Learn from Met record or get stuck on repeat
How well acquainted is Michael Shattock with London Metropolitan University? (“‘The best board I ever sat on’”, 30 May.) In drawing parallels between HBOS and the university, Shattock quotes Sir Alan...
Search
-
-
Outdated advice
It is no secret that many business schools, including my own, use the Association of Business Schools’ Academic Journal Quality Guide to determine scholarly performance. Indeed, the publication...
-
Cast neural net wider
Regarding “Neuron firing and hiring” (Opinion, 30 May). There is much to be learned from neuroscience, although the danger lies in extracting bits of information and extrapolating from them as if...
-
Great maths, not masters
I am writing in response to Brian Sewell’s “Every picture tells a history” (23 May). I am well qualified to do so as I am a 58-year-old professor of electronic engineering who has just completed a...
-
-
R.C. Richardson, Nigel Rodenhurst, David Revill, Paul Greatrix and John R. Grodzinski...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
-
Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air by Richard Holmes
Robert J. Mayhew lifts off with a true balloon enthusiast
-
The Invention of Craft by Glenn Adamson
Nithikul Nimkulrat discusses an ‘indispensable means of working’
-
Liberty and Security by Conor Gearty
Amanda Cahill-Ripley on a radical critique of counter-terrorism
-
China’s Growth: The Making of an Economic Superpower by Linda Yueh
Yongjin Zhang on the riddle at the heart of an Eastern paradox
-
Roman Palmyra: Identity, Community, and State Formation by Andrew M. Smith II
Judith Weingarten on an island emporium in the midst of a sea of sand
-
The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South by Vijay Prashad
Stefan Andreasson on an engaging but unbalanced view of a vital subject
-
Wealthy foundations: UK’s engineering heavyweights
The University of Sheffield has nudged the University of Cambridge into third place in a list of the UK institutions earning the most research income from engineering, Higher Education Statistics...
-
Howard Davies on French plans that could cost UK dear
Howard Davies and Maria Zhivitskaya say critics of a new law allowing foreign-language instruction are fighting lost Proustian battles
-
Gove, the enemy of promise
The education secretary’s attacks on the academy are a smokescreen for the damage caused by his radical policies, argues Martin McQuillan