The perpetual outsider
Anita Desai's latest novel is the first she has written out of India. Andrew Robinson went to meet her. Anita Desai is a novelist read in several languages besides English, a winner of literary...
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Apocalypse now?
Bruce Hoffman fears that the Tokyo gas attack could herald the start of a lethal era of religious terrorism. Last month's deadly nerve gas attack on the Tokyo underground marks an historical...
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FE dispute needs flexible friendship
I agree with David Bunch's rejection of "gratuitous personal attacks" (THES, March 24) but note he goes on to describe managers who do not share his view of the FE dispute as "faltering voices". As a...
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Levy the loaded
Last week the Labour leaders of the National Union of Students began to ditch the union's commitment to free education. At the annual conference they announced that there would be a "review" of NUS's...
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Fair pay should be on display
The survey of vice chancellors' pay (THES, March 24) was both informative and timely. As pay talks begin for higher education staff who are not academics it is difficult to absorb the shock-horror of...
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Grasp the nettle
Student leaders split last week over whether their members should contribute to tuition fees. I have just returned from my third and final National Union of Students conference. I feel exhausted, as...
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Etzioni: friend or foe of women's freedom?
If Gerard Kelly's article (THES, March 24) gives an accurate account of his views, Etzioni presents a deceptively gender-neutral vision of society under Communitarianism. He is reported as saying...
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Genial observer of lab animals
Kam Patel talks to the man who more than any other has made the scientist a subject of social study, Bruno Latour. A nervous Bruno Latour casts an eye around the Great Hall at Imperial College,...
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Three into two semester sums
So the Government has finally recognised that it is going to have to put more money into education. In his speech last week to "Middle England", the Prime Minister emphasised the need to provide...
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Don's Diary
SUNDAY. I'm sitting in the comfort of an Amtrak coach up the Hudson river to Albany, thinking: Why am I doing this? I've been in New York state since Friday evening and already my stomach aches from...
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China looks to the 21st century
The Chinese Academy of Sciences, the country's top scientific body, is to tweak its research strategy to focus more directly on economic development under its next Five Year Plan (1996-2000). The...
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Door of opportunity further ajar in Japan
A sharp drop in Japan's teenage population is making it easier for students to win places at the country's top universities and colleges. With fewer students sitting the entrance exams which...
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'Unpaid' lecturers claim exploitation
Postgraduate students in Australia are suffering widespread exploitation, with some working up to 20 hours a week as unpaid lecturers or demonstrators, unions representing academics and students have...
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Intellectual impasse
Now the clamour of the "battle with the CBI on intellectual rights" (THES, March 17 and letters March 24) has subsided, it is time for a cool look at the underlying issues. The unfortunate tone of...
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Churchill and the King
In Vernon Bogdanov's review of my book Eminent Churchillians (THES, March 3) he states that I "say nothing to illustrate that the King did not give Churchill his full support" after December 1940....