Critics miss graduate review point
THE TIME has come for me to be "rested" from the slot in the Times Higher Education Supplement to which I have become rather attached over the past few years. It is funny how sitting down on a Sunday...
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Tomsk touts for partners
IN THE half-light of an early November morning, frost in the air and ice on the ground, a lot of places would have some claim to beauty. Tomsk, in Siberia, looks good at any time. The main street is...
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How bacteria grew to love baseball
Stephen Jay Gould emphasises diversity and rejects the idea that evolution means progress. Just don't call him a postmodernist, writes David King. A small anecdote says a lot about Stephen Jay Gould...
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Tribal wars engulf Zaire
As desperate refugee columns criss-cross central Africa, John Beya shows how the conflict arose and became entwined with Zairean President Mobutu's oppressive regime. We ask academics if the crisis...
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If you want peace, prepare for peace
The threat of extinction that hangs over us can only be removed by abolishing war. This may take a very long time but it will never happen unless we make a start, insists Joseph Rotblat. Whatever...
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Jobs docked
Thirteen teaching and seven support staff jobs could go at Greenwich University amid union claims that plans to rationalise the university's property portfolio, including moving departments into the...
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Cross word
Coincidence or covert support? Clue 19 down in The Times crossword on Tuesday November 19, the AUT Day of Action, was "University professors, discontented, press for a rise" (7 letters). Answer :...
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Automatic slides
The Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals and the Design and Artists Copyright Society have drawn up a new agreement allowing automatic copyright clearance for slides of artists' works...
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Leeds courses axed
LEEDS Metropolitan University is planning to restructure 20 courses, axing three. Intake to all chemistry courses could stop from next year. BA hons courses in consumer services management and in...
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Culture clubber
A challenge to all cultural studies academics with a taste for revenge. New York University physicist Alan Sokal, who successfully hoaxed a journal in the field earlier this year, has joined the...
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Internet
Every week THESIS, The THES Internet Service, provides a guide to the news, features, reviews and advertisements in the newspaper, plus a full list of institutions in British further and higher...
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A civil war over wages
Slavery, Capitalism and Politics in the Antebellum Republic, Volume I
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Apartheid in America
Classifying By Race - Twice the Work of Free Labor
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A game without odds
Life's Grandeur
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Foibles of a French legend
Lyautey and the French Conquest of Morocco