Speaking Volumes: The English Constitution
Peter Hennessy on Walter Bagehot's The English Constitution . For 29 years I have been in thrall to a man and a book - Walter Bagehot and his The English Constitution. I read it one autumn evening in...
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Whitehall's superconductor
Robert May tells Martyn Kelly how he helped bring order to scientific chaos The Government's new Chief Scientific Adviser is, if the headline writers are to be believed, about to bring chaos to the...
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Primate suspect
The sexual appetites of the sacred monkeys of India brought feminism and fame to oil heiress Sarah Hrdy. Lucy Hodges profiles her When Sarah Hrdy set out as a postgraduate student to study the sacred...
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Evolution of Dan
Daniel Dennett has a hit list of those he thinks are obstructing the march of evolutionary theory. Aisling Irwin reports Daniel Dennett, philosopher, is swatting flies. Until now he has been content...
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Achilles heel
A generation of classical scholars is emerging who cannot read Latin and Greek in the original. Ilsa Godlovitch talks to traditionalists and modernists The days are long gone since the perfect...
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The long, hot debate
Is global warming the scourge that will kill off our planet or is it a myth? Ayala Ochert assesses the climate of opinion (left) while Fred Singer argues that we need to collect more scientific...
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Open windows for job opportunities?
What is happening to equal opportunities in our academic community? A post- doctoral temporary lecturer, having carried the department's teaching load for a year, was not even shortlisted for the...
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Don's Diary
SATURDAY. Off to Warsaw for the Fifth World Congress of Central and East European Studies. Congresses I-IV, we recall as we fly past Berlin, included in their title that outdated word - "Soviet"....
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Research with a use
The Foundation for Research Development, a South African body funded by the government, held a symposium recently to ponder "the role of university research in South Africa amid uncertainties of...
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High street gene shop
Rifat Malik (THES, September 8), in writing on uses of DNA technology has entirely misinterpreted the background and aim of the proposed gene shop on the high street, mentioned in her article. First...
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Echo of the past
They say if you live long enough history repeats itself. Well I have not lived very long but the current debate on national standards for degrees reminds me of something . . . Did I hear someone...
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The age of reasoning
Dialogue is essential for progress of the vivisection debate, writes Kenneth Boyd Suppose you have been transported to an ideal realm where you are deprived of all memory of what you were in this...
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Scottish college to fight its own battle
The aptly-named Newbattle Abbey College is to re-open yet again - but why is it without a grant? Vi Hughes asks In a step of great significance for the future of adult education in Scotland,...
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Studentships maintained
In your article (THES, September 15) on the demand for MRes you imply that the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council has funded the new MRes courses by decreasing PhD studentships....
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Democratisation in troubled Durban
The University of Durban-Westville (THES, September 8) has had the exceptional experience of almost simultaneous "democratisation" (release from Nationalist control) and "Africanisation" (greatly...