Ms Behaved?
Can a feminist professor sexually harass her female students? No, says Jane Gallop, who argues that harassment applies only to men and that, in her experience, consensual teacher-student sex is no...
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Congregation says its prayers
Anthony Kenny looks back at the changes Oxford University has undergone during the past 25 years and asks what the future holds under a Blair administration This is a time of uncertainty for Oxford....
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Lancing the Euro-septic boil
Last week the Cambridge Union debated the motion 'Herr Kohl succeeded where Hitler failed'. Edward Pearce went to do battle for Britain, Kohl and common sense It was a serious matter to be asked to...
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Things ain't what they used to be
History may be 'bunk', a 'distillation of rumour' or 'repeat itself', but it certainly isn't what it was. Harriet Swain reports on the battle being waged between postmodernists and traditionalists in...
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Confessions of an errant tipster
Not for the first time, psephologists got the election result wrong. Ivor Crewe explains why he and his friends failed to predict a landslide The Conservative party was not the only casualty of the...
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Language, meaning and agency
Judith Butler is alarmed about the growing American tendency to ban offensive words. Kate Worsley talks to her. Â Imagine you are taking a domestic flight across the United States. The seatbelt signs...
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Reduced to tiers
If science is about reductionism, how come we are drowning in a sea of data? asks Sara Abdulla It is the marvel of the universe that, with a limited number of elementary particles, we have ended up...
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How to get ahead with a PhD
Postgraduates do not to realise how employable they are. Pat Cryer explains how to get a well-paid job
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The mistress of all she surveys
Susan McRae, director of the Population and Household Change Programme, talks to Alison Utley about directing Britain's key social research which will inform policy Susan McRae displays a thoroughly...
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Bunny girls, clones and a comet
The media loves science and scientists increasingly need the media. It is a symbiotic and sometimes fraught relationship. Julia Hinde reports Science, it appears, is suddenly sexy. Where it may have...
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The boom with no yardstick
Postgraduate study needs a framework to deliver quality and standards, argues Robert Burgess A revolution has occurred in higher education in the past ten years as more students choose to engage in...
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A professional in the dock
Is the taught doctorate a 'dumbing down' of higher education or a model idea? Emma Westcott reports The professional or taught doctorate is a little-known qualification which was first introduced in...
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High noon in the lecture hall
Young tutors should be trained to cope with students behaving badly, argue Adrienne Cutner and Isis Brook More and more postgraduates are teaching and there seems to be little doubt that they are...
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Two single females and a slimy supervisor
What happens when a doctoral student finds the intellectual attentions of their supervisor turning into sexual harassment? Deborah Lee reports A good work relationship between PhD student and...
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Is she a news reader or a new Darwinist?
Ambitious young academics should cast off their cords and jeans and get smart if they want to climb the career ladder. Joanne Entwistle reports Last week 55 former academics took their seats in the...