Caveats from the great exercise
YOUR informative analysis of last year's research assessment exercise (THES, December 20) lacked a breakdown in the analysis of medical subjects, especially hospital-based clinical subjects. A...
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Caveats from the great exercise
THE NEGATIVE comments on nursing research in your editorial undermine the real progress that is being made in this area from a historically low base. Comparing the 1992 and 1996 assessments, the...
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Caveats from the great exercise
A LITTLE caution is required against the rhetoric of "improved" research in United Kingdom universities. It should be remembered that the RAE panels were asked to take a prospective view of the...
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Caveats from the great exercise
IMAGINE two university departments, each with six research active staff. The first contains three researchers of international excellence, and three who are young and full of promise. The second...
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Caveats from the great exercise
YOUR OPINION piece about the RAE entitled "Open, improving and accountable" stated: "But it is equally plausible that the great research race has got more people out of bed earlier and in front of...
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Experts follow gun trail
ACADEMICS at Leicester University are warning that the Government may be jumping the gun on firearms legislation. While the House of Lords is considering amendments to gun laws in the wake of the...
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Brits add voice to life on Mars claim
FIVE months after Nasa scientists stunned the world with supposed evidence of past life on Mars, British microbiologists have discovered features on a chip of Martian meteorite that add weight to...
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Search for clue to sale fever
IT'S THAT time of year again: people are flocking to shops hoping to snap up a few of the many bargains promised in the New Year sales. But when is a bargain really a bargain? "Very occasionally,"...
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Liberty, neutrality, equity
Justice as Impartiality
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The brutal test of civilisation
Inhuman States
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Speaking Volumes: Edmund Leach's Political Systems of Highland Burma
On Edmund Leach's Political Systems of Highland Burma. What is the most influential book I have ever read? No contest: it has to be Edmund Leach's Political Systems of Highland Burma. My copy is the...
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Substantial fare from meagre sources
The New Cambridge Medieval History
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Israel's lost PM
Moshe Sharett - Ben-Gurion's Spy
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First impressions
This week's First Impressions comes from a novel published under a pseudonym a few weeks before the author's suicide: "It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and...
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Real world, virtual risk
Against the Gods