Infinite regression
Yes, Fred Inglis’ poignant lament, rehearsing the lost moral and social solidarities of yesteryear, needed to be said (“The retention of tradition”, 14 March). Anyone who lived through those years -...
Yes, Fred Inglis’ poignant lament, rehearsing the lost moral and social solidarities of yesteryear, needed to be said (“The retention of tradition”, 14 March). Anyone who lived through those years -...
Your news article, “UK union fans flames as Phoenix feels heat of probation threat” (14 March), reports the difficulties that Apollo Group, owner of BPP University College, is experiencing with US...
Prime Minister David Cameron’s robust defence of the inclusion of international students in the Office for National Statistics’ net migration data is highly indicative of the government’s need to...
The 30 per cent advantage in terms of chances of entry to Oxbridge that an October birthdate confers over and above a July one is more to do with the timing of the school year than whether you are a...
If Graham Gibbs is right that class contact hours are less important than independent study hours (“Watched clocks and scholarly toil”, Teaching intelligence, 14 March), then higher education...
I have just searched the Google Play Store for a THE app and the top suggestion was Potty Time (which includes eight new ways to celebrate your child’s potty training successes).I’m still teasing out...

A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

Stephen Wade on the accurate contemporary science behind the Holmesian investigations

Kevin Fox Gotham on the negative consequences of privatised disaster services and aid work

Sue Norton on the difficult days ahead for Ireland’s academy as bureaucracy and consumerisation seem set to increase

Catherine Clinton on a creative and contextual analysis of the visual art of enslaved blacks

Ivor Gaber on what motivates Rupert Murdoch


Scholars tired of ‘constant’ data requests. Frances Mechan Schmidt writes

Master of Trinity says technology transfer offices can be more hindrance than help