Education shake-up promised
Ministers have promised a fundamental shake-up of the educational research establishment after the publication of the second damning evaluation of the sector's scholarship in a month. Public money is...
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Grovelling and servitude on the PhD road
Postgraduate study costs more than mere money and time. As Amanda Callaghan explains, the price exacted can also include 20 hours a week as a restaurant lackey. IN THE depths of last winter I had a...
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Welfare has a future yet
Howard Glennerster's article ("Priorities for welfare", THES, August 7) raises issues that go to the heart of current debates. He points out that although real incomes and consumption standards, at...
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Animals and kids
The campaign of the organisation Seriously Ill for Medical Research (THES, August 14), which seeks pledges from anti-vivisectionists that they will not use treatments developed through animal...
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Animals and kids
A vague new group of pro-vivisectionists wants animal rights individuals to refuse medical treatment developed using research on animals. What a cheap and sorry political tactic this is. All of us...
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Animals and kids
Too often, animal rights groups make headlines with their protests. I only wish that there were as many protesters for human rights. How can we put the rights of animals before those of humans? Why...
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Overlooked in Scotland
WE read with amused concern your article "UMIST joins NUS quitters" (THES, August 21). Not only did it demonstrate a total inability to understand why UMIST has taken the sensible decision to...
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Please stop rankings
I am dismayed that the Association of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences has nothing better to do with its time than to initiate yet another competitive ranking exercise (THES, August 21). It...
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Clever investments
I am not quite clear if Andrew Oswald (THES, August 21) is supporting my conclusion or not. I was not reflecting on the UK's "past glories", whatever they may be, but drawing on the evidence provided...
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Check out library's romance
From scholarly journals to glossy magazines, everyone is talking about what social historian Gertrude Himmelfarb calls the "Revolution in the Library" (American Scholar, spring 1997) - one revolution...
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Big Brother FEFC? Please don't do it
I have a friend who had an enemy. The enemy was about to marry a woman whom my friend admired. He launched a campaign including adverts in The Times under the slogan "Don't Do It, Freda!" This story...
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Don's Diary
Thursday: Called by Reuters. "Had I a view on George Soros's letter in the Financial Times calling for a currency board and devaluation?'' The Russians have spent the past three years more or less...
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Honorary degrees
University of WarwickDLitt: Simon Barrington-Ward, former bishop of Coventry and member of House of Lords, prelate of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George (1989); Penelope Lively...
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Brits take maths Fields ahead
Two young British academics have won the equivalent of the Nobel prize in mathematics. Richard Borcherds and Tim Gowers, both of whom are at the University of Cambridge, were awarded the Fields medal...
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Hexagen
Hexagen, a biotechnology company that grew out of the University of Cambridge two years ago, has been taken over by Incyte Pharmaceuticals of the United States for Pounds 23.5 million.