Treasury must stump up for Bett
Your editorial is entirely right to say that it is essential to find ways of implementing Bett's "modest and eminently justifiable recommendations" in respect of university pay (Opinion, THES, June...
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Treasury must stump up for Bett
Has the Bett report told us anything we did not already know? That most academics are underpaid, that universities do not have the money to make up the difference and that the government will not...
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Curious anthropology
As parents of a 15-week-old boy, we found Gabriele vom Bruck's assertion that academic women who cannot negotiate equal terms of domestic labour with their partners should "stop complaining" and...
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The wage of reason
Stephen Machin and Andrew Oswald ("Economic rent", THES, June 25) argue that academic economists need to be paid "far, far more". The main reason they give is that young economists are now going into...
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The English have got a lovely bunch of coconuts
Voltaire's Coconuts
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Blind man with the gift of vision
Collected Fictions - Selected Poems
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Living pictures of phantom dead
Cinema and the Great War - Filming All Quiet on the Western Front
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The roots of our present ills
English Pasts
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a tale of English snobbery and a rural legacy: " One may as well begin with Helen's letters to her...
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Under the spells of scientific discovery
Galileo's Commandment
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A battle for public opinion
William Pitt and the French Revolution 1785-95 - The British Monarchy and the French Revolution
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From strikes to teamwork tiffs
The Harmonisation of Employment Conditions in Britain - Rethinking Industrial Relations
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Necessary steps to preserve the world's ecosystem
Our Forests Our Future
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Sailing towards the real Byzantium
Byzantine Court Culture from 829 to 1204
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The patchy wealth of nations
The Competitive Advantage of Nations