Week 1: Friday Today is the official launch day of my new book, Quantum: A Guide for the Perplexed , a layman's guide to the mysterious quantum world. To mark the occasion I am invited to give a...
What is a university? Since the 1980s, it has been increasingly difficult to give a clear answer to this question. When the government of the day decided to rebrand polytechnics as universities,...
Europe's hostility to modified crops should not stop their use in the third world, says Sandy Thomas The debate on genetically modified crops is now officially under way. Three years or so on from...
There is only one winner in national bargaining - the employers, argues Peter Knight In last week's THES , Tom Wilson of lecturers' union Natfhe extolled the virtues of national collective bargaining...
Striking a balance between starving and spoon-feeding postgraduates is a tricky business, says Gina Wisker Doing a masters and, later, a PhD were two of the most important ventures I ever undertook....
What is your experience of teaching? Pat Leon asks teachers how they manage Name: Maggie Gordon Age: 58 Job: Senior lecturer in graphic/typographic design and year tutor at Kingston University Salary...
Slavery and Emancipation
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work by a Victorian novelist published by Dickens: "It is a great thing for a lad when he is first...
Charles Darwin - Darwin and the Barnacle - Fossils, Finches and Fuegians
Coming of Age as a Poet
A Companion to the Vietnam War - All the Way with JFK?
The Mourner's Song
Restoration of the Republic
Rule of Power or Rule of Law?
From: The vice-chancellor Subject: Working from home At a recent meeting of the Staff Efficiency Committee (myself and the bursar) it was agreed that the following clarifications should be made to...