It's not all fun and sun on threatened coastal isles
A Celebration of the World's Barrier Islands
A Celebration of the World's Barrier Islands
There is an interesting juxtaposition in Kieron O'Hara's "Conflict overrules consensus" and Alan Smithers' "Set free to do the job" (Soapbox, June 25). Both argue that outside pressures are harming...
There is a certain ironic symmetry in Smithers' complaint that university education departments are being forced to act as if they are doing research in physics. Our new academic staff are made to...
We have just survived exam time again. Lecturers waded through mountains of scripts, wielding their red pens in despair or, occasionally, delight. But, for them, grading exams and assignments is no...
In your article "Review by peers 'good for science''' (News, June 25), the following appears: "In 1998, self-employed researcher Roger Coghill released research straight to the media saying that the...
Many of your readers will have an old mobile phone or printer cartridge tucked away in a drawer at home or at work. These unwanted items can benefit cancer research. Old mobiles and printer...
The Declaration of Helsinki says that "it is unethical to conduct research which is badly planned and poorly executed". Where scientific project management is concerned, and as shown by Richard...
Karen Gold and David Bell get too bogged down in whether nationalism is a deep structural or a modern-day phenomenon (Features, June 25). They underplay its role as a political project, its success...
Plagiarism is commonly combated by using different assessment methods. My department, for instance, combines examinations with assessment of coursework exercises and oral presentations and the use of...
I am amazed at the stupidity of anti-vivisectionists, exemplified by Marlene Thomson's letter (July 2). How does she think so much progress has been made in medical science in the past century -...
After long being annoyed at being regarded as a "human resource" by our former personnel office, I now find that our university library has a director of customer services and that, at last, I have...
None of the judges for your Humanities and Social Sciences Writing prize is a social scientist. Perhaps it's all about good writing: "Now in it's (sic) third year, (it) aims to encourage writers of...
" Advice is urgently needed on how to write academic CVs " - Letter in Times Higher , July 2. Darling, finished your CV for that De Montfort job? I'm a bit stuck on page one. GIVE FULL NAME. That's...
When you run a great research university, you also run risks - as Harvard University has found to its cost. Elite but cash-strapped universities such as Oxford, Cambridge, University College London...
After all the histrionics of last winter and spring, the Higher Education Bill became an Act with barely a whimper. Even the Lords' rebellions produced only a gap year concession that will cost the...