So when is a PhD not a PhD?
Dr Piercemuller, I see, takes his duties as the supervisor of PhD students as seriously as he does his other responsibilities! He is, I trust, an isolated survivor from an earlier epoch. If one thing...
Dr Piercemuller, I see, takes his duties as the supervisor of PhD students as seriously as he does his other responsibilities! He is, I trust, an isolated survivor from an earlier epoch. If one thing...
Monday. Arrive in Cape Town for a five-day return visit to five South African universities. In January a number of South African universities came to see us as a good example of a multicultural...
Peter Singer's thesis about changing views of life and death (THES, August 18) is based on a fallacy - that "the traditional sanctity of life ethic" has lasted "for nearly 2,000 years". In fact this...
The public (or rather the media) is constantly squabbling about what to do with the National Lottery money (THES, August 25). What suits one section of society will never suit the rest. Camelot could...
Following the report (THES, August 11) by your Scottish editor on the comments made by Chris Masters relating to the recently revealed quality assessments, I feel that there are two points which, in...
This week's Final Word comes from an author who had an unhealthy connection with the railways: "My reason will still not understand why I pray, but I shall still pray, and my life, my whole life,...
Jeremy Black on the Fontana History of Europe series. History in your pocket. Growing up, I was very dependent for books on my local library. The shelves of Edgware library took me from Sutcliffe and...
James McNeill Whistler
Giorgio Vasari
Measuring the Mind
The Eye of the Beholder
Banishing the Beast - The Making of Victorian Sexual Attitudes - Talk Dirty to Me - Sexual Freedom in Restoration Literature
Portraits of Women
The Quantum Dot
Art and Nationalism in Colonial India 1850-1922