Division over a rabbi's memory
GEOFFREY Alderman's admir-ably succinct history of British Jewry's fissiparous tendency (É«ºÐÖ±²¥S, February 14) sadly neither sheds light on the issues nor justifies his own stand and the Paisleyite...
GEOFFREY Alderman's admir-ably succinct history of British Jewry's fissiparous tendency (É«ºÐÖ±²¥S, February 14) sadly neither sheds light on the issues nor justifies his own stand and the Paisleyite...
PROFESSOR Alderman is right that the chief rabbi is not the leader of Anglo-Jewry. Rather he is simply the head of the United Synagogue, the largest branch of orthodox Jewry in Great Britain. As such...
É«ºÐÖ±²¥ UNIVERSITIES and Colleges Employers' Forum has become irrelevant to academic salary determination. Steve Rouse, chief executive, says that the UCEA board "does not have a position on a pay review...
TONY BINNS cites just one of the anomalies in the titles and pay of academics in different types of institution (É«ºÐÖ±²¥S, February 14). The top points of the main and promoted scales in the new...
MARGARET O'BRIEN (É«ºÐÖ±²¥S, February 14) says that "it might have been wiser" to present her findings about the sociology of Barking and Dagenham to an academic audience before contacting the Panorama...
TONY TYSOME reports the view of Geoffrey Alderman that a new standards agency "is bound to eventually become a kind of super Council for National Academic Awards" (É«ºÐÖ±²¥S, February 14). Having worked...
I ACCEPT Derek Freeman's claim (É«ºÐÖ±²¥S, February 7) that he believes in "a synthesis I of both the genetic and exogenetic" in the determination of human behaviour. Everyone, sociobiologists and...
É«ºÐÖ±²¥ MEASURED professional tone adopted by the writers of Personal View (É«ºÐÖ±²¥S, February 7) was welcome, as was the overwhelming endorsement which their research provides for the partnership model of...
IN 1991 a historic meeting in Paris, convened by the Association of Donors to African Education, brought together all the ministers of education in Africa. Only five were women and they were...
Tuesday Kyushu, Southern Japan. The earthquake hits at 7.30am. Five point eight on the Richter scale with the epicentre in a nearby town. My hotel room jerks and sways violently like an Inter-City...
YOU CAN tell how serious a government is about staying in office by the pace of its pre-election activities. If they are frenetic, ill conceived, subject to little or no consultation and, generally,...
MAYBE if J. D. Jacobs and Douglas Trainer looked behind their own rhetoric when challenging my commitment to free speech they would find that it is not something that has been fought for by...
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