Divided stand on job protection
The guide to good practice in fixed-term and casual employment is advice from the employers' association to its members, but it binds them to nothing. It is all about managing, not reducing, casual...
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Divided stand on job protection
The UCEA proposals are twofold. First, they suggest employers should support the requirements of employment legislation - this is good news. Second, they attempt to put a seal of approval on the near...
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Anti-Zionist at heart
Norman Finkelstein is right to claim that there exists a thriving Holocaust industry ("Shaking down the Swiss", THES, July 21). A few years ago, when I was teaching in the United States, a colleague...
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A clean account
I was surprised to read that the head of Surrey University's management school was "in Mauritius with his wife on a trip paid for by the universityI carrying out several important duties. His wife's...
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Divert the cheats
In his report of internet plagiarism, Frank Furedi (Soapbox, THES, July 14) rightly highlights possible solutions. By contrast, another report ("Copycats roam in era of the net") deals with it as a...
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Foundation stones
The proposed foundation degree embodies part of the government's vision of getting half the population through "higher" education by 30. Many people question where these students will come from, if...
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Thorns among Roses
It is a bit rich of Herbert Gintis to warn about "a generation of leftist intellectuals" (Letters, THES, July 21). Has he abandoned his intellectual and political past? Is there to be no more Marxist...
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Sure to go with a bang
Laser scanners, electronic gadgets, nuclear weapons - we owe it all to quantum mechanics. John C. Baez looks at highlights from the London applied maths conference Like many others attending the 13th...
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Cutting edge
How would you define your discipline? A team at Loughborough has devised a formula that gets to the heart of the subject How can a discipline be defined? In looking for the answer, we considered a...
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Equations for universal truth
Arthur Jaffe takes an energetic look at what makes mathematical physics the queen bee of science Isaac Newton put mathematical physics on the map. Ever since, British scientists have played a pivotal...
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UK plc's ailing research industry and why exploitation may be just the tonic
When British Telecom announced in June that it held a US patent on the hyperlinking technology that lies at the heart of the web, it created a big stir. Here was a UK company set to earn huge...
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A flesh look at cannibalism
The ancient Greek historian Herodotus wrote with horror of the cannibals of the Eurasian steppes, but a new study suggests he may have been doing them a disservice. Eileen Murphy and Jim Mallory,...
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Going great guns for a song
The key to a happy, productive workplace could be music. Research has revealed that fast-paced tunes can boost worker productivity by up to 23 per cent, while slow songs have the opposite effect....
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Erasmus cold-shouldered
Students in the United Kingdom will be unable to compete with their European peers unless more is done to promote the benefits of a year's study abroad, Erasmus chief John Reilly has warned. Mr...
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European Union research programmes
An expert panel charged with evaluating European Union research programmes has concluded that the existing framework programmes are not enough. The panel wants a European research and technological...