Love's labours found?
Can a long overlooked but mediocre poem be the work of the Bard? Tim Cornwell reports on the latest Shakespearean row. The Usual Suspects Since time, and his predestinated end, Abridged the circuit...
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Is there anyone out there?
It's very unlikely, says Arnold Wolfendale. When lecturing on the search for extra-terrestrial life and the future of life on earth, I usually start by asking "how many of you believe that there is...
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The sleep of reason ... is a female nightmare
* There are 44 million "missing women" in China alone, 36.9 million in India. * In India the "missing women" comprise 9.5 per cent of the number of actual women, in Pakistan 12.9 per cent * When only...
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Genetic screening
Dorothy Nelkin and Susan Lindee look at how genetic determinism in the media fosters acceptance of controlling reproduction for a common good. When in 1991, CBS commentator Andy Rooney said on...
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The sleep of reason...
Feminists have denounced liberalism for being too individualistic, too abstract and obsessed with reason. But Martha Nussbaum argues that where you mistrust the habits of prejudice, there you have...
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Fair's fair in a battle for votes
The past month has seen two bitter rows about education. The most prominent, the Battle of St Olave's, was a heady cocktail of selection in schools with a gripping subplot about hypocrisy and about...
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Don's Diary
FRIDAY. All-night technical preparations in London for our touring student production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, which we are taking to the West Bank and Gaza. Unsettling arrival in Israel:...
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Fertile fields of ideas
Over the past decades, research into higher education has developed from a small collection of studies with a narrow pedagogical orientation into a more comprehensive field encompassing a large...
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When alpha is a non-starter
Between 1983 and 1985 I held an Economic and Social Research Council project grant - the first that I had ever applied for. Since that time my research has been funded by a variety of European...
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Glass ceiling? More like a brick wall
Robin Dunbar's arguments (Grey natter, THES, January 26), like those of Geoff Miller whom he cites, are persuasive. But they have a blindspot with regard to their implications for women, especially...
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Whistle blown on Russell referees
Just before Christmas a colleague from another university asked me to be one of his nominated referees in his application for promotion. Nothing unusual in this, I have acted in such a capacity on...
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Test bed of truly Euro science
Martin Daunton appears to have rewritten a bit of history in his glowing review of The origins of the Modern State in Europe, 13th to 18th centuries: economic systems and state finance edited by...
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Glass ceiling? More like a brick wall
Having failed in three attempts at promotion in the last 12 months (one internal and two external) I was arrested by the picture of the new honorary doctor of civil law, Howard Phelps, on the...
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Suffering students hit again
In proposing to introduce tuition fees, university bosses are passing on Government cuts to those least able to afford them - students. Students are already suffering, under-achieving and dropping...
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Benefits when east meets west
I am one of the many western environmental "experts" who has "jetted in" to Romania and Hungary in recent years. I share the concerns of colleagues in central and eastern Europe and the United...