Mein infamy
Max Clifford (THES, June 13) actually said that Adolf Hitler was the most infamous person not the most famous! Mark Griffiths Nottingham Trent University Adam Joinson University of Glamorgan
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Static skill
I have seen Kathy Chater's explanation of "transferable skills" (THES, June 13). Could she please also explain what an untransferable skill is? Alan Slomson School of mathematics University of Leeds
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OU taps in to windfall
The article "Universities slow to tell students of tax windfall" (THES, June 6) failed to mention that the Open University has been offering vocational training relief on a number of its courses...
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A challenge to the Hera antagonists
Temperate criticism is not usually the hallmark of Association of University Teachers and Natfhe, the college lecturers' union. When Jill Jones and Alan Carr (THES letters, June 13) argue that "...
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The truth is out there
I was slightly surprised to read that Sandy Wolfson's research suggested that many Trekkies show addict-like symptoms, as according to the summary of her research which she showed me last year (and...
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Operational research
At a time when the qualitative standing and role of higher education are under close scrutiny, it is perhaps surprising and certainly unfortunate that a senior commentator (professor and dean of...
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Rorty the reactionary
I was delighted to read Sean Sayers's article on Richard Rorty (THES, June 6). On the one hand, I am the first to support academic freedom, on the other I am also the first to argue that that freedom...
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Don's Diary
Wednesday Anglia Television records news item about the court case I am seeking to bring against the university with respect to its promotion procedures. There are a lot of promotion candidates in...
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Battle over, anxiety takes hold
From Alan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind, Dinesh D'Souza's Illiberal Education, Roger Kimball's Tenured Radicals, Martin Anderson's Impostors in the Temple, to Lynne Cheney's Telling the...
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Principals, means and endings
In the past few weeks I have been working with John and Miriam Carver, the American gurus of governance in non-profit organisations. Their British audiences are greatly impressed by the simple but...
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Blood bank
(Photograph) - Biologist Angela Priestman is giving blood-sucking African mosquitoes a taste of their own medicine by sucking them from the walls of rural African houses after they have feasted. Dr...
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On the up
(Photograph) - On the up: The University of Derby, soon to open a Pounds 7-million learning centre, is likely to be allocated more money and fewer students under the Higher Education Funding Council...
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Cornwall College and South Devon College may merge
* Cornwall College and South Devon College could merge, it was announced this week. Talks have begun on plans that could lead to a new "university centre" in Cornwall, college heads said.
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Replicant
Spotted in Heriot-Watt University's ever-informative Internet Resources (www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/irn/irn.html): the peer-reviewed, online Journal of Memetics has been launched at www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/jom-...
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Excellent move
Peter Gibbins is leaving his chair at Exeter University to become director of the Oxford-based Virtual Centre of Excellence in Digital Broadcasting and Multimedia Technology (www. digital-vce.com), a...