In submitting this in an essay on how she spent her holidays, a teenager sparked a furore about literacy. But does texting really harm language and learning? asks Michael North The text in the...
Schoolchildren are not the only ones to use text in essays. As Jason Garner testifies, students often resort to finishing their exams with it - bad news for the old farts who must mark them Essay...
Kicking off a series on how concentration of funding threatens innovative research, Olga Wojtas reports on a world-class Scottish entrepreneurial computer software unit "Ever wondered what would...
Some researchers fear that the environmental lobby is turning away from scientific balance to push an anti-capitalist agenda by 'scaring the hell out' of people. Chris Bunting investigates Stephen...
I am not surprised at the correlation between research assessment exercise and Quality Assurance Agency scores. A department with above-average research funding is likely to have relatively more "...
While I am sympathetic to further education principals' frustration that universities might hijack foundation degrees rather than work in partnership ("FE chiefs air alarm over new degrees", THES ,...
Further education colleges are right to be concerned that higher education institutions will go it alone on foundation degrees. The Hefce consultation on teaching funding proposes that foundation...
Sir Harry Kroto believes the war against Iraq was illegal (Opinion, THES , September 12). This judgement is highly disputed among specialists in international law. Experts disagree, as did the...
Sir Harry Kroto is clearly against action that removed from power a tyrant who murdered, raped and mutilated thousands of his own people. Kroto claims to "espouse free thinking and have no mystical...
I was astonished by Sir Harry Kroto's view of Tony Blair and Iraq. Now we have the solution to the dilemmas of modern statecraft: listen to reasonable people. I am sure the prime minister is kicking...
Why do we persist with the expensive, time-consuming and blunt instrument of the research assessment exercise in subjects that have research councils ("Break up RAE scam", THES , September 12)? When...
How disappointing that you call postdoctoral researchers "students" ("Get a life? Not with our hours", THES , August 22). They are highly qualified professionals, many world experts in their fields....
For once, I am not sympathetic to Laurie Taylor's view of third-class degrees ( THES , September 12). At a college that no longer exists, we had the category of "Honourable Third" - some determined...
Peter Brown, secretary of the British Academy, writes that "all research funds are awarded in open competition" (Letters, THES , September 12). If he checks the BA's regulations, he will see that...
Just for the record: Fabrice Virgili - the author of Shorn Women: Gender and Punishment in Liberation France , which was reviewed by Richard Parish (Books, THES , September 5) - is a bloke. Jane...