Sticks and stones...
The tone and conclusions of the ill-tempered review of English Words (THES, March 15) surprised me. It is bizarre for your reviewer to dismiss my treatment of English word formation as "pedestrian"...
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Scholarly waves across the Mersey
For The THES to describe us (THES, March 29) as an "intellectual backwater" smacks of misplaced intellectual snobbery. Liverpool Hope, like other church colleges, makes a substantial contribution to...
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Lament for Northwest
As the MP for Lancashire West and secretary of the North West Group of Labour MPs in the House of Commons, I am dismayed to see yet another of our successful industries being undermined and under-...
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Engineers' delight
Your report on initial reactions to the Dearing 16-19 review (THES, March 29) concentrated on the proposal for earlier degree-level study, which encourages the system to respond to different learning...
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V-cs' hands on the knife
Responsibility for the crisis in higher education must fall as much on the vice chancellors as upon the Government - the crisis in funding is only an aspect of a wider malaise. John Bull's lugubrious...
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The rush to publish
Ned Thomas gives a university press view on the scramble to meet the research assessment deadline. On Thursday March 28, with one working day to go, the last two books we had promised would see the...
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Don's Diary
FRIDAY. Today, we reach the culmination of 15 months of preparation for a quality assessment visit. Colleagues spend all day checking and rechecking the information we have provided. At a...
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No mark for effort skews assessment
The definition of quality used in the higher education sector is dependent on values and ideologies that see education as a service which is done to or provided for students defined as consumers,...
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America's man of stark ontrasts
Renowned sociologist and political scientist Seymour Martin Lipset tells Huw Richards why he finds the US exceptional, Canada fascinating and Ronald Reagan shrewd. While E. M. Forster set a virtually...
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Red faces, white coats, blue funk
The first case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy was diagnosed a decade ago after the death of a Kent cow which had become edgy and unable to control its movements. The disease spread from 20 cases...
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Red faces, white coats, blue funk
The BSE saga has provided the unseemly picture of a government hiding behind the white coats of science. But, reports John Durant, the passing of responsibility from politicians to scientists only...
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Flick and press squeezes
The article by David Cesarani was confused and confusing - one's strong impression was that it was written merely to have his name publicly associated with this controversy. In line with Oxford...
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Endearing to all sides
Careful advance briefing and careful gathering of long-circulated ideas secured a smooth passage for Sir Ron Dearing's report on 16-19 qualifications published this week. It contains few surprises;...
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The bad language carriers
How we learn to speak is a mystery. Myrna Gopnik claims to have found a gene which transmits bad grammar. Over 100 ago Charles Darwin speculated that language was an "instinct". Evidence suggests...
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The bad language carriers
How we learn to speak is a mystery. Myrna Gopnik claims to have found a gene which transmits bad grammar. The language gene is the holy grail of linguistics. Find that, and you are up there with...