Slip-up on Freud
David Pilgrim criticises Paul McHugh for failing to grasp the facts concerning Freud's "original claim about the high prevalence of incest survivors on his couch" in his book Try to Remember:...
David Pilgrim criticises Paul McHugh for failing to grasp the facts concerning Freud's "original claim about the high prevalence of incest survivors on his couch" in his book Try to Remember:...
On page 15 of the edition of 8 January, you apologise for the mathematical errors in the previous week's report on the RAE results (News in brief). Immediately above this, you report that "more than...
My late father was a traditional plant pathologist, so I empathise very much indeed with Joan Kelley (Letters, 8 January) and her plea for the training of a new generation of professional plant...
Jan Smit at the Centre for Strategy and Evaluation Services appears to demean and devalue the degree of PhD by asking: "Something that I do not understand, and that no one has been able to confirm or...
Much as I'd like it to be true that philosophy is becoming much more popular with employers ("More things in heaven and earth, Horatio", 1 January), the main evidence is based on a sloppy reading of...
Hazel Smith brings her first-hand experience of co-ordinating disaster relief to her new post, writes Matthew Reisz
A campaign to raise £100 million from philanthropic sources by the end of 2012 has been launched by the University of Bristol. Eric Thomas, the vice-chancellor, said: "We are currently raising £5...
Plans to change term dates are causing consternation among students at the University of Exeter, according to its student newspaper. The university plans to shorten the Christmas break from a month...
The University and College Union is in talks with the University of Essex over the closure of the Institute for Social and Technical Research (ISTR). The postgraduate ISTR - which comprises the...
Ten academics have been appointed associate professors at the University of Bournemouth. Appointees are expected to progress to full professor status within five years. The university has also...
A conference to bring university and industry heads together to discuss how they can help boost Britain's flagging economy is to be held at Cranfield University. The two-day conference, to take place...
A renowned Chinese artist is taking up residency at the University of Essex Gallery. Sun Xun, an animation artist who produces films with political themes, will spend five weeks at the university...
One of the UK's largest studies of child and adolescent mental health will be led by the University of Leeds. Hundreds of young people deliberately hurt themselves, and the £4.5 million study will...
A survivor of a Nazi concentration camp will give this year's Holocaust Memorial Day Lecture at the University of Wolverhampton this week. Steven Frank, who was born in Amsterdam in 1935, was taken...
The Confucius Institute for Scotland, established in 2005 as a partnership between the Fudan University in Shanghai and the University of Edinburgh, has won a second Award of Excellence from Hanban,...