Institutionalised sexism discourages many women from a career in science. What's being done about it? asks Helen Hague. Baroness Greenfield broke the pre-publication purdah surrounding her keenly...
Psychotic determination and guilt have lifted two dons to literary success. Olga Wojtas met them. Richard Morgan has been variously reported as winning $1 million or £1 million from Hollywood for the...
It's fashionable, accessible, flexible, challenging, rigorous, diverse and vocationalI No wonder so many people are signing up for art history. Shearer West reports. When Prince William enrolled at...
If the US topples Saddam Hussein, will it then foster a democratic society in Iraq or just replace an intractable tyrant with one more amenable to its interests? asks Charles Tripp What will happen...
Stephen Wolfram had such confidence in his 'new intellectual structure' that he decided to sidestep peer review and publish A New Kind of Science himself. But while the book has proved a hit with the...
Although they consider Saddam Hussein a tyrant, many Iraqi exiles view a US invasion of their homeland with ambivalence. Three academics share their reservations with Chris Bunting Mohammed Hassan...
On the 60th anniversary of El Alamein, Adrian Mourby finds historical opinion divided on General Montgomery's part in the crucial Allied victory I'm worried that he is after my job," Churchill...
In the wake of the Bali bombs, C. W. Watson urges the international community to pause and consider Indonesia's past before jumping to conclusions. The murder of more than 180 innocent people dancing...
Richard Barker's claim that he lost his libel case because of a clash between two different systems that use different languages is self-serving humbug. The trial was about a clash not of systems and...
It is not often that I agree with Richard Webster's views about child abuse but his call for Richard Barker, who led the Shieldfield inquiry, to resign from Northumbria University or be dismissed...
I am a colleague of Richard Barker, although I do not know him personally. I do, however, know something about the psychology of child testimony, having published in that area. I cannot agree with...
Gary Day rightly takes people to task for bastardising English but he unfairly tars all managers with the same brush (Why I, THES , October 11). Linguistic excesses are every bit as likely to be...
More pernicious than "bureaucratese" is the misuse of language to distort meaning. Take learning, for example. It is neither delivered nor provided. It is learners who learn. There is also a...
At the Conservative Party Conference, law student Georgina Hill argued that taxpayers would get a better deal from having "less universities" and "less obscure and, frankly, worthless degrees" ("...
Could the illusion of the moon appearing larger when near the horizon be explained by how we see clouds? ("Lunar puzzle that has clues but no answers", Books, THES , October 4). Suppose we have a...