Vitamin tests for Los Angeles gangs
Hans Eysenck seems better at creating an ad hominem argument than at recognising one (THES, March 3). There was nothing ad hominem in my description of the reductionist paradigm within which research...
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The Don Juans
'I was worried it would affect my degree';Claire Sanders tells of her experiences at the hands of a lecherous tutor. It was over ten years ago that one of my supervisors at Cambridge University...
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The Don Juans
Are academics who have affairs with students guilty of an abuse of power? Pam Carter and Tony Jeffs assess whether institutions should curb such relationships. Should university staff enter into...
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All bingo, Barbie and Barthes?
We are all amateur students of culture. It is a subject, like politics, for which we have been revising for most of our lives. We are born into it, we help make it and it, in turn, helps make us. It...
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All bingo, Barbie and Barthes?
Cultural studies has failed, Colin MacCabe tells John Davies. Cultural studies has failed. Or so Colin MacCabe, head of research and education at the British Film Institute claims. He has identified...
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On oriental wisdom
Edward Said's Orientalism, and Culture and Imperialism have had a far better press than they deserve. While both suffer from serious methodological and conceptual shortcomings, in Orientalism Said is...
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Following Freud
Frederick Crews makes a number of basic factual errors in his "triumphalist" critical attack on psychoanalysis. First, he makes the absurd assumption that clinical psychoanalysis has not changed...
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Following Freud
In Frederick Crews's splendid article (THES, March 3) dealing with the responses to his attack on Freud, he comments that his original essay continues to attract more attention than all of his...
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Social engineers with cash in hand
The Government would like to see a shift in the balance between full-time and part-time study. The rationale is transparent: under current arrangements, more students can be educated at a lower cost...
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Deskilling of the probation service
Your reporter was right to draw attention to the widespread academic and trade union opposition to the proposed abolition of university-based training for probation officers (THES, March 3). The...
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Soviet road to research ruin
James Fawcett says science must continue to educate. Scientists do science to make discoveries. In order to do so they have to spend money, much of it coming from the taxpayer. But why should...
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Privations of the private college student
Mek Weerakoon's letter on student grants and funding (THES, March 3) was particularly poignant since each week I and my college registrar have to meet with distraught students and discuss their...
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Challenge to a dual system
Alistair MacFarlane argues for a radical approach to research funding. The review of the dual support system which has been initiated by the Office of Science and Technology is of great potential...
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The value of Acas conciliation
Fawzi Ibrahim's attack on Acas (Letters, THES, March 3) is astonishing. Mr Ibrahim is certainly not writing on behalf of the national executive of Natfhe, he is simply putting his own view. As one of...
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Ski team storms the colonnades
It used to be the ultimate achievement to have a room looking on to the lawn that stretches from the classical Rotunda designed by Thomas Jefferson at the University of Virginia in the United States...