Men who juggle campus and Pampers
There is much talk about equality in universities, but how many male academics actually take on the role of primary carer in the home? Caroline Davis reports. Becoming a full-time dad was never part...
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'Balancing fatherhood and professional life need not mean the annihilation of academic ambition'
I used to think that male academics didn't do children. And, if they did, they acted as if they were in permanent denial about their dark secret. I remember the time when a young colleague...
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A scholarly spine props up first draft of history
An instant history of the Iraq war does not mean university presses put cash before scholarship, says Walter Ellis. Academic publishers in the US have entered the market. Realising that there is a...
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Poor mental health is no fantasy 1
Frank Furedi ("Get rid of those professional stabilisers", THES , October 17) may be right to suggest a counselling culture can cause some people to exaggerate their mental ill health and...
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Poor mental health is no fantasy 4
It is the time of year when our BSc therapeutic counselling students get to grips with sociological aspects of the profession. Frank Furedi's article will be a useful resource. It raises important...
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Poor mental health is no fantasy 1
Frank Furedi ("Get rid of those professional stabilisers", THES , October 17) may be right to suggest a counselling culture can cause some people to exaggerate their mental ill health and...
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Poor mental health is no fantasy 4
It is the time of year when our BSc therapeutic counselling students get to grips with sociological aspects of the profession. Frank Furedi's article will be a useful resource. It raises important...
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Skewing the evidence 2
The phrase "since the 2001 al-Qaida attacks" was wrongly attributed to me. In my view, "al-Qaida", as an omnipotent terrorist organisation, is a figment of the US media's imagination and there's no...
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Accidental funding 1
I have much sympathy with the Higher Education Funding Council for England's wish to maintain the "cherished principle" that similar courses should receive public funding at similar levels ("Fees...
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Healthy manoeuvre
Some may fear the prospect of the National Health Service University poaching pre-registration nursing education ("Health academics voice fears over NHSU takeover", THES , October 17), others may not...
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Too bright to see
The photograph accompanying "Night light hinders UK astronomers" ( THES , October 17) was not an example of light pollution that prevents us observing the night sky but a perfect image of the Milky...
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Poor mental health is no fantasy 2
I was alarmed by Frank Furedi's selective use of our 2001-02 survey data on counselling in higher and further education. In trumpeting his claims of a rampant "therapy culture" in British...
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Poor mental health is no fantasy 3
Some of the most academically brilliant students have some form of psychological problem. Would Frank Furedi rather they were not supported in a way that enables them to fulfil their potential? Would...
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Poor mental health is no fantasy 5
The news story "Mentors count personal costs" ( THES , October 17) thankfully, but unknowingly, pre-empted Frank Furedi's provocative twaddle. Student mentors, who do not have their own mentors,...
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Skewing the evidence 1
No reasonable person can defend ignorant or intemperate denunciations or harassment of other scholars, be they pro-Israeli or pro-Palestinian ("Forget reds under the bed, there's Arabs in the attic...