Offensive race questions
I recently applied for an academic post at one of the United Kingdom's new universities (ie a former polytechnic) and I was sent an application form to complete. One of the sections asked for details...
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Odd friends
I was surprised to see that Birkbeck College is advertising for a "Nestle Lectureship in the Politics of Development" (THES, October 6). Presumably this will involve extensive research into the...
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An appeal to learned friends
Following the recent Consumer Association survey suggesting that large numbers of practising solicitors are offering poor advice, one would have thought Martin Mears and the Law Society (THES,...
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Brutalising experiments
In his article, "The age of reasoning" (THES, September 29), Kenneth Boyd envisages a scenario whereby an individual is temporarily removed from this world and must decide whether the use of animals...
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Brutalising experiments
An argument against vivisection much overlooked even in the literature of the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection that I have received is the effect on the experimenter of conducting...
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Gold service for payers
It seems to be an assumption underlying the cross-party consensus on higher education funding that students with differential purchasing power will allocate themselves by time-honoured invisible hand...
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Tarnished reputation
C. B. Goodhart's evident desire to rescue Cyril Burt's reputation (THES, Letters, September 22) may be commendable. But he should not do so by perpetuating the myth that the attack on Burt was led...
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Time to care about those in care
Panic levels have been soaring with the capture of another year's worth of undergraduates. Tutors have outdone each other in displays to attract unqualified adult learners, administrators have chased...
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Information key to entry
We know which universities are best from asking our teachers," a sixth-former at Guiseley School in Leeds told a THES reporter. But how do their teachers know? In a mass higher education system...
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The brief encounter
Style matters in politics. Anyone who doubts this need only contemplate the respective political trajectories of the last two education secretaries. John Patten, widely regarded as the most...
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Action threat over 15%
Australia's university staff have demanded an immediate 15 per cent rise in their salaries and warned they will take industrial action if the government does not agree. In return they will support an...
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Intakes increased in ministry shake-up
Malaysia's education ministry is being restructured this month. It will have six departments designed to focus on government priorities following a directive by prime minister Datuk Seri Mahathir...
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Exams stamp out corruption
Thousands of Chinese graduates have been taking the new national civil service recruitment examinations. Up until now government departments were free to follow their own recruitment procedures and...
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A case of crime and punishment
The death penalty is on trial in Rostov on Don and novelist Feodor Dostoevsky, who once faced a firing squad, is in the witness box. The mock trial, complete with black-robed presiding judge,...
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Library director brought to book
Valerii Leonov, the director of the library of the Russian Academy of Science in St Petersburg, faces criminal charges for misappropriation of books under his care. According to the St Petersburg...