Blow away oligarchies
John Rear's defence of managerial sensitivity to academic issues is encouraging. As he says, "good management does not exclude collegiality"; it may encourage it, as responsibility for courses in...
John Rear's defence of managerial sensitivity to academic issues is encouraging. As he says, "good management does not exclude collegiality"; it may encourage it, as responsibility for courses in...
(Photograph) - Savoir faire: Edith Cresson, the former French socialist prime minister, is the new European commissioner for education, training and research. Mrs Cresson takes over responsibility...
Two weeks ago (THES October 21), we had John Rear (approved by your leader) attacking critics of the new university managements; last week we had Christina Townsend of BTEC attacking, in a Maggie...
From Kam Patel's interview with John Hopfield (THES, October 21) we learn that his 1982 paper on associative memory "led to an 'explosion' of research in neural computing". Hopfield himself...
Pamela King and Angela Barrs (THES, October 14) represent me as a stone-throwing, glass-house dweller because I confused an idiomatic error with a grammatical one in my article (THES, September 30)....
Professor Clines is right on two counts out of three which is better than I do most weeks. 1. There is certainly no gainsaying the high quality of the church colleges. 2. Some of them may need to...
It surprises me that to this day Europeans have not been able to trace the swastika (THES October 21) to its rightful origins as an Indian symbol for advancing human well-being and spiritual...
You listed me as a candidate for the post of chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Coouncil for England (THES, October 21). I clearly told the headhunter who appproached me that I did not...
I wrote a few weeks ago criticising Laurie Taylor's disregard for those places of higher education which were once polytechnics. I have read more recent columns with real pleasure, but note that the...
I agree with Pieta Monks' s analysis (THES, October 21) that a climate of fear and rising costs in Russia, coupled with grant-starved students in Britain, has sadly led to a decline in numbers of...
In the shadows of the German occupation, Marc Bloch (1886-1944), the greatest of medievalists and co-founder of the Annales school of history, posed the essential question for democratic...
In my last piece (THES, September 23) I suggested an end to the lottery of current early retirement practices in favour of an opportunity for all to retire at 55. Since then the nasty stuff has hit...
MONDAY afternoon: Receive my first set of senior papers to grade. Randomly choose one to read. The title, "Orlando ain't no chick" reminds me that this is definitely, as they would say in these parts...
Four years is how long the human pair bond is designed to last, according to American anthropologist Helen Fisher. Lucy Hodges reports. Forget the seven-year itch. Most divorces occur after an...
Academic marriages are commonplace but universities can have problems accommodating both spouses. John Davies looks at how scholarly couples cope. What could be more natural than for academics to...