A planetary theory to rival plate tectonics
James Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis about earth's evolution must be reassessed by scientists, argues Nick Petford. Gaia James Lovelock's provocative theory of the earth is back on the agenda with the...
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Don's Diary
Sunday. To church with family (Enid, four, and James, two) as usual. Support for coming week gleaned from hymn "Forth in thy name O Lord I go, my daily labours to pursue". Today's daily labours...
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Minister queries growth push
Eric Forth, the new higher education minister, has called into question assumptions by university heads and captains of industry that renewed growth in higher education is needed. A Government...
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Rebel MP lost faith over threat to quality
Alan Howarth, who crossed the floor of the Commons to join Labour this week, is the second ex-further and higher education minister to say his disillusionment with Conservative politics was linked to...
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Chicago's Nobel economy boom
Chicago University's long-running success in producing Nobel laureates continued this week with the award going to Robert Lucas for his theory dealing with the "rational expectations" that underpin...
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A class sister act
American feminist icon bell hooks talks to Sian Griffiths about race, gender and her rise from humble Kentucky roots. I have borne five children and I seen 'em mos all sold off into slavery, and when...
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A tongue-tied time warp
British foreign language learning policy lags behind the rest of Europe and must be updated, argues Robert Clark. As I took plane to Stockholm for the European Commission's conference on "Language...
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Did Churchill kill Il Duce?
An Italian historian claims that Churchill had a wartime correspondence with Mussolini and urged his death to cover it up. Paul Bompard sifts the evidence. Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was shot...
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Old scripts, new insights
Are hieroglyphs making a comeback? Andrew Robinson examines ancient and modern writing. Writing is among the greatest inventions of human history. Yet it is a skill most writers take for granted. We...
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Fragile figure in eye of storm
Retired Harvard professor Annemarie Schimmel tells Jennie Brookman why she defended Islamic fury against Salman Rushdie. Annemarie Schimmel seems an unlikely person to have caused the biggest...
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Vive la difference
John Gray argues for new ways of political thinking that address the deep cultural diversity of the age and replace the bankrupt ideologies, both Left and Right, of the past. The public cultures of...
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Admission of an A-level problem
It has been a long hard summer in the recruitment office. The hostile media reports made a complex task even more complicated and so much ill-informed comment has been damaging. How much so will...
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Gender deficit and tradition
Discovering why girls outperform boys at school but fail to do as well at university requires five years' detailed study, argues Gillian Sutherland. People seem surprised that degree results show the...
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Case for pay body
The article "Pay structure delayed" (THES, October 6) clearly indicates the wide diversity of views in the universities and colleges regarding the necessary restructuring of negotiating bodies in...
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Rocked foundation
Your report "Building Collapse" (THES, September 22) which relates to the closure of the BSc (Hons) construction economics degree at Southampton Institute is inaccurate. There were 36 students...