Reckless or feckless?
I teach Mark Lilla's The Reckless Mind, the book that Paul Cartledge prefers to my own (The Intellectual) (Books, November 4). Students study it as part of a course called "The feckless mind"....
I teach Mark Lilla's The Reckless Mind, the book that Paul Cartledge prefers to my own (The Intellectual) (Books, November 4). Students study it as part of a course called "The feckless mind"....
I was disappointed to see our highly successful staff development festival reported so negatively in last week's Times Higher ("Union accuses v-c of mass bullying", November 4). A team of committed...
I was disturbed by last week's article that reported an accusation of bullying against the vice-chancellor of my univer-sity and cast our staff development festival in a poor light. My experience of...
Your article "Lecturers who failed to fill room fined £500" (November 4) focuses on unused teaching rooms at City University. I have been carrying out space utilisation surveys in higher and further...
I note with interest the efforts of City University to charge lecturers for rooms they book but fail to use. Given property prices in the area, surely the university should consider putting the rooms...
The changes proposed to Cambridge University's intellectual property policy are not a "wrecking amendment" ("Cambridge to ballot on IP reforms", October 28). They will return us to the policy we...
In his review of Tony Kushner's We Europeans (Books, November 4) Panikos Panayis describes the study as concentrating "on ethnic minorities in Britain in the 1930s and 1940s when Jews formed the...
I share Dennis Hayes's commitment to critique and robust intellectual debate ("The touchy-feely brigade: coming your way soon", November 4). How curious then that instead of a critical analysis of...
Dennis Hayes's fears for the impact of the touchy-feely brigade serves up a confused picture. While I wholly endorse the notions of academic freedom and intellectually robust criticism, I cannot...
While we applaud many of the sentiments expressed by Dennis Hayes, we cannot share the "anything goes" extremes of his stance. We should not forget that academic freedom can be used, and has been...

As David Attenborough launches his new series, Anna Fazackerley finds out why he is the academy's favourite broadcaster His hushed, mellifluous voice has become synonymous with natural history. He...
In the dead of night, a detachment of aphaenogaster ants embarks on a covert mission. Its target is a colony of harvester ants (pictured top) that has arrived in the aphaenogasters' corner of New...
A man on the moon - Nasa; Thatcherite free market economics - Institute of Economic Affairs; the atomic bomb - Manhattan Project; the genetic code of humanity - Human Genome Project; pet varnish -...
More than 60 years ago, a theory on speech was tested on orphans. The evidence that was gathered is now being studied by lawyers, not scientists. Stephen Phillips reports In January 1939, a 22-year-...