Thousands of people confound the global medical profession with inexplicable symptoms each year. Steve Farrar reports on the diagnostic nightmare haunting hospitals and leaving patients in despair....
Thousands of people confound the global medical profession with inexplicable symptoms each year. Steve Farrar reports on the diagnostic nightmare haunting hospitals and leaving patients in despair....
The 'Lazarus' shark's ability to survive without oxygen could have vital implications for medicine. Linda Vergnani reports. It is midnight, and an icy wind is whipping the sea as Gillian Renshaw...
... and as parents play a greater role in their children's higher education decisions, league tables are likely to be their key guide. Shola Adenekan and Mandy Garner report. Parents are still...
DNA can help identify a murder victim and put a name to their killer but, says José Antonio Lorente, it is no magic wand. Rebecca Warden reports. Emilio Silva Faba ran a fish shop in the village of...
There is no doubt that Piltdown man was a hoax, but there is still little agreement on who was responsible, writes Geoff Watts. The Piltdown hoax is to palaeontology what Jack the Ripper is to...
I am alarmed at the accusations and innuendoes surrounding Harris Manchester College, Oxford, and its principal Ralph Waller. What began as a legitimate complaint by disgruntled graduates and their...
Juxtaposition of facts can mislead ("Row over freedom of speech at Oxford", THES , November 7). You report that I "was not prepared to make" inquiries about the 30 alumni signatories to an open...
David Fysh and Alan Carr are at odds with other union colleagues and employers over the lecturers' pay offer (Letters, THES , November 7). The framework agreement offers increases of between 7.7 and...
The pressure group Sense About Science is not a force of enlightenment (Opinion, THES , November 7) but yet another vested-interest group aiming to crush dissent. This one automatically labels as "...
Martin Conway and Andrew Young (Soapbox, THES , October 31) describe the potentially disastrous move to downgrade psychology as a science subject. In 1965, I was appointed to develop psychology at...
Lord Puttnam and subject lobby groups should understand the Higher Education Funding Council for England's methodology before shooting off scare stories (Letters, THES , November 7). First, the...
Gillian Evans' comment on the outcome of the Quality Assurance Agency's audit of the University of Cambridge (Letters, THES , November 7) is as misleading as the headline ("Watchdog mauls LBS and...
I am dismayed by Roger Watson's flippant generalisations about nurse educators (Letters, THES , October 24). As a professor of nursing, he should be celebrating the fact that nursing is in the realm...
Any colleague contemplating a post at a German university should look carefully at their pension rights. When I took up my appointment in Munich, I was assured that my years of service in the UK...