Tongue-tied birds could help stutterers
The discovery of stuttering song birds by a team of scientists has raised the prospect of new drugs and therapies to tackle the speech affliction in humans. David Rosenfield, a researcher at the...
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Inertia of physics in Nobels
Physicists lag behind other British academics in winning Nobel prizes. It is 22 years since a British scientist won the Nobel prize for physics. In economics and medicine, it is three and six years...
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Safety comes first
Your report "University safety record panned" (THES, October 1) about concerns over safety in universities and research institutions rightly says that the University of Cambridge takes health and...
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Users anonymous
It is astonishing that the research assessment exercise panel for French "could not think of anyone" to represent users on the panel ("Subject panels in need of 'users' to get funding", THES, October...
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Real women, real facts
I was fascinated by Natalie Fenton's account of why performance-related pay is bad for women ("Women - don't buy this line", THES, October 1). For example, I never knew that "the industrialisation of...
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Reason and response
In Gary Day's review of my Critique of Postcolonial Reason ("Muffling the voice of the Other", THES, August 6), Day claims that "Spivak's interest I is in how satiI was, (as) she argues, a form of...
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Pedagogic points
Stephen Rowland and Alan Jenkins (Teaching, THES, October 1) are rightly concerned about the status of research into teaching and learning in higher education. One intriguing solution to raising the...
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Pedagogic points
I was amazed to see that under the extraordinary headline "Confusion over whether teaching itself should count towards the RAE" (THES, October 1) appeared an article written by myself. I would never...
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Unwelcome visitor
Attempts to justify the visitor's role (Letters, THES, October 1) miss the point. There are just two crucial issues. Through an accident of history, students are subject to different legal paths at...
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On the streets
(Photograph) - On the streets: students from Oxford and elsewhere protested on Sunday against tuition fees and to demand the restoration of grants. Meanwhile one in seven students who applied for...
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Star turn
Family violence takes place behind closed doors. Alison Utley listens to a lecturer who makes it a community concern "I haven't told them what today's subject is," says Julie Pryke as we wait for the...
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Too many cuts
The otherwise accurate, balanced report on the proposed consolidation of the Institute of Arable Crops Research ("Final harvest at Long Ashton", THES, October 1) includes one serious piece of...
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Storm in a test tube
Natural disasters claim half a million lives every decade. Julian Hunt and Brian Lee explain how science saves lives. ABBC TV presenter covering Hurricane Floyd's arrival on the United States east...
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Clergyman's formula predicts Hollywood hits
The ideas of an 18th-century English clergyman have been used by two management scientists to forecast the success of new movies with unprecedented accuracy. Two American experts have turned to the...
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Astronomers set sights on Mercury and Venus
Outline proposals for two audacious interplanetary missions to recover rock and soil samples from Mercury and Venus have been drawn up for the European Space Agency. The studies, which were unveiled...