The lack of tragedy and moral ambiguity in US cultural forms leaves Americans naive about the the world, says Ken Hirschkop September 11 is commonly described as a national tragedy (a Google search...
The legendary anthropologist Clifford Geertz has long courted controversy with his views on hard scientific methodology. For him, lit crit and experience in the field are what count. Stephen Phillips...
Why not have a go at answering our Christmas literary quiz over the festive season. You could win a case of wine , or a book token if you are an overseas reader. The closing date for entries is 10...
Dove pie, roast swan, brains in wine, pig's trotters, Anglo-Norman finger food (for the toothless), 12th cake - Colin Spencer kicks off four pages of consuming passions, tracing the development of...
Alan Ryan spent several years teaching at Princeton and has a research appointment at Stanford, but he betrays a lack of understanding of US higher education when he writes: "The cheapness of tuition...
The £5,000-a-year figure bandied about for tuition fees in the UK does not bear scrutiny. The private University of Buckingham charges £1,800 a term - £5,400 for a three-term year. It gets no public...
Students do not buy an education. They work to get a degree. To get good degrees, they work hard and are out of the labour market. Graduates may get high salaries, but this is because employers pay...
Kevin Malone is right: it takes more than six to 12 months to produce a musician, a dancer or a doctor, indeed far more than three or four years of graduate study (Letters, THES, December 13). But...
Milton Wainwright (Letters, THES, November 22) criticises my feature (THES, November 15) for questioning Sir Alexander Fleming's contribution to the development of antibiotics. Neither I nor other...
Having worked under Sir Alexander Fleming and published three papers to correct myths and misinformation about penicillin's discovery, I wish to comment on John Waller's article. Waller's statement...
Laurie Taylor is wrong to call the publication of Alison Wolf's Does Education Matter? a "wholly original" event. Duke Maskell and Ian Robinson open their The New Idea of a University (2001) by...
Contract research staff are not the only university employees to benefit from the removal of fixed-term contracts ("Surrey contract staff win job security", THES, December 6). Loughborough University...
Thames Water's graduate recruitment manager reportedly slates an applicant for saying "I was really keen to work for BP but I didn't get through so I applied to you" and another who said his...
The front-page headline "Mary Warnock looks for God in a racy text" with a stained-glass image of the patriarch himself, inappropriately signalled your religious studies book reviews (THES, December...
Why did Susan Greenfield agree to review David Lodge's Consciousness and the Novel when she is self-confessedly not a literary expert ("Minds meet on a two-way street", THES, December 6)? Greenfield'...