In 2007, researchers at London's Natural History Museum went into their archives to see if anything in their holdings would be relevant to projects commemorating the 200th anniversary of the...
In the early 1970s, I spent some time trying to persuade low-income working-class families in a small Yorkshire town to claim the recently introduced rent benefits.Perhaps it's not surprising that a...
Well, that's rude! Yes, but Peter J. Smith seeks more insight into the use of invective throughout history
In 2008 Cisco, one of the world's biggest technology corporations, commissioned from Metiri, an educational consulting firm specialising in educational technology policy, a "white paper on equipping...
Ten years ago the first rough draft of the human genome sequence was announced in a millennial media show that linked President Bill Clinton in the White House with Prime Minister Tony Blair in...
David Norman enjoyed an insightful tribute to a fossil hunter, but feels the public may not concur
Jean-Claude Kaufmann, a sociologist at the Sorbonne, is a prolific writer; he has published at least 10 books in French (it's hard to keep count) since 2001 alone. A few of them have recently...
(?) = Review forthcomingARTS AND DESIGN- Pictures for Use and Pleasure: Vernacular Painting in High Qing ChinaBy James Cahill, professor emeritus of Chinese art, University of California, Berkeley....
As the many critics of your article "The appliance of extra science is no economic panacea" (26 August) have pointed out, the analysis used by the University of Essex's Paul Whiteley to "refute" the...
The basic problem with the UK academy stems from the fact that it has mostly abandoned its traditional role of educating people and in its stead has adopted a business model of research, training and...
Although Swansea University's decision to cut the number of academics in its modern languages department from 22 to 12 at least has the redeeming feature of not relegating the institution to hick...
In the article "Overseas growth exposes Brits to knowledge vacuum" (2 September), it was implied that I believe that lecturers at Newcastle University are being asked to prepare material beyond their...
The story of the "lost encyclical" (Books, Pope and Devil: The Vatican's Archives and the Third Reich, 19 August) is an oft-revived one, with the suggestion that an encyclical drafted for Pope Pius...
Times Higher Education's cover line "Graduate take-off" (2 September) caught my eye, but its appeal to me as a new graduate was negated by the accompanying image. Why present a phallically suggestive...
I write to protest the article that cited David Colquhoun on systems biology and traditional Chinese medicine ("A bridge too far? Western life science and Chinese medicine 'ludicrous' bedfellows", 26...