What about hi-flier?
Temperatures in Guildford rose to extremes when your travel and tourism subject focus omitted to mention the pioneering and world-class work of the University of Surrey ("Rise in degrees as things...
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Beware plagiarism
Academics should protect themselves against deliberate or inadvertent copying of their work ("Pondering the plagiarism plague"; "Academic claims Seoul credit for others' work", THES , August 1). This...
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Don't stifle debate 1
Michael Rutter's review of Frank Mieles' Conversations with Arthur Jensen is suitably ambivalent (Books, THES , August 8). Rutter has previously suggested that some tendencies, including criminal,...
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Don't stifle debate 2
In discussing the melanic form of the peppered moth, Michael Majerus does little to support his claim that "Darwinian evolution is fact" (Soapbox, THES , August 8). Rather than present "the most...
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Size matters
So frescoes bombed in 1944 were shattered into pieces "the smallest the size of a farthing" ("Italian scientists to piece together bomb-damaged church frescoes", THES , August 15). Now, how small...
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Leather lather
Charles Pasternack is wrong - there are no professors of leather technology in the UK or Europe, and I should know (Features, THES , August 8). But the world's leading School of Leather Technology is...
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Threat taken seriously
According to Lawrence Cohen ("How to make a campus a safer haven", THES , August 15), Natfhe believes that research carried out for the Nuffield Foundation "exaggerate(s) the threat of violence...
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Junk unfair RAE
The latest working of the research funding formula will further reward departments that have already struck lucky thanks to an unbalanced system ("Rethink doubles 6* winners", THES , August 15). The...
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Laurie Taylor
Ploumanack BRITTANY Hello Maureen! Yes, it's Julie Samson. Bet you didn't expect to hear from me so soon after degree day! Both mum and dad came in the end and dad said it was one of the proudest...
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Leader: Mickey Mouse is a complex beast
At long last someone has had the courage to identify some "Mickey Mouse" courses. It might have been stretching a point to describe the Conservatives' list of unlikely sounding degrees as research,...
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Leader: A-level standards vary
A week on from results day, arguments are still raging about whether some A levels are easier than others. Although ministers apparently feel honour-bound to insist that they are all equally...
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Today's news
Academy accused of favouring its fellows The government is investigating allegations of "old-boy favouritism" at the British Academy after a storm of controversy over its £2 million centenary...
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Today's news
Directors snub worthless degrees A survey on student debt reveals that a fifth of company finance directors believe that university degrees are not worth their cost to students. They said that '...
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Latest research news
New evidence links virus with breast cancer New evidence for a link between a virus and human breast cancer has been revealed in a series of studies by Australian researchers. The virus, dubbed...
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Today's news
Top law courses plan entrance exam The move by universities to sideline A levels gathered pace yesterday as tutors drew up plans for a national test to admit students to law courses. (Times) Call for...