Plea fee
(Photograph) - Plea fee: Former Bar student Cecilia Hulse faces possible legal costs of up to Pounds 100,000 after losing her High Court appeal over a decision by the Council of Legal Education to...
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Newtonian time lord
David Lorimer talks to Nobel prize-winner Ilya Prigogine about introducing the arrow of time into the basic laws of physics. Ilya Prigogine has had a lifelong preoccupation with time. Years ago he...
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Turning battles into bunker hills
Anthony Gross calls on scholars to remember their duty and defend historic battlefields such as Tewkesbury from incursions by housing estates and golf courses. Most of the issues dealt with by the...
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Coercion by the Nile
Muhammad Mahmoud reports on the ordeal of an academic who has fallen foul of Egypt's Islamic law. Academic freedom and freedom of expression were dealt a severe blow two weeks ago in Egypt when an...
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Universal picture
Martin Rees describes how cosmologists aim to set our solar system in a grand evolutionary scheme by describing a cosmic history probably beginning with a'big bang'. Whilst this planet has been...
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Cupitt's measure
Gerard Kelly meets priest-philosopher Don Cupitt, a radical who discomforts the faithful. Don Cupitt, priest and philosopher of religion at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, is not complimentary about the...
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Mothers of reinvention
We live in a world characterised by rapid change. We all know that. One response is to recognise that learning has to form an integral part of our lives if we wish to avoid being shipped on to the...
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Don's Diary
THURSDAY. "Bore Da. Bwrdd Yr Iaith Gymraeg. Welsh Language Board." Even though I have heard these words on several occasions, I am taken aback since it is unusual to hear anything other than English...
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Researchers with contract to fulfill
Universities and colleges are now legally obliged to consult both recognised unions and the individual employees concerned over every redundancy, even if it is the normal termination of a fixed-term...
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Ideas behind the launch of morale-saving scientists
In your "News in Brief" item (THES, June 16) you state that the Labour Party has launched an initiative - Scientists for Labour (SfL). This is not an entirely accurate description of the genesis of...
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Correct English
I write to correct a factual error in Claire Sanders' article, "Funders act on English report" (THES, June 16). The English Association, although it has a large individual membership in schools and...
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Bishop's biology
Professor Ingold appears to have missed the logic of his argument that Darwin was not a "Darwinist" and in consequence repeats the error that Bishop Wilberforce put forward a case based solely on...
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Lese we forget
Your headline last week, "Southampton bids for university status", is a clear case of lese-majeste. On April 29 1952 Her Majesty The Queen granted a charter, and Article 1 of this charter states: "...
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Languages of common-sense
Nick Tate (THES, May 19) and Richard Gaskin (THES letters, June 16) call for more Latin in schools. Richard Gaskin offers the best reason for learning Latin, which is to produce scholars capable of...
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Exams with a ten-minute rule
Gavin Fairbairn questions whether dyslexic students should be admitted to primary teacher training courses. Twice recently I have invigilated exams in which one or more students have been allocated...