Letter: The RAE rat race 1
The idea that centres of excellence for research will also be centres of excellence for teaching is misconceived (Letters, THES , February 1). Academics who are brilliant researchers, teachers and...
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Letter: The RAE rat race 2
All the hype over the research assessment exercise puts me in mind of two men watching an uphill cycle race with the participants sweating and straining, their eyes bulging. The first man asks his...
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Letter: The RAE rat race 3
The decision to allocate only £20 million to 3a units has little basis in quality. At least two-thirds of the members of any 3a unit carry out research of national excellence, compared with 4-rated...
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Letter: The RAE rat race 4
Might I add two RAE categories to the vice-chancellor of Poppleton University's list (Laurie Taylor, THES , February 1)? "Almost as research active as the others, but we didn't want to take the risk...
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Letter: Beware stereotypes 1
What is meant by "ethnic" background in describing "motivated" students (Analysis, THES , February 1)? Each of us belongs to a particular racial, national, religious and cultural background. If "...
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Letter: Beware stereotypes 2
The negative racial stereotype in the cartoon that accompanied the article "30% dropout rate dismays Australians" ( THES , January 25) shows your antenna for institutional racism were not plugged in...
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Letter: Lesbians? Who cares?
Michael Heseltine can doubtless speak for himself, but I am sure that he would be surprised that he has supported our campaign for a statue of Sylvia Pankhurst to be erected outside the Palace of...
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Lab-solutely fabulous
She's Italy's La Professoressa, role model for feminists and cham-pion of cash-starved researchers, but for her, science is there to help the world's poor. Paul Bompard meets Rita Levi Montalcini....
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Behind our love is a lust for new life
In our series on Big Science Questions, Tim Birkhead looks at research in male-female attraction. We have all felt that little zing! when we see someone we fancy, and a much greater ZING! when these...
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Is love just a 'trick' that dissuades us from leaving when logic tells us we really should walk away?
In our series on Big Science Questions, David Buss finds that a lust for love is a universal trait. Why someone falls in love with one person rather than another from the thousands of potential...
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Business buys into deals with diplomacy
As the global economy increasingly thrusts big business into conflict with pressure groups and NGOs, demand has risen for a new academic discipline - 'corporate diplomacy'. Tony Durham reports....
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France still feels the force of his habitus
The legacy of Pierre Bourdieu (right), a giant of sociology, is the rigour with which others continue exposing the brutal truth of life under capitalism, writes Fred Inglis. With the death on January...
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Silent suffering of caring sector
Without action to halt its demographic time bomb, social work will continue to decline, argues Terry Philpot. Who is Mr or Ms Social Worker? The popular image, and one occasionally peddled by...
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Don't worry, you are highly marketable
For academics who find themselves back on the job market, the advice is to rip up your CV and to see yourself as 'a solution', Olga Wojtas explains. As the financial pressures on higher education...
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If only Flash Gordon were Steady Eddie
Is the reason that women are outperforming men academically really due to the switch away from exams to coursework? Ruth Woodfield looks at the evidence. When Madsen Pirie, president of the Adam...