The blind worship of maths
Science in the Looking Glass
Science in the Looking Glass
Love, Sex and Tragedy
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel about IQ made into an Oscar-winning film in the flower-power Sixties: "Dr Strauss says I shoud...
Going Critical - Nuclear North Korea: A Debate on Engagement Strategies - North Korea
The Nature of Political Theory
Backfire - A Culture of Conspiracy - American Extremism
The Party's Over
For many months I have been puzzled by the attitude of the Association of University Teachers to Nottingham University's new pay system for academic-related staff. Unlike the other campus unions, the...
Management at Nottingham University repeatedly makes the assertion that "the new pay structure for academic-related staff had been fully consulted on and accepted by 99 per cent of staff". It...
It is clear that Robert Kagan seeks to vindicate the argument in his book Paradise and Power at the same time as distancing himself from the mess that the Bush Administration has got itself into (...
Nancy Rothwell can justify vivisection only by raising irrelevant issues (Columnist, September 17). She says donations to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals normally exceed...
After 31 years' service at what is now London Metropolitan University, I am leaving to join another university. I am proud to have been part of an institution that has played a leading role in...
Fears that students from Northern Ireland will be forced to study outside the province are well founded ("Students demand rise in NI enrolment", September 3). This tendency is likely to worsen if...
Laurie Taylor missed the following statistics in his column (September 17): 57 per cent of students have a part-time job to make ends meet (as do 9 per cent of lecturers); 23 per cent of students...
About 500 of us at the Association for Learning Technology conference last week attended the ceremony for the Higher Education Academy (ALT)/ Times Higher sponsored E-Tutor of the Year Award (News,...