In the dock for art
I AM writing on behalf of the steering committee of the Standing Conference of Arts and Social Sciences, a body whose members are deans of faculties and representatives of subject associations in...
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Long live the viva
Ewan Gillon's assertion (THES, February 20) that the viva is purely a traditional torture for graduate students conveniently ignores some of the essential elements of the PhD. The very essence of a...
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Partners in progress
I WAS surprised by the negative tone of the article on the Further Education Funding Council's excellent report on collaborative provision (THES, March 6). The report shows that the quality of...
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Science friction
We enjoyed the article on Carl Djerassi ("Thrills, Spills and Pills" THES, March 6), but were intrigued by his distinction between "science-in-fiction", which he writes, and "science fiction", which...
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Scrutinise promotions
IT IS to be hoped that the decision by the visitor to reopen a grievance case at the University of York in relation to unsatisfactory promotion procedures will lead to a thorough review of this...
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What is knowledge?
Stephen Howe ("Blinded by Blackness", THES, February ) raises important questions about Afrocentrism that require fuller analysis to reappraise the nature of knowledge per se. However, the view he...
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Founding fathers' fever
Given that I am writing a young people's biography of Tom Paine, and our daughter has been accepted to Thomas Jefferson's University of Virginia, I may be overly attuned to American revolutionary...
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Don's Diary
Monday After three weeks on board the German research vessel, Polarstern, we arrive at Drescher Inlet, a 20-kilometre crack in the Riiser-Larsen ice shelf 400 kilometres from the British Antarctic...
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Mixed blessings in a working Budget
HOW will next week's Budget affect higher education? Will it be "stop" or will it be "go"? Our productivity levels would make any chancellor of the exchequer green with envy if it could be reflected...
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European schemes to model climates
Two European schemes to model climates, PROVOST and ELMASIFA, have achieved 70 per cent success in local forecasting.
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Boring life of sleepy American students
Thirty-six per cent of first-year United States students say they have been bored in university or college, according to a survey. And that's the good news. As many say they slept through it. The...
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Flower power
(Photograph) - A Bangladeshi girl places flowers at Dhaka's Shaheed Minar in memory of the four university students shot in 1952 for demanding official language status for Bangla in the former state...
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Promotions
Royal Holloway, University of London The title of reader has been conferred on J. Michael Wilson, atomic physics. University of Wales College of Medicine J. H. Lazarus, former senior lecturer and...
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Grants
University of Birmingham Charities Professor E. Maher, Pounds 58,905 from the Wellcome Trust (molecular pathology of Beckwith-Wiedemann); Professor S. Busby and Dr S. Minchin, Pounds 176,308 from the...
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Rocket range
(Photograph) - The Queen's Tower at Imperial College, London, one of the big winners in the 1998-99 allocations.