Wendy McMurdo, a lecturer in Dundee University
(Photograph) - Wendy McMurdo, a lecturer in Dundee University's school of fine art, has won an award from the Leverhulme Trust for a two year project which combines traditional photographic...
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No university can shirk from confronting Aids
South Africa's Aids epidemic must be confronted with surgical rather than kid gloves, argues Brenda Gourley Few vice-chancellors will have given a condom, surgical gloves, and an Aids awareness badge...
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What we need: hard facts and a foods watchdog
After a week of claims and accusations about the evils of genetically modified food, what have we learnt about its safety, and about dealing with the growing rate at which new foods are promising to...
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A hard-nosed publisher writes...
Many thanks for your hilarious piece by Valentine Cunningham describing author/publisher relationships ("Mammon's imprint", THES, February 12). I am delighted to see The THES is filling the gap - so...
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Call estates' bluff
Surely it is about time somebody called the literary estates' bluff ("Poetic licence denied", THES, February 12)? Provided that what is quoted is less than a "substantial part" of each individual...
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Polished off
(Photograph) - Emlyn Budds, an applied art and design student at Loughborough University, puts the finishing touches on his new sculpture, Truth, Labour and Knowledge. Photograph: Steve Hill
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Unfair criticism
I was stunned and deeply disappointed that the Association of Colleges should criticise the role of the National Union of Students in the representation of FE students and their unions ("Colleges...
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It's a wonderful life
Unlike those in your article ("A few that got away", THES, February 5), I travelled in the other direction, returning to higher education as a lecturer in 1993 after 15 years in industry. Except for...
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Underperforming
In the article on the proposed new "performance" indicators (THES, February 12) a table compared the progression of students through an imaginary "University X" with average figures for similar...
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Meaning of success
The research into the careers and lives of Girton graduates suggests Cambridge failed to teach its alumni, in John Lennon's words, the "meaning of success" ("These women had so many breaks...", THES...
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Churlish Cambridge
It really is churlish of Cambridge University to insist on Gill Evans paying the Pounds 15,000 costs of the court case it could so easily have avoided and then even thinking of sending the bailiffs...
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Unrelated facts
In your reporting of the sale of the Turner collection, you have twice published the name of Simon Finch, described as a book dealer. Because of the coincidence of this name with my own I would like...
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Measuring up
Ideological objections to IQ testing are not a result of lack of thinking, as Stevan Harnad suggests ("Why I", THES, February 12). Quite the opposite. To reach his recommendation of "streamed"...
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Risky business
I was amused to read that entrepreneurs in the UK are "too easily satisfied" ("DTI knocks UK entrepreneurs for their 'poverty of ambition'", THES, February 5). Philip Treleaven writes from the...
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Locked in the ivory tower
Increased pressure to perform within universities is forcing academics to disengage from the public arena, argues Sheila Rowbotham I entered academia late in life to discover my colleagues struggling...