Hail Tottenham
Frank Furedi's comments on the proposed Middlesex University development at Tottenham Hale are unacceptable (Soapbox, May 28). The site has excellent transport links to central London and is adjacent...
Frank Furedi's comments on the proposed Middlesex University development at Tottenham Hale are unacceptable (Soapbox, May 28). The site has excellent transport links to central London and is adjacent...
David Rose (Letters, May 21) defends the new "nominal" government social-class schema as being the product of a seven-year programme of research involving fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences...
David Rose accuses me of "cavalier criticisms" of the government social-class schema. It is Rose who is being cavalier. I was not criticising the schema, but rather the use that had been made of it,...
The pre-publication review of my book Violence and Democracy (Books, May 21) by a professional ceramicist came as a surprise. Pity then that every one of Ivo Mosley's polemical claims are so poorly...
Paul Cobley (Letters, May 14) proposes the bold hypothesis that peer review can be compromised by snobbery, that this is more pronounced between those whose institutions are of almost equal status...
The reasons that Ian Wilmut gives for justifying the criminalisation of human cloning are unconvincing and slightly disturbing (Books, May 21). Present techniques are, he says, inefficient, and...
I am a former professor at the University of Kent at Canterbury (though not in the English department), so I may be regarded as biased against the student plagiarist who is threatening to sue it (...
Modern Darwinists have sidestepped data on homosexuality in animals and are thus complicit in the persecution of gays, says Joan Roughgarden In 1871, Darwin wrote: "Males of almost all animals have...
Hostility to the science in social sciences will harm the disciplines and diminish their role in public life, writes Max Steuer When I sat down to write The Scientific Study of Society some ten years...
Margaret Alexander should be retired. Instead, Olga Wojtas hears, she set up a project to promote grey power The director of Queen Margaret University College's Centre for the Older Person's Agenda...
It's exam time, but not as we know it. Ted Prince has a killer idea that could catch on Publicity, like love, is a many splendoured thing. It comes in many different guises. At the University of the...
In the second of our series on democracy around the world, Huw Richards explores the political portents for a post-Castro Cuba Well-informed Miami sources announced the imminent fall of Fidel Castro...
Merging two London institutes to form a centre for the study of the Americas will allow scholars to explore novel comparisons and connections across a hemisphere, says Huw Richards Little is more...
Cambridge calls for improved A levels Cambridge University challenged the government yesterday to reform the "unreliable" A-level system in an attempt to ensure a fairer admissions process for...
Brussels, 2nd June 2004 Yesterday, the GALILEO Joint Undertaking launched the second call for proposals for research activities dedicated to GALILEO, with an overall budget of €67 million. The aim is...