Gordon McPherson is going ghost-hunting in preparation for his next musical composition. Olga Wojtas reports Carrying out research into haunted houses and the voices of the dead might be considered a...
Was the Elephant Man driven to suicide by the medical establishment's exploitation? asks Nadja Durbach The scenes are among the most heartless in cinema history: a drunken, abusive showman exhibiting...
As the West's war on terror intensifies, Muslims are increasingly becoming the focus of suspicion in Britain. Their predicament, writes David Cesarani, bears striking similarities to the experiences...
Scientists must share information if we are to bolster public defences against biological and chemical attacks, writes Herbert Huppert The recent bombings in Saudi Arabia and Morocco and the carnage...
I was bemused to read that Oxford University has finally decided (sort of) to take its postgraduates seriously, the way the institutions that it compares itself to (Harvard, Yale, Princeton) have...
Your editorial on the future of Oxford ( THES , June 20) declares that those who wish it to become more like an Ivy League university, with more postgraduates and a greater emphasis on research, "...
While it is true that Oxford is an extremely crowded place in which to try to expand, £40 million has just been spent purchasing the Radcliffe Infirmary site and £60 million allocated for its...
Paul Mackney, general secretary of Natfhe, has tried to justify his support of lecturers who refuse to teach students on political grounds ("A violent reaction", THES , June 20) after critical...
We write to express dismay about the decision of Durham University this week to shut its East Asia department. Staff were formally told about the proposal only six days before it was due to be...
According to Gordon Graham "The work of Isaac NewtonI contributes nothing to economic prosperity". As the whole of mechanics (engines and machinery of all types) follows from Newton's laws of motion...
Richard Evans misses the biggest question in history ("Our job is to explain; it is for others to judge", THES , June 13). Finding "the truth" in the facts of history reveals a failure to understand...
Chris Durston's letter ( THES , June 13) about how small amounts of research assessment exercise cash can be put to good use highlights the value of many 3A units. It also points out that some...
Gordon Graham ("Society will never survive on bread and circuses alone", THES , June 20) defends pure mathematics as stimulating and maintaining society's intellectual life. But I suspect that most...
Canadian universities have become increasingly reliant on private sources of revenue as public-funding cutbacks hit core financing, according to government figures.From 1986 to 2001, state funding...
Brussels, 25 Jun 2003 Taking a concept for an innovative product or process and making it a commercial success can be a risky and drawn out process, especially when such a concept involves a large...