Spanners in the works
I have a first from the University of Cambridge and a PhD in engineering from Imperial College London. I am a chartered engineer with 13 years’ industrial experience. I have published widely in peer-...
I have a first from the University of Cambridge and a PhD in engineering from Imperial College London. I am a chartered engineer with 13 years’ industrial experience. I have published widely in peer-...
The attempts by Chibuihem Stanley Amalaha, a postgraduate chemical engineering student at the University of Lagos, to use science to prove that homosexuality is unnatural and wrong are disturbing (...
It is great news that UK-Brazil collaboration is a rapidly growing “special relationship” (News, 3 October). THE’s coverage reported on factors such as funding and citations, but there is another...
Nigel Probert (Letters, 3 October) opposes student feedback on the grounds that the teacher’s intuition is “a natural process more immediate and more valuable than formal feedback”. Sir Karl Popper...
In response to Cary Nelson’s article “Beware: integrity at risk” (19 September): it is academia’s role to carry out impartial and independent research and analysis that provides governments, business...

Move would level playing field for state school applicants


Source: GettyNo exit: for some it’s always angst o’clockIn the wake of allegations from former students that Ralph Miliband’s lectures on politics at the London School of Economics may have amounted...
In your obituary of the distinguished American political scientist Marshall Berman (26 September), it is stated that he wrote an introduction to the latest Penguin edition of Marx’s Communist...

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