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Michael Hyland suggests that some professors appointed today would not previously have gained the hallowed title. I was awarded my first chair in 1987 after much hard work and the application of...
Michael Hyland suggests that some professors appointed today would not previously have gained the hallowed title. I was awarded my first chair in 1987 after much hard work and the application of...
Your editorial comments on the ever-growing number of professors. In fact, there are so many that one confidently expects to read before long a News of the World headline along the lines of "Bogus...
Richard Hoggart is outraged that a young woman with a degree in chemistry works in a factory that makes cheap perfumes (Opinion, October 29). I am no chemist, but I am quite prepared to believe that...
In his otherwise admirable call for science students to be taught about the larger moral and social contexts of their work, Richard Hoggart mistakenly assumes the biggest obstacle comes from...
Despite the problems it has brought for Gary Day, I welcome irreverence in your pages - and it's good to see it spreading. Take Susan Bassnett's piece on dress codes (Working Knowledge, October 29)....
Susan Bassnett is obviously influenced more by style than substance. It's a sad reflection of our present pass that colleagues who should know better are seduced by the pseudo-authoritative veneer of...
Len Fisher repeats a common tale - that the Astronomer Royal pronounced that "space travel is bunk" a few weeks before Sputnik 1 was launched (Features, October 29). However, this "quote" has not...
Alison Wolf's argument for the introduction of an SAT-type test was persuasive (Opinion, October 22). Selecting on the basis of A levels alone does not always ensure the brightest students get to the...
One point that Alan Ryan might have made (Opinion, October 29) is that it is unsurprising that the Government denies that it intends to insist that universities meet their benchmarks. As benchmarks...
"The question is whether God is more probable than Russell's teapot. There may be good reasons to say yes. If so, they will be scientific ones. Let's hear them," says Richard Dawkins (Soapbox,...
Richard Dawkins is wrong in saying that the 19th century saw the triumph of science over religion. The battle rattled on into the 20th century and was more an armistice: a tacit agreement about where...
It was nice to see the department of economic and social history at Glasgow University mentioned in Peter Wardley's review of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History (Books, October 29). We are...

 World University Rankings Published in The Times Higher on 5 November 2004 A first attempt to compare universities around the globe Editorial: Top performers on the global stage take a bow  ...
Heather Leach argues against narrative flow in the essay that won the Palgrave Macmillan/ Times Higher humanities and social sciences writing prize. Last year I was 60 - a threshold. I tilt my head...
The experience of African-American studies has lessons for the UK despite debates about its aims and direction, Stephen Phillips finds in the last of our series on black academics. In 2001, Harvard...