Winston Churchill famously once said that history would be kind to him because he would write the history. His six-volume work The Second World War is thus portrayed not as his autobiography, but as...
Matthew Reisz talks to Stanley Wells, doyen of Shakespearean editorial scholarship, about his lifetime commitment to the playwright and his new book on romance and the 'beast with two backs'
ARTS AND DESIGN- The Lantern Tower of Westminster Abbey, 1060-2010: Reconstructing its History and ArchitectureBy Warwick Rodwell, visiting professor in the department of archaeology, University of...
My dislike of Piled Higher and Deeper predates its appearance in THE, and further exposure has done nothing to alter my opinion.The cartoon on 20 May, "How grad school is just like kindergarten",...
In "Braving the elements" (20 May), Barbara Oakley forcefully describes the Portuguese neurologist and diplomat Antonio Egas Moniz as "spearheading" the use of frontal lobotomy. However, his method...
We read that Francisco Ayala "refutes the idea that there is any contradiction between science and religion" (The Week in Higher Education, 13 May). I think you'll find that he denies, not refutes,...
I would like to respond to the letter from Richard Shearman of the Engineering Council ("Open to suggestions", 13 May).Readers may remember that Shearman took issue with my comments on the role of...
I am always dismayed when I see authorities dumbing down the academic profession. Your article "Oxford report: goodbye readers, hello merit pay" (13 May) covered Oxford's efforts to abolish the post...
Last week's article on Rosemary Deem's call for a new qualification for research administrators adds to an important debate ("Managers must be qualified to herd the academic cats", 20 May).Management...
The academy's silence following your publication of two articles on Peter Duesberg ("Unconventional thinkers or recklessly dangerous minds?" and "Without prejudice", 6 May) is disappointing but not...
While berating scholars for their abuse of statistics, your article "Not so good with numbers" (6 May) was illustrated with a photograph of a researcher jotting down his results and thinking: "I'll...
Your leader about forcing academics into open-plan offices concentrates on the problems such arrangements cause for the health and well-being of staff ("Mavericks won't be corralled", 13 May).I have...
The man whose team pioneered the imaging-chip technology that put cameras in mobile phones has died.Peter Denyer was born in Sussex on April 1953 and studied electronics at Loughborough University....
Candidates bidding to become the professor of poetry at the University of Oxford have made their pitches for election in a series of online statements. The contenders, including Oxford alumnus and...
Authors: Ralph Fevre and Angus BancroftEdition: FirstPublisher: Palgrave MacmillanPages: 296Price: £14.99ISBN 9780230232464The authors fancy this book as the sociological equivalent of Sophie's World...