Friends in the Northeast
PUBLICATION last week of the "Declaration for the North" was a unique event in modern English regional politics. It called on the government to bring forward plans for the creation of an elected...
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Chasing the grant dragon
Are academics going GAGA (suffering from grant application gambling addiction) in their quest to escape drudgery, asks William J. Keenan "Eleven 'goes' since July. Three hits - one bonanza and two...
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Health of future doctors depends on reforms
Medical education must evolve and changes being planned and implemented are no cause for despondency, says Stephen Tomlinson RECENT articles in The Times Higher Education Supplement, particularly the...
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Medical message
Liz Frayn (THES, October 24) criticises both the new medical education courses which follow the General Medical Council's report Tomorrow's Doctors and the emphasis in some medical schools on...
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NUS day of demos
Your coverage of the National Union of Students National Day of Demonstrations on November 1 was pitifully small and completely unbalanced. To focus a picture caption on the minority views of a small...
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NUS day of demos
Following publication of the Dearing report and the government's response and proposals from it, you may have been led to believe that the NUS has done nothing but criticise the report in its...
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Come clean on school backgrounds
ANNE Campbell criticises Cambridge for an admissions system which gives "half the undergraduate places available each year to the 9 per cent of students" who have been to independent schools (THES,...
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Come clean on school backgrounds
Those who advocate concentrating research in fewer institutions and fewer departments should ask themselves whether they really wish an increasing proportion of the talented youth of this country to...
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Come clean on school backgrounds
At a time when the extensive wealth of the Oxbridge Colleges is being revealed, Sir Robert May's views on research funding (THES, November 14) are as inappropriate as they are misguided. If adopted...
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Why Greats are good
Matthew Freeman (THES, November 7) is absolutely right that higher priority needs to be given to funding scientific research. But he has not grasped the full range of reasons why so many high offices...
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Review welcome
You reported the Institute of Education as being among "high cost" institutions marked out for special scrutiny by the Higher Education Funding Council for England specialist institution panel (THES...
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Saussure, so far
Contrary to Christopher Stanley's accusation (THES, November 14) my critique of Lacan does not mean that I oppose all radical thinking, that I support the "banal violence of managerialism" or that I...
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Don's Diary
Monday Breakfast at 9.30am of cornflakes and white toast which would have been rejected as unhealthy six week ago. Research has found that fibre is essential in the diet; other research, however, has...
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Lifelong yearning for recognition
The regular glossy magazine from my alma mater slithered through the letter-box yesterday. Success stories abound and there is always a feature on distinguished alumni not only from the world of...
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Giving is getting very taxing
Just as students, parents and institutions received over $40 billion in tax aid, American colleges and universities are again facing major challenges as they confront significant demands to...