Driven mad 2
In my daily newspaper: dramatic new evidence showing that our planet is becoming overheated because of global warming. And in The Times Higher : dramatic new evidence showing that academics have...
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Driven mad 3
The articles on commuting to work and the problems of parking charges overlap with a survey we are conducting of commuters during February. We would like to find out the secrets to a stress-free...
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Oxford's own Edward?
In "Rebels in push for vote on Oxford v-c" (February 3), Peter Oppenheimer says: "Many of us believe that (John) Hood thinks of the new governance structure as a lever by which he can increase his...
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Peaceful free speech
Irshad Manji's "Islam's no joking matter - and that's the problem" (February 10) misrepresents tolerant Islam. Islam, Judaism and Christianity co-existed peacefully for generations. Islam calls on...
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Not complacent 1
Once again The Times Higher appears to be objecting to the world-beating performance of UK universities in attracting international students ("Complacent staff could lose foreign enrolments",...
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Not complacent 2
I was quoted in the article on foreign students in such a way as to make me apparently dismissive of points raised in the rest of the article. My remark on training was a response to a suggestion...
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Resign or be a traitor
Now we learn that some chairs of sub-panels for the research assessment exercise don't like the new ground rules for early-career researchers ("Rules hurt new blood, say liberal arts staff", February...
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Autonomous refusal
The Quality Assurance Agency "expects the University (of London) to produce an action plan" ("QAA findings on London 'perverse'", February 3). What will happen if in exercising its academic autonomy...
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Oases with a loud tick, tick ringing through the air
Half of the world's most densely populated cities are located in areas vulnerable to earth-quakes - and there is a very good reason why. James Jackson explains It has already been a bad century for...
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The elusive past of je ne sais quoi
The rise to fame of a well- worn phrase illuminates writers' use of language, says Richard Scholar Modern linguists have long had, I suspect, a reflexive turn to their thinking. It may be that the...
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People's histories lost in the academy
Grassroots ethnic minority groupsare striving to tell the story of theircommunities, but the politics of heritage is making the task difficult, says Sara Wajid Salman Rushdie, Wole Soyinka and Hanif...
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No more sink or swim as London discovers its eastern promise
A swimming certificate was once the goal for some East End pupils. Not any more, say Kate Gavron and Geoff Dench In Tower Hamlets, Bangladeshi pupils, the largest ethnic group in the borough,...
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Powerful change for the better
A chemist has developed catalysts that could power every PC, convert coal to petroleum and clean up greenhouse gases. Geoff Watts reports I am about to be impressed. Oxford University research...
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UK considers allowing women to donate eggs for cloning research only
Brussels, 15 Feb 2006 The UK's fertility watchdog is considering a change to its rules that would allow British women to donate their eggs solely for the purposes of therapeutic cloning research....
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Simple theory says Newton is wrong, Einstein can be improved and dark matter does not exist
Brussels, 15 Feb 2006 While recent studies have managed to throw light on dark matter, a new theory postulates that dark matter does not exist at all, and that while Newton's theories do not work for...