No grey areas in a green's world
Some researchers fear that the environmental lobby is turning away from scientific balance to push an anti-capitalist agenda by 'scaring the hell out' of people. Chris Bunting investigates Stephen...
Some researchers fear that the environmental lobby is turning away from scientific balance to push an anti-capitalist agenda by 'scaring the hell out' of people. Chris Bunting investigates Stephen...
I am not surprised at the correlation between research assessment exercise and Quality Assurance Agency scores. A department with above-average research funding is likely to have relatively more "...
While I am sympathetic to further education principals' frustration that universities might hijack foundation degrees rather than work in partnership ("FE chiefs air alarm over new degrees", THES ,...
Further education colleges are right to be concerned that higher education institutions will go it alone on foundation degrees. The Hefce consultation on teaching funding proposes that foundation...
Sir Harry Kroto believes the war against Iraq was illegal (Opinion, THES , September 12). This judgement is highly disputed among specialists in international law. Experts disagree, as did the...
Sir Harry Kroto is clearly against action that removed from power a tyrant who murdered, raped and mutilated thousands of his own people. Kroto claims to "espouse free thinking and have no mystical...
I was astonished by Sir Harry Kroto's view of Tony Blair and Iraq. Now we have the solution to the dilemmas of modern statecraft: listen to reasonable people. I am sure the prime minister is kicking...
Why do we persist with the expensive, time-consuming and blunt instrument of the research assessment exercise in subjects that have research councils ("Break up RAE scam", THES , September 12)? When...
How disappointing that you call postdoctoral researchers "students" ("Get a life? Not with our hours", THES , August 22). They are highly qualified professionals, many world experts in their fields....
For once, I am not sympathetic to Laurie Taylor's view of third-class degrees ( THES , September 12). At a college that no longer exists, we had the category of "Honourable Third" - some determined...
Peter Brown, secretary of the British Academy, writes that "all research funds are awarded in open competition" (Letters, THES , September 12). If he checks the BA's regulations, he will see that...
Just for the record: Fabrice Virgili - the author of Shorn Women: Gender and Punishment in Liberation France , which was reviewed by Richard Parish (Books, THES , September 5) - is a bloke. Jane...
Top-up fees present a unique opportunity to provide all students with laptops for only £200-£250 a year ("Top-ups are non-negotiable", THES , September 12). The savings involved in cutting the number...
Michael Rennie's critique of your upbeat analysis of sport science was too generalised (Letters, THES , September 12). At my institution, students may well study elements of swimming-pool management...
Ethics is not a field in itself, as Simon Lee makes out (Why I, THES , September 5) - it is interdisciplinary. Teaching it depends on epistemology and the study of perception, human nature and...