Brits add voice to life on Mars claim
FIVE months after Nasa scientists stunned the world with supposed evidence of past life on Mars, British microbiologists have discovered features on a chip of Martian meteorite that add weight to...
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Search for clue to sale fever
IT'S THAT time of year again: people are flocking to shops hoping to snap up a few of the many bargains promised in the New Year sales. But when is a bargain really a bargain? "Very occasionally,"...
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A world full of brave new ideas
LAST week's research assessments show that despite complaints of limited resources, many British academics are doing terrific research. This week and next, The THES is looking at where the best...
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Bachelors who miss the party
Institutions should help hard-up graduates pay the spiralling cost of attending their graduation ceremonies, argues Gail Chester. Across the country over the last few months, new graduates should...
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The flaws in the RAE
COMMENTING on the results of the research assessment exercise (THES, December 20), you remark that: "...the disappointed will naturally seek flaws". Indeed. But what is to be done when the flaws are...
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Quality streetwise
I AM surprised to read that some research councils are unconvinced of the need for the Higher Education Quality Council guidelines on research (THES, December 13). I would have imagined that they...
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Wellcome's fellow
IN CARRYING a withering review of my book, AIDS: The Failure of Contemporary Science (THES, November 15), I think it would have been fairer if you had stated that the reviewer, Jon Turney, is...
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Monastic fantasy
BEFORE waxing lyrical about universities providing an "essential haven or home for cultural workers" (THES, December 6), Valentine Cunningham should consider the growing number of redundant academics...
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Jung's seminal influence
I FIND Richard Noll's refutation of C. G. Jung's theory of the collective unconscious (THES, November 22) flimsy and unconvicing. I argue that whether or not Jung "lied about his evidence" and...
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Jung's seminal influence
DID Richard Noll have to be so heavy handed in his attack on my defence of Jung's theory of archetypes (THES, December 13)? Yes. Because if he is to succeed in his ambition to destroy Jung's...
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Look back in hardbacks
January: The American Historical Association convention in Atlanta starts the year off right. "Why Do Ruling Classes Fear History?" and Other Questions is displayed and my editor, Michael Flamini,...
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Calling Dearing II, Dearing II come in
Now the national curriculum is firmly established in schools, the inevitable mutterings about the standardisation of the curriculum in higher education are starting. The Secretary of State may have...
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Fooled in paradise
Margaret Mead's anthropological work was the cornerstone upon which much of the edifice of social conditioning was built. The problem is, argues Derek Freeman, it was built on a lie and it is time...
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And now for my next trick
Top sociologist Anthony Giddens has a knack for creating things. So what magic has this 'conjuror' got in store for the LSE when he takes over as director next month? Harriet Swain reports. An...
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In with the new
What will the humanities look like in 1997 and who will be the people to watch? Simon Midgley spots the trends and the stars in the first of a two-part series. Critical theoretical practices, long...