Universities an election issue
Three weeks before the April round of voting in France's presidential elections, the Conference of University Presidents has called on all candidates to say whether they would make higher education a...
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When the Croat comes in
(Photograph) - When the Croat comes in: Cambridge's traditional Boat Race support will be swollen tomorrow by members of the Croat community in Britain, cheering on the first Croat ever to row for...
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Archaeology headhunting upsets staff
Derek Roberts, provost of University College London, has stirred up academic staff resentment by the use of a head-hunting recruitment strategy used more commonly in the corporate world. The row...
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Planet Earth calling Joe Public
Ragnar E. Lofstedt questions whether the Government's public awareness campaign to cut energy consumption for environmental reasons is hitting home. The UK is one of the few nations in Europe that is...
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The second sex
Gerard McCrum argues that women from state schools are less academically formidable than they were 25 years ago. Why do men dominate the finals lists at both Oxford and Cambridge, scoring...
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Name in vain
Huw Richards on the man who coined the word Pakistan. Rahmat Ali's holy book may have been The Koran, but he would have had no difficulty in recognising the biblical concept of the prophet without...
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When a grunt means 'Sorry'
On the eve of a major conference on the evolution of behaviour in primates and man, Robin Dunbar explains why he believes animals are capable of culture I think, therefore I am," declared the 17th-...
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Friends, Romans, babysitters
Modern day Italian parents may well discuss the cost of babysitteraggio, and young Italians know that when they buy a T-shirt they should ask for una medium (pronounced maydium) or una large, T-...
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Big universe, little men
Astrophysicist Trinh Xuan Thuan (below) tells Stella Hughes about himself and the cosmos. Cosmic spaghetti, galactic sponges and time machines may all sound rather frivolous, but for the purveyor of...
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Teacher knows best
Talk about education inevitably incites disagreement and debate. But there is one statement I make which consistently generates approval and consensus: "I never really know something until I have...
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Don's Diary
SATURDAY. Conference on religious pluralism. The morning session is against it, the afternoon for. I am confused. God isn't. In the evening He shows His singular disdain for theologian and theorist...
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Innocents in the research jungle
Today sees the formal integration of North Trent College of Nursing and Midwifery with Sheffield University, after months of negotiations which were dominated by the question of the transfer of...
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Graduates of school of hard knocks
Aisling Irwin (THES, March 24) bases her arguments against the proposition "Trust me, I am a scientist" on crude stereotypes and oversimplistic categorisations, muddles science with technology, and...
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'Silent sociologists' speak up
Sociologists are accustomed to periodic journalistic attacks but Walker's article is abstruse, rambling and hopelessly ill-informed. But his rhetorical blast at Anthony Giddens is surely enough to...
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'Silent sociologists' speak up
David Walker (THES March 17) writes about the supposed lack of meaningful messages from Britain's "silent sociologists". He might as well be writing about Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs...