An odd pair with a passion for all things pure
James Joseph Sylvester - Arthur Cayley
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A few notes on teasing worms
Darwin Loves You
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Obscure object of affection
Is Pluto a Planet? A Historical Journey through the Solar System
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Dusted off to revive its gleam
The Curious History of Relativity
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Beware: English bulldog stirring
The Nations of Britain
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Belle of the battlefield who flirted amid shot and shell
Mrs Duberly's War
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Laurie Taylor Column
No need for students to feel out of touch when Ken Robards is around, Bill Batty reports. Dr Robards, a senior lecturer in small animal psychology at Poppleton University, is a man with a mission. "I...
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None of us can relax in this dog-eat-prof world
UK higher education cannot afford to be complacent about potential global rivals, argues Howard Davies. British universities have gone through a difficult passage. But after decades of declining...
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Leader: Fixed-term jobs, limited thinking
For the first time in years, casualisation among research-only academics - the group that traditionally suffered most job insecurity - appears to be falling. It is a decline that will accelerate as...
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Leader: To (almost) boldly go
After decades of hibernation, the UK space programme is back. The key to its revival is the idea that spacecraft do not need to get bigger and pricier. Smaller and smarter technology can make...
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Supporting acts 1
The Scottish National Party's separatism is not "popular", as your columnist Maria Misra asserts (Features, March 2). At the last election, the SNP polled 17.7 per cent of the vote in Scotland, its...
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Supporting acts 2
Geoff Andrews's attempts to disparage the Open University deal with Tesco (Opinion, March 2) won't wash. Tesco customers are not "buying degrees" but gaining support for study in the same way other...
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Reactionary view
It strikes me as distinctly odd - one could say perverse even - of Hugh Willmott (Letters, February 23) to defend Foucault and Derrida as champions of "radical enlightenment" and to lump them in with...
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Wrong urge
Winston Fletcher, quoting from The Marketplace of Christianity in his review of the same (Books, February 23), says: "No urge... is more fundamental than the desire to explain existence." This is "...
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To challenge a tutor is brave act
Students who challenge senior academics have to be pretty brave. They are easy targets for intimidation, so I was shocked to find The Times Higher coming down so firmly on the side of the overdog in...