Mythical questions
Simon Blackburn contemplates a number of "myths" in his article on ten modern myths ("Reality check", 24 April). I mostly agree with Blackburn, especially on the issue of "the myth of the scientist"...
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Spell it out
We all use acronyms to show we are in the in-group. But in the name of sanity, how could you write an entire article about QR without once explaining what QR stands for ("Funding council speaks up...
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Citations - a novel index
Each week as I read Times Higher Education I am careful not to look at the back page until I have dutifully perused the rest of the magazine. Then, having treated myself to The Poppletonian, my eye...
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Brave Oxford
So "Oxford fawned so shamelessly over the Stuarts ..." eh? (Leader, 15 May). Presumably this fawning didn't include the fellows of Magdalen College, who defied James II in 1687-88 in refusing to...
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Sex and the university
Romantic attractions between teacher and student may be as old as pedagogy itself, but now such relationships cause people to worry about abuses of power and litigation. Only half of institutions...
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Mission: Improbable
Computers and lasers are compelling proof that researchers' flights of fancy can pay off, but policymakers prefer to fund work with obvious economic merits. Matthew Reisz asks whether the sky should...
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We know what we like ..
... but our tastes are swayed by price, packaging and other social psychological factors in ways we're often unaware of. Matthew Kieran considers the fragility of aesthetic opinions in the latest in...
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How our ancestors learnt to say: 'There's a bear outside'
The Genesis of Grammar: A Reconstruction. Authors Bernd Heine and Tania Kuteva. Edition First. Publisher Oxford University Press. Pages 418. Price £75.00. ISBN 9780199227761.
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22 May 2008
Erotic pedagogy - Should universities police relationships between staff and students?
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An angry beast that might turn
The Earth is suffering from CO2 overload. Anthony Giddens asks how we can limit climate change
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Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World
So far, seven volumes in this series have appeared: Emma Griffiths's Medea, Carol Dougherty's Prometheus, Ken Dowden's Zeus, Richard Seaford's Dionysus and Lowell Edmunds's Oedipus (all 2006), and...
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Top 10 Academic Bestsellers: Blackwell, London SE1
1. Nursing Practice: Hospital and Home, Third Edition edited by Margaret F. Alexander, Josephine N. Fawcett and Phyllis J. Runciman Churchill Livingstone, £31.99 ISBN 97804430745782. Heritage Tourism...
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Carnal, but strictly kosher
Lynne Segal is not entirely seduced by arguments for the innate naughtiness of God's chosen people
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Jeanie, an 'Army of One': Mrs Nassau Senior, 1828-1877, the First Woman in Whitehall
Jane Senior, who according to Sybil Oldfield was George Eliot's model for Dorothea Brooke, differed from the heroine of Middlemarch in one significant respect. Dorothea has no friends. Especially...
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The Disrespect Agenda or How the Wrong Kind of Niceness is Making us Weak and Unhappy
Respect is one of the buzzwords in contemporary culture. Tony Blair said in May 2005 that he wanted to create a "culture of respect". There are regular calls from all sides for respect to be shown...