Peerless process
Contrary to your leader (June 25), the main problem with peer review is that it simply does not live up to its name: reviewer and reviewed are often not peers. On the whole, reviewers represent a...
Contrary to your leader (June 25), the main problem with peer review is that it simply does not live up to its name: reviewer and reviewed are often not peers. On the whole, reviewers represent a...
Bob Brecher replying to Alan Dershowitz's recommendation of torture in some legal cases (Letters, June 18) rightly stresses that this would be a slippery slope, but he fails to make the point that...
Your publication of the Honours list ("Queen's Birthday Honours", June 18) is much appreciated, but you have confused Knights Bachelor (which all those in your list received) with the KBE, which was...
David Rose (Letters, June 25) explains why we need to group people by social class using the example of how such classifications reveal social inequalities in health. But the introduction of the...
I feel Susan Bassnett perhaps overstated her point when she said "there is so much guidance around (for academics) about how to write (CVs)" (Professional, June 25). There is much advice for non-...
The seasoned author/editor is never surprised to run across a less-than-flattering review. One shrugs it off and moves on. But Jacques Guy's review of The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's...
If Iranian men divorce, they have to give their wives back pay for housework. As the West pushes for democracy in Iraq, Huw Richards asks if we should be focusing on its more liberal neighbour, in...
As power is handed over in Iraq, academics assess the impact of US foreign policy at home and abroad. Whatever America's intentions in the Middle East, most of the Arab world views the superpower as...
As power is handed over in Iraq, academics assess the impact of US foreign policy at home and abroad. Have the neocons had their day or could they bounce back? ask Stefan Halper and Jonathan Clarke....
As the Anglo-American Conference of Historians gathers, we offer three takes on its theme, wealth and poverty. The fate of the rich over the 20th century has been largely in the hands of the taxman,...
As the Anglo-American Conference of Historians gathers, we offer three takes on its theme, wealth and poverty. The archetype of successful immigrant entrepreneurs was built on the rise of the rag...
As the Anglo-American Conference of Historians gathers, we offer three takes on its theme, wealth and poverty. Adrian Green glimpses the start of the modern property market in a 16th-century estate...
Brussels, 30 June 2004 At the conference "Brain drain, brain gain: new challenges" held today in Paris, Philippe Busquin, the European Research Commissioner, launched the new European network of...
Brussels, 30 June 2004 In a knowledge-based economy, where new ideas and scientific knowledge are central to innovation and growth, investment in human resources in science & technology (S...
Paris, Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie, 30 juin 2004 Conférence « Fuite ou circulation des cerveaux » Paris, Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie, 30 juin 2004 Je tiens...