Policy studies have come of age
It is only a little more than ten years ago that British academics were lamenting the paucity of education policy studies in this country and contrasting this sorry state of affairs with the...
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Laissez faire flaw
Terence Kealey (THES, November 18) would prefer that scientific research should return to some sort of 19th-century paradise in which private funding was available in abundance and which seethed with...
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Stuff and non-sense
Igor Aleksander asks us to take seriously his argument concerning the problem of consciousness, by suspending "the deep contempt that many have for inanimate object" (THES, November 18). Although we...
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Universe errors
P W. Anderson's bodice-ripping review (THES, November 4) of the Science Masters series cosmology books requires correction. Anderson says that inflation is "simply a phase transition of the vacuum"....
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Keepers of the olive grove
John Rear leads with his chin when he writes about managerialism and academic freedom in higher education (THES, October 21). He had realised that at the Council for Academic Autonomy he was being...
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Double trouble ahead
We are all familiar with what is happening to student grants. We are also told by the Government that higher education is already achieving the enrolment targets it set itself for the end of the...
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Obliged to stay silent for the group
Your editorial of November 11 makes a welcome call for the defence of tolerance in universities: yet, as it suggests, this will not be an easy argument to sustain. On the one hand, defence of...
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The all-new hot desk shuffle
How many hours a week do you actually spend at your desk? Research, lecturing, meetings and collaboration with industry are rarely desk-based. A lecturer may spend relatively little time at the desk...
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Common cause at Islamabad
On Sunday Commonwealth education ministers assemble in Islamabad for their 12th conference since Oxford in 1959. The gathering is a reaffirmation of the Commonwealth's continuing value to members. It...
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Don's Diary
MONDAY. This week I face redundancy at the tender age of 37 after 15 years in a research department at a provincial university, leaving me feeling disillusioned with the university system and its...
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On the slippery road to Roma
I left Italy last month, after three weeks of Florentine sunshine, as the dark clouds were gathering over the Alps. On the Brenner pass electrical storms lit up the valleys. Hours later, parts of...
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A little inflation could go a long way
Though shifted from its historic springtime niche in what may have been Norman Lamont's one lasting achievement as Chancellor of the Exchequer, Budget Day remains one of the great rituals of British...
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Call for minister at Pakistan meeting
Britain should raise grants to the Commonwealth distance-learning organisation and increase the number of Commonwealth scholarships and fellowships, according to the Council for Education in the...
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Ismaili centre for west
The Aga Khan University is to open an institute dedicated to the study of Islamic civilisations in an attempt to counter prejudice in the face of the spread of fundamentalism. The institute, to be...
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East is a cultural Eden
Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet." Rudyard Kipling was thinking of Europe and Asia when he wrote these verses. I quote them not just in continued amazement at what...