Many of our readers will have decided views on Tony Blair, and those who do not could be forgiven for not wishing to have another look at his legacy after the surfeit of retrospectives over the past...
"A new body, the UK Research Integrity Office, will accept evidence of research malpractice" - The Times Higher, May 11. Dear Research Integrity Office I'd like to complain about my former colleague...
"See America." When I got a job in Massachusetts I thought I would be able to take the ad's advice. But it was a year before I got very far out of Boston. At last, when I began a 30-day, 20-lecture...
With most universities having just published their gender equality schemes, evidence to suggest that female staff are paid less than males was bound to be headline news ("Pay bias persists as change...
The survey of the so-called "gender pay gap" is either dishonest or incompetent, as it fails to control for any of the relevant confounding variables. Carefully controlled studies typically show that...
The gender income differences could be due as much to a failure to recruit junior male academics as to female academics not achieving pay parity. In certain disciplines so few men are being recruited...
Robert Lockie is quite mistaken about the University and College Union and Unite Against Fascism. UCU would agree that the British National Party is a "repulsive fascist group" (Letters, May 11). We...
Robert Lockie rails against the Socialist Workers Party in the University and College Union. He should ask himself why those who know us vote for us. In my case, I got the second-highest vote in the...
I agree in part with Steve Reicher's criticisms of Philip Zimbardo's famous experiment ("The devil inside us all", Features, May 11). However, his legitimate concern that acceptance of social...
For a feminist, it is serendipitous when an abject sexist proves himself an ignoramus as well. The recent quote by Sir Patrick Moore attributing the demise of tasteful television to the increase in...
The anonymous academic who bemoaned the bureaucracy that is "killing" his/her career (Opinion, May 11) is just the latest voice in the growing cacophony of challenge to the assessment- and...
Laurie Taylor's idea of a European Journal of Negative Research Findings (Laurie Taylor, May 11) is not original. An article by David Lehrer et al. in European Political Science proposed a journal to...
Your discussion of the similarities between the publications of Ben Wilson and Vic Gatrell ("Author sorry for uncredited debt", May 11) implies that Wilson has breached Gatrell's "intellectual...
Building a national identity on history can be dangerous, warns Stefan Berger, who leads a European project studying the subject. Below, his colleagues Uffe /stergard and Attila Pok examine...
Historian and philosopher Theodore Zeldin suggests a few new ways to get people talking This week, ministers from across Europe are meeting to discuss progress on attempts to create a common European...