Oh Brother! 1
Clearly THES journalists, like TV schedulers, have to find little amusements to celebrate the season. But with Ofcom revving up for business and the battle over the BBC's charter in full swing, it...
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Oh Brother! 2
What are the time-management secrets of those academics who apparently manage to do their teaching, research, consultancy and administration and still find hours to ponder the rival demerits of Big...
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In defence of report
The report "Influential teaching technique rubbished" ( THES , November 28) did serious injustice to two research reports to be published this month by the Learning and Skills Research Centre. Less...
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Religion vs science 1
David Trim (Letters, THES , December 12) suggests that the "terrible consequences" of religious belief decried by Richard Dawkins (Books, THES , November 28) are matched by similar "terrible...
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Religion vs science 2
Trevor Stone maintains that there are problems with science only when its data are misused by "others" (Letters, THES , December 19/26). What of the German university scientists who supported Nazi...
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Funding madness
I read with incredulity the caption accompanying the photo of Wendy Miller and her children ("Rebel MPs steadfast against variable fees", THES , December 19/26). Miller will, along with 36 other...
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UK must compete
Alan Ryan claims (Opinion, THES , December 19/26) that "it is not economically essential to compete with the US at a blue-skies level [since] Japan's growth rate was a compound 7 per cent per annum...
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Talking turkey
Your photo caption says that our "Christmas turkey could be descended from a prehistoric creature" ("A dinosaur for dinner?", THES , December 19/26). Surely every species is? Charlie Owen University...
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Crusaders for a truly free flow of ideas
Authors make their research available to publishers for nothing only to have it offered back to them at a price. Geoff Watts reports on efforts to change this Item: preparing this article, I log on...
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The lengths they'll go to for an Olympic gold
The key to Britain's recent success in international swimming lies in the appliance of science. Ben Carlish reports The waters of the Dublin swimming pool have barely settled after the Great Britain...
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Buy our brand new world?
Branding has become a buzzword for universities, but many academics remain sceptical at best. So we asked Robert Mighall, a former Oxford English fellow who is now a branding consultant, to do email...
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The rise and rise of porn chic
As pornography creeps into the mainstream and sleaze style becomes the vogue, how should feminists react, asks Angela McRobbie How should feminists respond to the pervasive, ironic normalisation of "...
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The public pay, so give them their say
The future of British science may rest on our ability to engage the population in an informed discussion about what research is done and how it is used, argues Lord Winston Two weeks ago in this...
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Crusaders for a truly free flow of ideas
Authors make their research available to publishers for nothing only to have it offered back to them at a price. Geoff Watts reports on efforts to change this Item: preparing this article, I log on...
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The lengths they'll go to for an Olympic gold
The key to Britain's recent success in international swimming lies in the appliance of science. Ben Carlish reports The waters of the Dublin swimming pool have barely settled after the Great Britain...