Armchair Nation: An Intimate History of Britain in Front of the TV, by Joe Moran
Gary Day enjoys the facts but would have appreciated some more analysis in a comprehensive review of all aspects of television
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The Muslim Brotherhood: Evolution of an Islamist Movement, by Carrie Rosefsky Wickham
Christina Hellmich applauds the clear analysis that reveals a complex array of internal divisions, power struggles and conflicting ideological trends in the Brotherhood
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STEM growth, SWAN song
The Campaign for Science and Engineering warmly welcomes the announcement made by David Willetts, the universities and science minister, during his speech at the Conservative Party conference of...
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Spanners in the works
I have a first from the University of Cambridge and a PhD in engineering from Imperial College London. I am a chartered engineer with 13 years’ industrial experience. I have published widely in peer-...
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Failure by analogy
The attempts by Chibuihem Stanley Amalaha, a postgraduate chemical engineering student at the University of Lagos, to use science to prove that homosexuality is unnatural and wrong are disturbing (...
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Fascinating rhythm
It is great news that UK-Brazil collaboration is a rapidly growing “special relationship” (News, 3 October). THE’s coverage reported on factors such as funding and citations, but there is another...
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Gut instinct winded
Nigel Probert (Letters, 3 October) opposes student feedback on the grounds that the teacher’s intuition is “a natural process more immediate and more valuable than formal feedback”. Sir Karl Popper...
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Industry's vital fuel for academic engine
In response to Cary Nelson’s article “Beware: integrity at risk” (19 September): it is academia’s role to carry out impartial and independent research and analysis that provides governments, business...
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Scrap personal statements, thinktank argues
Move would level playing field for state school applicants
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Headhunter foresees more captains from industry
Former Tory minister Baroness Bottomley questions need for academic leadership
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Doing Research That Matters: Shaping the Future of Management, by Marco Busi
Focusing on top scholars’ practices gives an incomplete picture, says Huw Morris
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Churchill’s Bomb: A Hidden History of Science, War and Politics, by Graham Farmelo
A. W. Purdue on the leader who saw the nuclear future but let it slip
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‘Lecturer made me an outcast’ - shock claim
Source: GettyNo exit: for some it’s always angst o’clockIn the wake of allegations from former students that Ralph Miliband’s lectures on politics at the London School of Economics may have amounted...
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Fellow traveller
In your obituary of the distinguished American political scientist Marshall Berman (26 September), it is stated that he wrote an introduction to the latest Penguin edition of Marx’s Communist...