Letter: Doctored joy
A recent letter I received from a Scottish university can perhaps help explain the attitude of university administrators towards PhD external examiners. In the letter, a university official writes: "...
A recent letter I received from a Scottish university can perhaps help explain the attitude of university administrators towards PhD external examiners. In the letter, a university official writes: "...
Now that the prime minister is to delay the general election beyond May 3, there is an opportunity to put our stamp on campaigning. Students and teaching staff are central to the political...
From the leading lights of British higher education, there is talk of ambitious change throughout the sector. Mergers, e-universities, foundation degrees, new approaches to credit accumulation and...
British universities have been accused for years of failing to prepare students adequately for work. The plethora of statistics released this week suggests that this accusation was false. Yet in its...

Nigel Barley delights in the deciduous and a deltiologist's. In the village where I grew up there was a little old lady who lived alone. When she died and they broke down the door, they discovered...
The Effect of Science on the Second World War
The Lying Stones of Marrakech
The Doctors of Revolution
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel that revolves around a seedy shop in Soho: "Mr Verloc, going out in the morning, left the shop...
Bertrand Russell
A Memoir
Science and Poetry
A Companion to the Philosophy of Science
The Song of the Earth
Victorian Writing about Risk