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Growing distrust of medical histories funded by industry could ultimately help to improve scholarship and encourage a more healthy public critique, argues David Cantor. Recently I had a somewhat...
Growing distrust of medical histories funded by industry could ultimately help to improve scholarship and encourage a more healthy public critique, argues David Cantor. Recently I had a somewhat...
The texts on the Rosetta Stone have long been deciphered, so why does it still hold such a fascination for both scholars and the public? wonders Karen Gold. Surely only a geeky schoolboy would have...
In the first part of a new series on working relationships between researchers, Huw Richards talks to the authors of a seminal media studies text about their teamwork. Power without Responsibility by...
...is this a joke? asks Michael North as he sits through gratuitous obscenities and some charming wit in a performance that's part of a stand-up comedy course. The atmosphere in the Laughing Horse...
From: The Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive Subject: Surge in science applications I am sure you will wish to congratulate the management of this university for the dramatic 2 per cent surge in...
The response of Birmingham University to your report on the controversy surrounding the PhD thesis by Charlotte Exon about Rudolf Schwarz ("University under fire for flawed PhD thesis", February 9)...
In its "right to reply", Birmingham University said it had "absolute confidence that the award of doctorate, after rigorous and scrupulous external examination, was fully merited". In which case, the...
Your recent opinion piece about the possible death of computer science (Opinion, February 9) is a timely and pertinent wake-up call for the academic community. Although there are some rather crude...
Thanks for ruining my weekend with your latest issue. I suppose in the good old days, when we had staff rooms, there'd be a corner where people such as Gary Day (Columnist, February 16) could mutter...
In an instructive and illuminating review of Jonathan Israel's Enlightenment Contested (Books, February 16), Simon Blackburn concludes by regurgitating an example of the "invisible dogma" that...
Is there a chance, for once, of correcting and disabusing analytic philosophy of the canard that the Frankfurt School was hostile to the ideals of reason, freedom, democracy and so on, in Simon...
I enjoyed Richard Austen-Baker's parody of Chris Woodhead (Letters, February 16), in which he employs Woodhead's gift for insult, ill-informed dogmatism and hysterical prejudice to dismiss PGCEs. But...
Regarding your report "QAA pans uneven postgrad support" (February 16) - far from "panning" "uneven postgrad support", in our recent reviews of postgraduate research programmes, the Quality Assurance...
Swearing, epithets and other linguistic taboos are a fascinating yet poorly understood aspect of language, and I have yet to meet a person who isn't intensely curious about the phenomenon. The topic...
Sunny Bains's way forward in dealing with plagiarism cases offers a new slant on handling such offences (Opinion, February 16). However, I find it a trifle naive that an academic department should...