Money, magic and miracles
The Closing of the Western Mind
The Closing of the Western Mind
Varieties of Religion Today
So nearly a quarter of postgraduates feel that a PhD in the arts and humanities has failed to fulfil their career aspirations (News, THES , December 6)? Is the bottle half full or half empty? More...
Alison Richard will not be Cambridge's first female vice-chancellor ("Steely veteran with a cold eye on the bottom line", THES , December 6). Dame Rosemary Murray holds that distinction (1975-77)....
I read half the report on sports minister Richard Caborn's criticism of elitism in sports science ("Coaches slated for failing the team", THES , November 29) as I walked to lecture sports-science...
Sports scientists' defensiveness about their intellectual credentials is clear from your accusation that my department is undermining sport psychology's academic profile by introducing a joint...
Chris Cooper (Letters, THES , December 6) tells us that he teaches and researches in pure biochemistry. I am sure we would all like to know what "pure biochemistry" is. Could there be an "impure...
We are writing in support of Mona Baker, who is under investigation by the University of Manchester Institute for Science and Technology for removing two Israeli members from the editorial board of a...
John Sutherland is too cautious: surely we could downsize his proposal for a one-year undergraduate degree to six months ("Why I, THES , December 6). After all, 360 modular credit hours will,...
One has to sympathise with the teaching-quality problems faced by Graham Gibbs' daughters at their research university ("Research strategy limits the teaching of students", THES , November 29). One...
Graham Gibbs' daughters' experience of late and little feedback may be because of the large number of students and a tight turnaround time. How can coursework increase students' learning experience...
Sean McGough is right to highlight the plight of postgraduate students ("Call to boost pay for postgrad teachers", THES , November 29). But there is hope. Some institutions have moved to fractional...
Michael Rennie, writing from a department where just one in five academic staff is female, believes that higher salaries and time will solve gender imbalance in science (Letters, THES , December 6)....
Michael Rennie criticises the Greenfield report recommendations on women in science for increasing "competition for science jobs between the sexes". Does he prefer less competition? That has led to...
It is wishful thinking to suppose society will become "gender blind" over time. Look at the trends, despite 47 per cent of bioscience graduates in 1970 being female, only 9 per cent have since...