Rising above the mob
When respected scholars enter a public debate, one would hope that their arguments uphold the same principles that underpin their research, namely accuracy and objectivity. Unfortunately, the nine...
When respected scholars enter a public debate, one would hope that their arguments uphold the same principles that underpin their research, namely accuracy and objectivity. Unfortunately, the nine...
In suggesting that academe and industry need to work more closely together, Mark Samuels is revisiting one of the central aims of LINK – launched by the government in 1988 and running well into the...
Carl Lygo’s argument that a university course is poor value for money is strengthened when costs in other educational sectors are compared (“Costly lessons”, Opinion, 5 February). For example, a full...
David Lodge’s novels deal with the relations between academia and the outside world (“Laughing from the inside”, Features, 29 January). They are highly realistic in terms of detail but questionable...
As someone whose job it is to teach English for academic purposes, and who works with international students at higher education level, I read with interest the article “Scholars highlight inadequate...
During the Ebola outbreak in 2014, Peter Piot made a cogent comment on the role of academics in response to a global crisis (“There is a ‘moral responsibility’ to go out and stop Ebola in Africa”,...

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Tony Mann discovers the charisma of mathematicians

Donald M. MacRaild on the English colonists’ determination to hold on to their identity in the New World

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Robert Gellately on an examination of the role of the Wehrmacht leadership