Laurie Taylor Column
" The renaming of courses for marketing reasons, especially when the names do not reflect the content of the course, is not helpful " - Jill Johnson of the Universities and Colleges Admissions...
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Alan Ryan
As affirmative action goes back to the US Supreme Court, the widespread belief is that diversity is a good thing. But is it? It's 25 years since the US Supreme Court decided - by the narrowest five-...
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Leader: Regulator will have little impact on real access
After weeks of hysteria over supposed social engineering, the brief for the Office for Fair Access begs the question: what was all the fuss about? The answer, of course, is that this week's proposals...
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King Edward II’s Death – Red-Hot Poker or Red Herring?
The grisly tale of Edward II’s murder may have been nothing more than a medieval con job, argues Ian Mortimer
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The last line of defence
John Lee Malvo could be executed if found guilty in the Washington sniper case. A local academic and his students are working to keep the teenager off death row. Walter Ellis reports Justice must not...
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Bellicose, intimidating? Moi?
There are no excuses for bullying, but there are reasons why it occurs. Valerie Atkinson considers some approaches to the problem Ask yourself what makes a bully. Unshackled power? Structural...
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Life's lethal quality control
A US businessman's claims to have found the unseen architect of evolution fell on deaf ears. But after a string of coincidences, some scientists are starting to listen. Geoff Watts reports One day in...
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Not even war excuses this 'dark and bloody' affair
At My Lai, US troops slaughtered 400 Vietnamese civilians. Will American military justice be able to prevent similar events from occurring in Iraq? asks Kendrick Oliver On the morning of March 16...
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Free trade is not a problem - but poverty is
Mike Moore, former director-general of the World Trade Organisation, sat down with LSE economist David Held to discuss the market's role in helping poor countries, the shameful protectionism of rich...
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Rid science of secrecy culture 1
The government chief scientific adviser, Sir David King, is I hope more aware of the serious way "business cash skews university science" than his remarks reported from a Royal Society meeting imply...
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Rid science of secrecy culture 2
Technology transfer as described in the profile of Susan Searle ("Imperial mint maker", THES, March 28) forms only a part of the spectrum of valuable and dynamic activities that occur at the academic...
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Pro-war protest 1
Meghnad Desai ("The UN must swap living in the past for the real world", THES, April 4) and Alan Read write two very different but related articles on the war in Iraq. Read suggests that academics...
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Pro-war protest 2
The threatened closure of departments of Middle Eastern, African and Asian studies, despite healthy student intakes and widely acclaimed research, is ill-judged given the events in the Middle East....
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We need copyright
The duration of UK copyright was increased from 50 to 70 years not, as Chris Bunting writes ("Why should 'dead authors' descendants steal the livelihood of living writers", THES, April 4), because of...
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Code is a good start
Claire Milne (Why I, THES, April 4) takes a narrow approach to disability discrimination legislation affecting universities. Institutions should act in the spirit of the law, not simply follow the...