Biological mazes hide cure for cancer
The man who found the key to the cell cycle that drives life now wonders what directs it. Tim Hunt recounts his achievements and looks ahead to the future In biology, the questions look hard, but...
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Little small talk goes a long, long way
With research cash increasingly targeted at interdiscipIinary study and cutting-edge science becoming ever-more complex, the aphorism 'it's not what you know but who you know' has never been more apt...
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Is it right to refuse to teach a racist?
Natfhe's belief that academics should not have to teach BNP members raises the question of whether political correctness is curtailing freedom of speech. Matthew Baker reports In a Salford University...
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It wasn't only babies who hit the bottle in medieval Europe
Women's boozing might explain the high levels of child mortality that blighted the continent, argues Lynn Martin Growing up in late medieval Europe was not easy. Historical demographers have...
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In the Green Man's shadow
Britain's ancient woods are living time capsules of centuries of human exploitation of the environment. How best can we preserve them, asks Ian Rotherham Our complex and dynamic ancient woods are a...
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UK shuns Europe at its own risk
Juliet Lodge understates the UK level of ignorance of, and lack of commitment to, a European higher education area in her analysis of the government white paper (Opinion, THES, May 30). A briefing...
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Apocalyptic visions 1
The report "RAE reform to shut out one in three" ( THES, May 30) presents an apocalyptic vision and names me as its creator. It lists institutions that allegedly would no longer receive research...
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Apocalyptic visions
It is good that Sir Gareth Roberts' research quality assessment is designed to take the element of gambling out of submissions. But it seems inevitable that some departments will lose research money...
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UUK is loud and proud
Alison Wolf mistakenly states that vice-chancellors, through Universities UK, have failed to make clear their views on three issues (Opinion, THES, May 30). UUK has not been afraid to rock the boat,...
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Superfluous standard?
As an English-language specialist, I help students do what Martin Luck ("Give their grammar a fine-tuning", THES, May 23) suggests PhD students should do progressively: organise their writing, touch...
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No to intolerance 1
Refusing to teach British National Party members (Letters, THES, May 30) shows extreme intolerance and brings the very purpose of academia into question. Our purpose is either to teach within the...
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No to intolerance 2
In the course of a career, most teachers will come across students with whom they vehemently disagree. Specialising in ethnicity and nationalism, I have dealt with students here, in South Africa, and...
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Disabled check-up
The National Health Service should not only welcome medics with disabilities, but it should also consider how to support doctors who become disabled during their careers (Soapbox, THES, May 30). From...
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Utility and futility 1
Geoffrey Alderman asserts that a university's purpose is for academics alone to decide and that its taxpayer funding is for politicians and taxpayers to determine (Letters, THES, May 30). This will...
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Utility and futility 2
Charles Clarke should have looked more closely at UK provision in Baltic studies ("'Purist' Clarke states his case", THES, May 30). He would have found the Baltic Research Unit recently set up at the...