Masters or slaves of their time?
How does personality affect politics? Huw Richards considers the academic perspectives. To what extent can an individual affect history? Are individuals wholly independent actors or entirely...
How does personality affect politics? Huw Richards considers the academic perspectives. To what extent can an individual affect history? Are individuals wholly independent actors or entirely...
Ian Kershaw examines the extent to which strong leaders can effect sweeping political change. How did Hitler's narcissism influence his dominance of German politics during the Third Reich? How far...
Social scientists must regulate the ethics of their research or risk having rules imposed on them, says Ron Iphofen The ethics of scientists have gained increasing prominence in the past few years,...
Michael North reports on the opportunities for academic writers to reach a popular readership and asks established authors for their top tips. The philosopher A. C. Grayling recalls that in the 1980s...
With Saddam in US hands and the economy on track, Dubya should win a second term, says Huw Richards Unlike the only other father and son US presidents, John and John Quincy Adams, George W. Bush...
Students who live with mum and dad remain adolescents and never reach their intellectual potential, argues Frank Furedi. In the late 1980s, I was sitting with a group of German postgraduates at the...
Anna Fazackerley finds that those who are home-schooled may be more mature than their peers. "Your educational background is outlandishly weird," a frank undergraduate admissions tutor at the...
How does personality affect politics? Huw Richards considers the academic perspectives. To what extent can an individual affect history? Are individuals wholly independent actors or entirely...
Ian Kershaw examines the extent to which strong leaders can effect sweeping political change. How did Hitler's narcissism influence his dominance of German politics during the Third Reich? How far...
Social scientists must regulate the ethics of their research or risk having rules imposed on them, says Ron Iphofen The ethics of scientists have gained increasing prominence in the past few years,...
There is a lot of muddled thinking about "poor" students ("Grants gamble to save bill", THES , January 9), though not by Charles Clarke. All students are poor. It is their backgrounds and families...
If anyone is still confused about the ideology behind Labour's project, they should read "Blair bets all on wooing rebels" ( THES , January 9). Wendy Piatt of the Institute of Public Policy Research...
I am a lecturer about to be made redundant by an institution that is not overstaffed but is desperately underfunded. In eight months, just under half my department will have left, more than a third...
The higher education bill will not make decisions of the Office of the Independent Adjudicator legally binding, as you suggest ("Upfront fees ditched as access and complaints are fine-tuned", THES ,...
It is misleading to suggest that "laboratory-based subjects will not lose out" on teaching funding ("Hefce teaching windfall is boost for humanities", THES , January 9). In arriving at the...