Lost on the paper trail
Tim Birkhead superbly describes the Kafkaesque bureaucracy under which academics toil in our universities today and the open contempt with which management routinely treats us ("Blank faces and...
Tim Birkhead superbly describes the Kafkaesque bureaucracy under which academics toil in our universities today and the open contempt with which management routinely treats us ("Blank faces and...
I am conducting research into the way children are cared for in hospitals. My questionnaire contains innocuous questions such as, "Do you think parents should be involved in decision-making about...
It is unclear whether recent reports of "peer censorship" amount to anything more than "peer criticism", itself an exercise of academic freedom ("Peer pressure curbs language", September 7). Even...
The time has come to pay University and College Union subscriptions for 2007 08. My subscription request outlines, without explanation, different rates for former Association of University Teachers...
I was intrigued by the chastity ring inscribed with "THES" ("Mystique of the virgin", September 21). I assume this is because you represent untainted purity, not impenetrability. Alan Woodley...
Christian Fleck faults the European Research Council on many counts, the main one being the great number of applications and the small ratio of success ("Grant contest proves ill-conceived lottery",...
Ian Marshall suggests that lecturers should avoid "wasting potential research time" by downloading lectures from the internet and reading them out ("It is time we tamed the tyranny of technology",...
Forty years after his death, American protest singer Woody Guthrie still fascinates. Will Kaufman , an academic who doubles as a Guthrie tribute artist, offers his own personal take, while Lee...
For as long as there has been a medical orthodoxy, there have been patients seeking alternatives to it, from mesmerism to homeopathy to reiki. So does that make them gullible, asks Roberta Bivins, or...
Or at least they didn't, says veteran talks organiser Marquard Smith, until a recent event when it all went maddeningly, horribly wrong I often wonder why so little academic research has been...
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