A pro-Israel boycott
Letter to Michael Duff, Abdus Salam chair of theoretical physics at Imperial College London, copied to The Times Higher I am writing to let you know that I will not be coming to the Abdus Salam...
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We are not in denial
There are no "climate-change deniers", and I challenge Bob Ward (Opinion, May 4) to name one. The many scientists, so blackballed, who spent decades studying - not denying - climate changes, simply...
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Address gender gap
A certain defensiveness seems to characterise your correspondents' letters on the gender pay gap (Letters, May 18). I note that Nottingham and Newcastle universities (for which four of your...
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The bigger picture
Your overview on the status of film studies ("Good or bad taste - it's in the can", May 11) was interesting, yet it failed to cover some important aspects of the bigger picture. The current...
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Top-up time bomb
Your editorial's rush to judgment on top-up fees may be premature (Leader, May 18). As Zhou Enlai said of other events: "Too soon to tell." We do not yet have a reliable time series to test trends in...
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Reject SWP hijack
It is rarely stated but widely known that bodies such as Unite Against Fascism and the Stop the War campaign are Socialist Workers Party front organisations. So it was refreshing that Robert Lockie (...
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Family sets the menu
Public advice on nutrition must consider the role of families, says Peter Jackson. Right, researchers give a taster of their work on different facets of the interaction between home and health. The...
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'A proper Dinner'
In researching the attitudes of 11 to 12-year-old rural children and their families, we have found that a potent symbol of domestic wellbeing remains "the proper dinner". Our data, drawn from ten...
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Changing advice
Women's magazines have long been preoccupied with food - and have taken for granted that it is women who usually provide it. With human nutritionist Margo Barker, I have been examining the food...
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Do dads cook, too?
Common consensus in academia and beyond is that it is mainly women who take responsibility for shopping, cooking and serving family meals. However, the research that supports this contention was...
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Eating for two
When I was pregnant, 34 years ago, I craved, and ate, blue cheese and chocolate. By the age of three months, my daughter happily consumed mashed banana, boiled eggs and honey. "See if she likes them...
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The myth of togetherness around the table
In recent debates, the Government and the media have depicted the family meal as a historic tradition central to society's cohesion and wellbeing. Its alleged decline has been linked to communication...
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Happy returns to the chosen few
With science at the heart of the country's development, India's research institutes are becoming world-class but its universities are falling behind. Geoff Watts reports. The Presidential Palace is a...
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