The relativity of theory
The arguments in "Sacred cows' herd instinct" (THES, July 21) were not helped by those touches of sensationalism. The author was a "former adherent" (addict? cult follower?) and remained "anonymous...
The arguments in "Sacred cows' herd instinct" (THES, July 21) were not helped by those touches of sensationalism. The author was a "former adherent" (addict? cult follower?) and remained "anonymous...
Though I have done the state some service (and they know't), a deep and vociferous scepticism greeted your announcement (THES, July 21) of my having been awarded an honorary degree. The DLitt...
In a letter to the (THES, July 14) Professor Pointon used my article about dyslexia and students' undertaking of initial teacher education to advertise his work and to make some empirical assertions...
Murray Lee Eiland looks at a case of campus consumer fraud with grade A and B rewards given for C and D work One of the explanations offered for the United States's remarkably durable economic...
John Insley is wrong to accuse me of poetic licence (THES, August 4). The person I saw in a bar in the Orange Free State, South Africa (THES, July 4) was wearing the insignia of the Iron Guard of...
French scientist Harry Bernas gives reasons for opposing the Mururoa nuclear tests The main reason French president Jacques Chirac gave for resuming nuclear tests in the Pacific during the coming...
Medicine. As we approach the next millennium, it is good to review the challenges it will bring for research, even though all good scientists know perfectly well that no discontinuities are to be...
An apparently hoax review of a satirical South African work, published in the highly respected and very serious York University-based Journal of Southern African Studies, is causing great hilarity in...
The Hong Kong government's top education advisers have cancelled an official visit to China, following Beijing's decision to refuse entry to one of the delegation. The chairwoman of the territory's...
Private donations to United States colleges and universities - from former students, companies and rich philanthropists - have registered their sharpest annual gain in seven years, according to the...
The University of British Columbia, Canada's third-largest university, has become the first to close a programme for reasons of racial and sexual bias. The move follows the release of a 177-page...
Architecture students from Greenwich University helping to shape plans for the future urban regeneration of Zagreb are just miles from frontline trenches where Croatian forces are attacking Serb-...
France has cancelled plans for a "joker" year, which would have allowed undergraduates to keep their grant for one repeat year. The second-chance grant was one of the key measures resulting from a...
A strike by state university lecturers and researchers that wreaked havoc with exams in Portugal last month is threatening to spill over into the next academic year. The three-week strike over...
A group of London University medical students is preparing for seven weeks of sun, sea and sand flies in a bid to help combat a potentially fatal parasitic disease. The eight students from the Royal...