'Open access' for the rich only
The article "Call to put research free on websites" ( THES , Dec 19/26) is welcome, but it repeated the most frequent misunderstanding of open-access self-archiving - a persistent error that keeps...
The article "Call to put research free on websites" ( THES , Dec 19/26) is welcome, but it repeated the most frequent misunderstanding of open-access self-archiving - a persistent error that keeps...
While I agree with Lord Winston's message to open an informed dialogue between scientists and the public ("The public pay, so give them their say", THES , January 2), the examples he chooses to...
Bill Durodié is right to say there is little scientific evidence to indicate that the MMR vaccine causes autism (Letters, THES , January 2). But most parents are not scientists with specialist...
So the University of Luton plans to make a further 50 lecturers redundant ("Redundancy drive aims to free up cash at Luton", THES , January 2). This means that it will have shed a total of nearly 200...
Brendan Simms writes in his review of A Century of Genocide that genocide "is as authentically European as croissants, borscht or dumplings" (Books, THES , January 2). He cannot be accused of...
Many of us across the university sector feel that the recent extensive exposure given to the Russell Group is misguided and, frankly, boring. This self-selecting lobby of so-called "top" universities...
I note the list of those in higher education who received New Year gongs, and your shortlist of those who perhaps should have but did not (News, THES , January 2). Where, however, was the list of...
Can you please reassure your readers that the only reason for the omission of my name and photograph from the list you published last week of those in higher education whose names were omitted from...
Angela McRobbie (Features, THES , January 2) asks what kind of politics feminism can offer to pre-teens and young women in a culture awash with pornography. As sexual identities proliferate and we...
Peter Elford gives a negative view of the pay and reward structure at the University of Nottingham (Letters, THES , December 12). The university is implementing a reward strategy, that, in line with...
Lee Harvey's polemic against the National Student Survey ("Scrap that student survey now", THES , December 12) is an excellent example of what most concerns the steering committee for the project -...
Michael Mann is a respected sociologist, renowned for his painstaking scholarship. Then why, asks Laurie Taylor, was he so quick to predict certain disaster for the US invasion of Iraq? Asking...
How can the University of the M25 attract more students? pondered the bigwigs at the Christmas bash. Offer them a bargain, of course. Ted Prince reports Who am I? What am I for?" The vice-chancellor...
Fears that civil liberties might be eroded by proposed mental health legislation caused alarm, but the government's mental health tsar is trying to help get the balance right, writes Adam James He...
Puccini faced it, so did Rodgers and Hammerstein, and today Andrew Lloyd Webber is a victim. Why can't academics help but sneer at popular composers, asks Adrian Mourby Andrew Lloyd Webber is a...