The rodent report
Peter Breeze argues that extra money raised from charge must stay in higher education. The report of the Commission on Social Justice published last week recognises that if higher education provision...
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A question of tolerance and diversity
The vision existing in church colleges as expressed by Gordon McGregor (THES, October 14) remains unaffected by the poor arguments ranged against him in your columns (David Clines, October 21;...
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Labs used as `private offices'
Accusations that professors are using university laboratories as "private offices" and are involved in the unauthorised use of European Union resources as well as extensive tax evasion are assuming...
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Blow away oligarchies
John Rear's defence of managerial sensitivity to academic issues is encouraging. As he says, "good management does not exclude collegiality"; it may encourage it, as responsibility for courses in...
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Savoir faire
(Photograph) - Savoir faire: Edith Cresson, the former French socialist prime minister, is the new European commissioner for education, training and research. Mrs Cresson takes over responsibility...
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Blow away oligarchies
Two weeks ago (THES October 21), we had John Rear (approved by your leader) attacking critics of the new university managements; last week we had Christina Townsend of BTEC attacking, in a Maggie...
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Lessons from a past perdu
From Kam Patel's interview with John Hopfield (THES, October 21) we learn that his 1982 paper on associative memory "led to an 'explosion' of research in neural computing". Hopfield himself...
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Idiomatic error
Pamela King and Angela Barrs (THES, October 14) represent me as a stone-throwing, glass-house dweller because I confused an idiomatic error with a grammatical one in my article (THES, September 30)....
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A question of tolerance and diversity
Professor Clines is right on two counts out of three which is better than I do most weeks. 1. There is certainly no gainsaying the high quality of the church colleges. 2. Some of them may need to...
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Secret of the swastika lies in Harrow
It surprises me that to this day Europeans have not been able to trace the swastika (THES October 21) to its rightful origins as an Indian symbol for advancing human well-being and spiritual...
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Count me out
You listed me as a candidate for the post of chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Coouncil for England (THES, October 21). I clearly told the headhunter who appproached me that I did not...
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Kitchen sink drama
I wrote a few weeks ago criticising Laurie Taylor's disregard for those places of higher education which were once polytechnics. I have read more recent columns with real pleasure, but note that the...
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A little help to learn Russian in Russia
I agree with Pieta Monks' s analysis (THES, October 21) that a climate of fear and rising costs in Russia, coupled with grant-starved students in Britain, has sadly led to a decline in numbers of...
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Lessons in citizenship
In the shadows of the German occupation, Marc Bloch (1886-1944), the greatest of medievalists and co-founder of the Annales school of history, posed the essential question for democratic...
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There but for the grace of God
In my last piece (THES, September 23) I suggested an end to the lottery of current early retirement practices in favour of an opportunity for all to retire at 55. Since then the nasty stuff has hit...