Change holes, not pegs to widen access
I do hope that your editorial is wrong and that we will not have to endure another decade of the argument about getting more state school pupils into so-called “top” universities, as I am fed up with...
I do hope that your editorial is wrong and that we will not have to endure another decade of the argument about getting more state school pupils into so-called “top” universities, as I am fed up with...
You recently cited figures showing that about one in 10 of Bath Spa University’s professors is female (“Gender gap still yawns among professoriate”, News, 13 June). It is of the nature of these...
As a full-time academic who is a wheelchair user living with multiple sclerosis, discrimination is a fact of life. Unlike my colleagues I do not have a choice over how I get to work: public transport...
On BBC Radio 4’s Today programme recently, Harvard University psychologist Steven Pinker claimed that the world is retreating from violence and cruelty. According to the good professor, it seems we...
I can confirm for Richard Hoyle that the journal Theatre Notebook is run on such “old-fashioned lines that the editors give their time for nothing”, or at least nothing pecuniary (“Pipe-dream...
I was surprised to see the eponymous character from Seth MacFarlane’s Ted appear in the illustration for John Kaag’s “Teething troubles” (Opinion, 13 June). I’m not sure that the drug-smoking, hard-...


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