Authors: Cigdem Issever and Ken PeachEdition: First Publisher Oxford University PressPages: 130Price: £39.95 and £19.95ISBN 9780199549085 and 9092There is still too little emphasis on presentational...
My dislike of Piled Higher and Deeper predates its appearance in THE, and further exposure has done nothing to alter my opinion.The cartoon on 20 May, "How grad school is just like kindergarten",...
In "Braving the elements" (20 May), Barbara Oakley forcefully describes the Portuguese neurologist and diplomat Antonio Egas Moniz as "spearheading" the use of frontal lobotomy. However, his method...
We read that Francisco Ayala "refutes the idea that there is any contradiction between science and religion" (The Week in Higher Education, 13 May). I think you'll find that he denies, not refutes,...
I would like to respond to the letter from Richard Shearman of the Engineering Council ("Open to suggestions", 13 May).Readers may remember that Shearman took issue with my comments on the role of...
I am always dismayed when I see authorities dumbing down the academic profession. Your article "Oxford report: goodbye readers, hello merit pay" (13 May) covered Oxford's efforts to abolish the post...
Last week's article on Rosemary Deem's call for a new qualification for research administrators adds to an important debate ("Managers must be qualified to herd the academic cats", 20 May).Management...
The academy's silence following your publication of two articles on Peter Duesberg ("Unconventional thinkers or recklessly dangerous minds?" and "Without prejudice", 6 May) is disappointing but not...
While berating scholars for their abuse of statistics, your article "Not so good with numbers" (6 May) was illustrated with a photograph of a researcher jotting down his results and thinking: "I'll...
Your leader about forcing academics into open-plan offices concentrates on the problems such arrangements cause for the health and well-being of staff ("Mavericks won't be corralled", 13 May).I have...
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