One weekday evening in the mid-1880s, a crowd assembled in the Surrey Rooms on Blackfriars Road, South London. One man in attendance was a "tall, slight, dreamy-faced young man", another a "stout,...
Julian Evans lauds the logic in an analysis of how science should be funded in the UK
Tony Collins, a leading authority on rugby league in England, turns his attention to the 15-man game in an account of the social history of English rugby union. This text offers an illuminating...
Maria Graham (nee Dundas, 1785-1842), traveller and author, was, like Charley's Aunt, no ordinary woman. Her reading was omnivorous, encouraged by William Delamotte, the landscape artist, who...
Geography and environmental sciences• Critical Transitions in Nature and SocietyBy Marten Scheffer, professor of environmental sciences, Wageningen UniversityPrinceton University Press, £26.95 ISBN...
Kevin Beurle, a British scientist involved in the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn, has died.He was born in Swansea on 19 January 1956 and attended local schools before gaining a BSc in physics from...
The University of Poppleton made the headlines this week as journalists picked up on research by Dr Ted Thorndike of our Department of Psychology showing how valuable clues to an individual's...
On what basis can anyone expect to build a "relationship of trust between teacher and student" if students are dismissed as "not in a position to distinguish" good education from bad, and can only...
Goethe is a tricky one on whom to build a case for reform ("Goethe's the guy v-c goes to for advice on reform", 4 June). Over a long life he moved from the revolutionary position of his "Sturm und...
Goethe as a new guide for universities? Hasn't academia always been about Faustian pacts, the relationship between sorcerers and apprentices ... and the occasional meander around a Mediterranean...
Steve Fuller is outraged to find that his forth-coming book, The Sociology of Intellectual Life, will be made available only in hardback and at £60 a copy ("No soft (cover) option 'outrages' author...
I enjoyed the excellent article on the Royal Geographical Society debate very much ("'Think big' campaign splits geographers", 4 June).The fundamental point is that the society has lost balance and...
We would like to clarify some points in your article "Students' campaigns take some ugly turns" (4 June). The publication A Student's Guide to Assessment was written by University of Central...
I found your analysis of "conspiracy theories" utterly dispiriting ("They would say that ..." 4 June). Of course there are myriad conspiracy theories, a large percentage of which can be shown to be...
The fanciful speculation about the University and College Union ballot is entertaining ("Lack of support led to dropped ballot", 4 June). It is regrettable, however, that your secretive informer is...