How do you inspire young people to pursue mathematics? Karl Sabbagh meets an offbeat talent-spotter. Charles Ryavec is a trim, grey-haired man in his 60s, teaching at a strange institution called the...
How do you inspire young people to pursue mathematics? Martin Ince looks at UK efforts What is the problem with mathematics in British universities? Ask anyone and you will get the same reply: "...
I certainly aged in the four weeks between photographs in The THES (In the news, October 4; "Celebrity snares", November 1). I am obviously not the celebrity you think as the error went unnoticed by...
Alan Shipman's claim that the MBA might not be worth the paper it is printed on ("Is the masterplan coming unstuck?", THES , November 8) is true only for a minority of graduates. There are more than...
Gillian Evans has fought doughtily to make Cambridge University central administration stick to the rules, so eyebrows may be raised over reports of her promotion to professor before Regent House...
Queen's University Belfast's decision to axe classics ("Poet Heaney joins protest over axeing of classic", THES , November 1) means that potential students "will have to leave the province to do a...
I read with interest the argument that top-up fees will mean that most academics will be unable to afford to send their children to university (Letters, THES , November 8). Up until 1950, some...
Tony Hewish's minimising of the part played by his student Jocelyn Bell Burnell in the discovery of pulsars should not be the final word (Diary, THES , October 25, November 8). The discovery of...
The article "Troubled Wales is hit by plagiarism claim" (News, THES , November 8) conflates and confuses two cases. The first, Jo Kimber's, was a complaint to the University of Wales Swansea that was...
Ian Wilmut's review of Genetic Politics (Books, November 8) ignores how the disability discourse has been hijacked by anti-abortionists. The obligatory denunciation of "eugenics" is one way of...
It is extraordinary that Michael Cohen and Colwyn Williamson should criticise the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology's investigation into Mona Baker's behaviour on behalf of...
Michael Cohen and Colwyn Williamson rightly expose Umist's let's-make-it-up-as-we-go-along "internal inquiry" into Mona Baker's activities. Like Baker, I have been the target of a Zionist "witch-hunt...
Mona Baker has the right to put forward unpopular opinions without fear of losing her job or privileges that go with it. But with privileges come obligations, such as not to bring one's institution...
Academics should guard against simplistic solutions designed more to demonise the Jewish State of Israel and its people than to criticise the political policies of a democratically elected government...
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