Exercises in creativity and clarity 3
I was struck by the dissimilarity of the language and writing style of the side-by-side articles by Alex Danchev and David Eastwood on the research assessment exercise and the research excellence...
I was struck by the dissimilarity of the language and writing style of the side-by-side articles by Alex Danchev and David Eastwood on the research assessment exercise and the research excellence...
At Barts and the London Medical School, we have been able to put into practice a learning experience suggested by one of our students ("Students to be 'change agents'", November 30). Emma Lightbody,...
I read the article on the Higher Education Funding Council for England Leadership, Governance and Management Strategic Committee's report with much amusement ("Staff loyalty key to Hefce report",...
I disagree with Rowenna Davis ("Swapping women's rights for ladies' nights", December 7). Many years in fisheries research has taught me that acceptance of women results from participation, not from...
The handful of parochial views about China and the conclusions attributed to those quoted in the story "Expert warns ‘naive’ British", (December 7) are at odds with many colleagues working in science...
A father and son at the same university look at risk and crisis management. The Father: The keyboard of my new PC arrived with a label to the effect that prolonged use is likely to render me a...
Political cartoons of the late 18th century were obscenely vicious until tamed by 'respectability'. Vic Gatrell says political correctness could similarly neuter their modern equivalents. In 1963,...
Despite palaeontological evidence that human history is rooted in Africa, standard chronology starts it at about 6,000 years ago in Mesopotamia. It is time we rectified our Christian-induced myopia,...
One outcome of the neoliberal university has been to recast the student as a consumer of higher education, promoting a judgmental culture among undergraduates on all aspects of the student experience...
Custerology
Lenin, Stalin and Hitler
New Players, Different Game
This week's competition to identify a book from its opening sentence is from a vigorous attack on religion: "The boy lay prone in the grass, his chin resting on his hands." Entries, including postal...