Fuzzy logic
"Who is Smithers to call us fuzzy?" (Letters, August ). He is a chartered psychologist. In my remarks to The Times Higher (August 20), I was reflecting my own disappointment at psychology's lack of...
"Who is Smithers to call us fuzzy?" (Letters, August ). He is a chartered psychologist. In my remarks to The Times Higher (August 20), I was reflecting my own disappointment at psychology's lack of...
The shameful book burning at London Metropolitan University will further damage its image ("Book pulped at London Met", August ). Ex vice-chancellor Roderick Floud should have sorted out any problems...
Richard Lynn writes that our exam board has "apparently reinvented the intelligence test" (Letters, August ). We have done no such thing, as he would understand if he visited either of our thinking...
Last week's article on house costs ("House prices leave city dwellers out in the cold", August ) claims that "staff at St Andrews University enjoy the best prospects for property - the average salary...
The debate about A-level grade inflation (or not) misses the point. One of the grades' main uses is to enable universities to obtain the best candidates for available places. If an increasing...
Last week's article about falling levels of basic mathematical skills among electronics and physics students at York University who have particular maths A-level grades is interesting ("B-grade maths...
Gamma minus for clear-headedness to the drafters of the Higher Education Act 2004 ("Union calls for strong watchdog", August ) on one or two additional points. They have neglected to repeal the...
I read William Rubinstein's review of The Burning Tigris: A History of the Armenian Genocide (Books, August 6) with amazement. Rubinstein not only states that there was an Armenian genocide, which is...
I am sure academics will endorse Bruce Charlton's views on the latest piece of bureaucratic dottiness from civil servants, although whoever chose the title "transparency" obviously has a nice sense...
George Macdonald Ross is right (Letters, August ). The concept of plagiarism is complex and disputed, but perhaps also endemic in academic life as a whole. In a brief check using Joint Information...
Since the Government feels entitled to start wars on the basis of plagiarised "dodgy dossiers", I fail to see why universities such as Sunderland should be embarrassed about awarding degrees on the...
Britain is an exception to the common nationalist belief that every nation should constitute a state and that a state is weaker if it is multinational (as J. S. Mill said in his famous debate with...
In England, the Church of England is established by law as the national church, and though there is no established church in Wales or Scotland, the Crown is legally bound to protect the position of...
Muslims are not alone in facing the pressures of finding a balance between national identity and diasporic ambitions. Over the past year, the vision of multicultural Britain that held sway for much...
Rumours of the death of multiculturalism are exaggerated and can alienate the very communities that must be brought into the mainstream. In the 1950s, Britain's non-white ethnic minorities...