Why two parents are not a panacea
Paul Ormerod and Robert Rowthorn have some good ideas about stabilising the family through encouraging marriage and avoiding divorce. Preventing unsuitable marriages in the first place might go a...
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Why two parents are not a panacea
While your article (THES, August 22) gave examples of successful job-sharing of academic positions, these cannot provide the whole answer to the problems of combining careers and families. There are...
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Learning to serve up the cake
OUTSIDE Durban there are two education campuses within a few hundred yards of each other. Mangosuthu Technikon swarmed with students at the beginning of the winter semester: at the Umlazi campus of...
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Several steps ahead for the union dues
I WILL always remember the morning that Leon Brittan resigned from the Cabinet over the Westland affair. It was a marvellous occasion ripe with drama and intrigue. The great, the good and the bag...
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Don's Diary
Monday Academic researchers are often caricatured as crotchety old men hidden in ivory towers, from which only rarely do they descend to walk among mere mortals. Ten days ago when press coverage of...
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Fighting the many enemies
Oxford English Dictionery Additions Series Volume Three - Language is Power
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The black box set ticking
Darwin's Black Box
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More sense down the pub
Connected Knowledge
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Skilful sort of skulduggery
Making Faces
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Canford's welcome relief
From Nineveh to New York
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The critics who desire no blood not pain
The Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche
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Reality only as we know it
Confessions of a Philosopher
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First Impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, greets the opening of the Referendum season with a cult work by a writer who, in spite...
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Chairs
Lancaster University Paul Heelas, author of the New Age Movement, has been appointed to a personal chair in religion and modernity. University of Oxford Richard Brent, professor of computing sciences...
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Sir Ron's forgotten legion
Postgraduate students face a bleak, debt-ridden future after being overlooked by the Dearing committee, argues Ewan Gillon Sir Ron Dearing's review has provided us with a blueprint for higher...