Students set their pace on funding policy
The inaccuracies and distortion of fact in "Follow my Labour" must be corrected. The NUS debate over education funding will be open and controversial. It is however, disappointing that your...
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What is quantum mechanics?
Belying its reputation for arcane irrelevance, quantum mechanics addresses problems of great importance for practical human activity. It explains, for example, the rigidity of chairs and tables...
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A city of lost hopes
Amela Sadagic on the war in her beloved Sarajevo. The day I left Sarajevo in April 1992 I thought I would have the kind of weekend I always had: a short visit to my parents' home 70km away in the...
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Conjurers of conjecture
Peter Holland condemns the mystification of science by the popularisers. Physicists are claiming quantum mechanics is incomprehensible and science can chart a path to God. But quantum physics does...
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Liberal with the ink
Colin Matthew edited one prime minister's papers that were donated to the nation. William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898) was four times chancellor of the exchequer and four times prime minister. He was...
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Hot air and global warming
Ragnar Lofstedt asks if grand environmental UN conclaves really achieve anything. Global warming is in the news again. Last month signatories to the United Nations convention on climate change came...
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Creative computing
Margaret Boden believes that computers can teach us a lot about human creativity. Aisling Irwin went to meet her. The story of Henry Ant, composed by a computer program called Tale-Spin, is...
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Hot on Chile, cool on Rio
Huw Richards talks to Victor Bulmer-Thomas, the organiser of this week's ILAS conference on the Latin American economy. Rarely has that hackneyed formulation "First the good news, then the bad" been...
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Discoursing with intent
Sociology, its critics claim, is wedded to jargon and unloved by the society it purports to understand. But Michle Barrett argues that the discipline still has much to say. The link between academic...
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Singing tune of Return to Fender
I attended the Association of University Administrators' Conference in Bristol last month. The prospect of so many university administrators all together would be daunting to the most resilient vice...
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More choice for Poles
The political changes in eastern Europe that began in 1989, and the disappearance of the Iron Curtain, offered chances for universities in the region to establish closer relations with academic...
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Perfection and the opinion poll
Huw Richards's otherwise reasonable write-up of the French election (THES, May 5) contains the statement: "after getting their (opinion poll) findings as spectacularly wrong as their British...
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Build on expertise of bodies
In the quality assurance debate I am always surprised to see little or no reference to the work of professional bodies in course validation. The Royal Institute of British Architects has been working...
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Unlucky break
As an unlucky applicant, I wonder why out of 62 awards for the 1995/96 British Academy Research Leave Scheme in the Humanities, only three were awarded to applicants from new universities. Jean-...
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Exchange non-starters
Rakesh Bhanot (THES, April 21) suggests that if European universities move to a secular calendar, it would be easier to spend a semester abroad. A Netherlands Organisation for International Co-...