University, Belfast's "parody of esteem" principle is producing more, er, steam than light since Queen's appeased the Nationalist half of its intake by dropping the Queen from graduation...
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No-hopers
Third prize, awarded for open-mindedness, is for the entry: "The trustees will not be prejudiced by the jargon involved in the new welfare industry, such as 'caring', 'underprivileged' or 'deprived'."
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No-winners
Second prize - a pair of X-ray spectacles - is for the entry: "No applications are invited. Unsolicited applications will be destroyed unopened."