Hands off, hands on
ALISON Utley's report on child abuse and Thomas Sambrook's book review on aggression (THES, July 11) make an interesting combination. Many social workers seem to hold the view, which probably has...
ALISON Utley's report on child abuse and Thomas Sambrook's book review on aggression (THES, July 11) make an interesting combination. Many social workers seem to hold the view, which probably has...
YOUR "ECOCRITICISM" article was valuable and interesting but it repeats the persistent misconception that it is just about "nature writing" (THES, July 4). Since German zoologist Ernst Haeckel coined...
OH DEAR - Professor Lapping needs a holiday. His scorn ("thoroughly lower second") was unworthy of him. He has had a hard year; perhaps a fortnight on the beach at Teignmouth with a knotted...
THE SCHOOL of thought that the interests of Welshmen as individuals are best served by the destruction of the Welsh language, of which Christie Davies (THES, July 4) declares himself a member, is of...
"TAKE your positions now," proposes The THES (July 11) on the Government's pledge to widen access to universities. I took my position some time back. A year ago, I was head of social sciences at a...
DESPITE the advent of mass higher education, access to university remains on the margins. Budget cuts make it difficult to hold the ground already gained, and higher education still serves as a form...
THE DEBATE about the relative merits of teaching and research in higher education and how to reward excellent performance is similar to the way people respond to the imaginary incentives they are...
Money
Enigmas and Arrivals - Extravagant Strangers
On Gerd Buchdahl's Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Science. When I left Oxford in 1979 and made the short trip east to Cambridge I carried with me a distinctive philosophical baggage: skills in...
Oriental Enlightenment
Consumption in the Age of Affluence - Tough Choices - Population and Food
Strange Country
Writing the Irish Famine
Conductors of Chaos