Letter: In brief(1)
Samuel Richardson's novel was not called Clarissa Harlow , nor was it serialised in a weekly magazine over a year ("The ultimate in fantasy novels", Modern Language Association Convention supplement...
Samuel Richardson's novel was not called Clarissa Harlow , nor was it serialised in a weekly magazine over a year ("The ultimate in fantasy novels", Modern Language Association Convention supplement...
No legitimate British university gives credit for life experience ("I'd like one doner kebab and a PhD to take away", THES, November 15). Awarding credit for experiential learning involves...
Your article on British American Tobacco funding of Nottingham University ("Charities fume over tobacco funding", THES, December 8) quotes me as labelling the university's vice-chancellor "clever,...
The article "Rerouting world waterways" (Research, THES, December 1) omitted to say that Dams and Development: A New Framework for Decision-Making by the World Commission on Dams is published by...
I read with concern "Union motion to abandon ILT" (THES, December 8). I have been involved with the Institute for Learning and Teaching as an accreditor and as a member since its creation, and I feel...
The ILT deserves support, not attack. Some of the AUT's concerns seem to reflect a lack of understanding. For example, group accreditation for all lecturers in a department that had passed a teaching...
Explanations of men's creative peak and decline have been around for some while ("Fancy a look at my lab, darling?" THES, December 8). Retrospective studies reveal that the period of creative...
Gary Craig writes that "the British government's attitude towards immigration is profoundly racist", asserting that it treats professional people better than refugees and asylum-seekers (Letters,...
This is the last edition of The THES this year and indeed, according to purists, this millennium. To set the scene for the next decade, if not the next 1,000 years, this issue includes our second...
The Times Higher Education Supplement last year celebrated the millennium with a magazine reviewing 1,000 years of intellectual history. This year, which for purists is the true millennium, we look...

We need to create a new moral framework, says Fay Weldon (right), for a society in which science can overturn nature and religion has lost its role as a guiding force Science - which these days seems...

The world could feed itself and have plenty left over. Instead, we allow 800 million people to be malnourished. George Monbiot explains It is the fattest of times, it is the thinnest of times. The...
Some 56 per cent of children aged under five are malnourished in Bangladesh, compared with just 6 per cent in Brazil. - Oxford Handbook of the World Two-thirds of the world's population will be...
Macroecology champion puts bits of habitat into big picture Kevin Gaston , Royal Society university research fellow at Sheffield University, is helping change the way science thinks about...
Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research How to weather the storm, drought and floods Persuading a politician to look beyond the next few elections is never easy. Our changing climate is blissfully...