Once upon a time the City couldn't get enough of those promising offspring of campus research - biotechnology companies. Now their stocks have taken a dive. James Norman explains why such a...
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The Oxford Companion to Irish History
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In the mid-1990s, geneticist Dean Hamer's claim to have isolated a "gay gene" earned world headlines. Now Hamer, chief of gene structure and regulation at the United States National Cancer Institute...
According to sociologist Frank Furedi at the University of Kent, the history of racism in the 20th century can best be described as "a silent war". His new book provides a critical account of the...
Domenico Pacitti's experience is emblematic of the disease that afflicts Italian universities. Merit has no place in a feudal patriarchy poorly disguised as a modern liberal democracy. Education...
DO THE the Italian university authorities really think that by decentralising the selection procedure (concorsi) for academic posts in their country the entire system's endemic nepotism will be "...
THANK you for airing the Sokal debate (THES, October 10 and July 10), but it is dispiriting to read the rebuffs. The charge of scientific nonsense in the writings of Lacan, Latour, Kristeva and...
Last week's THES reporting of the government's statement on more investment in higher education managed to be both inaccurate and dispiriting. We will not build a successful future for higher...
Elaine Showalter, president of the Modern Language Association, describes moves to solve the United States jobs crisis in the humanities For most British academics the American "MLA" means the annual...