Seeds of real relief
Modern anthropology, the study of power in all its forms, is focusing on how elites and institutions affect individual lives and how the alienated can be empowered. Anthropological research on famine...
Modern anthropology, the study of power in all its forms, is focusing on how elites and institutions affect individual lives and how the alienated can be empowered. Anthropological research on famine...
Modern anthropology, the study of power in all its forms, is focusing on how elites and institutions affect individual lives and how the alienated can be empowered. Those poor and desperate enough to...
As the working week gets shorter, work-related stress appears to be on the rise. David Wainwright and Michael Calnan ask why. In February, an appeal court ruling overturned compensation payments of...
Ground down by departmental budget cuts? Eat more broccoli. Lost out on a crucial research grant? Walk for half an hour a day. Worried that your institution's restructuring plans will mean job losses...
English is as relevant as any subject. The world just needs to be told, says Bob Eaglestone. Something is rotten in the state of English. The study of literature and language is flourishing. It has...
The UK legal system found that writer David Irving had manipulated and falsified historical documents, but it also nearly scuppered an attempt by historian Richard Evans to publish his account of...
I was sorry to read about Alice Smyth's plight, but some of the problem is reflected in her references to her contact with careers advisers "before or since university". Didn't she use her careers...
Robin Dunbar has a narrow view of what biology is all about ("Biology in terminal condition", THES , June 14). Although it may be true that applications for straight biology are decreasing, the...
In response to claims that the University of Leeds is "set to follow" other medical schools in making redundancies ("RAE plunges Bristol medics into crisis", THES , June 14), we would like to...
The illustration of a naked woman set against fragments of a poem ("Make poetry a friend not a foe", THES , June 7) reflected the tired, cliched attitude to poetry that Ruth Padel was arguing against...
Your editorial ( THES , June 7) rightly calls for extra resources to achieve a 50 per cent participation rate, but your analysis of postcode premiums elsewhere demonstrates the inadequacy of this...
The finding that 28 per cent of UK university lecturers are over 50 is used to imply that we are an ageing profession ("No way to treat valuable citizens", THES , June 7). But if the standard...
Pay discrimination between ethnic-minority and other staff is impossible to verify if variables such as qualifications, age and experience are not taken into account ("St Andrews attacked on ethnic...
Ian McDonald identifies with Sussex University students and their claimed fear of being taught by someone who "deems them genetically inferior" ("No refuge for racists within the academy", THES ,...
Ian McDonald argues that Geoffrey Sampson's views represent British National Party-style attitudes. Odd then that Sampson says whites tend to have a lower IQ than Asians. McDonald thinks that anyone...