Shaking off the old image is not without problems
Oxford University is keen to improve its image: more modern, open, scientific and technological; less a playground for the rich. But reputations are slow to change. In the ancient rivalry with...
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Not opening the purse will have drastic effect
The Department for Education and Employment is one of the few not to have announced its plans for the second and third years of the comprehensive spending review. Could it be that the minister...
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Indicators fail to perform well
The article on performance indicators on widening participation demonstrates the limitations of quantitative measures ("Paisley puts the elite to shame", THES, October 6). Many Russell Group...
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Indicators fail to perform well
You conclude that "privilege is still the passport to university and top institutions are doing the least to redress the balance". You then concentrate on the failings of the majority of universities...
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Indicators fail to perform well
Your headline "Paisley puts the elite to shame" is at best attention-seeking and at worst wrong. The report shows Paisley as having the best record in widening participation. But the statistics do...
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Tales of mystery and imagination
Consciousness - How To Build a Mind - Understanding Consciousness
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Holistic approaches
The Environment of Schizophrenia
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Quiet life but a big sound
Aaron Copland
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Retaining the psychic mystery
Lives of the Psychics
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a philosopher, mathematician and a man of science: " Common sense is the best distributed thing in the...
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Trees of life and the babel of tongues
Genes, Peoples and Languages
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Search for a switch to light up the brain box
Brain Story
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Did Margaret Thatcher really resign or was your memory playing tricks?
The Oxford Handbook of Memory
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When a rabbit is a red herring
How Children Learn the Meanings of Words