When a grunt means 'Sorry'
On the eve of a major conference on the evolution of behaviour in primates and man, Robin Dunbar explains why he believes animals are capable of culture I think, therefore I am," declared the 17th-...
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Friends, Romans, babysitters
Modern day Italian parents may well discuss the cost of babysitteraggio, and young Italians know that when they buy a T-shirt they should ask for una medium (pronounced maydium) or una large, T-...
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Big universe, little men
Astrophysicist Trinh Xuan Thuan (below) tells Stella Hughes about himself and the cosmos. Cosmic spaghetti, galactic sponges and time machines may all sound rather frivolous, but for the purveyor of...
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Teacher knows best
Talk about education inevitably incites disagreement and debate. But there is one statement I make which consistently generates approval and consensus: "I never really know something until I have...
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Don's Diary
SATURDAY. Conference on religious pluralism. The morning session is against it, the afternoon for. I am confused. God isn't. In the evening He shows His singular disdain for theologian and theorist...
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Innocents in the research jungle
Today sees the formal integration of North Trent College of Nursing and Midwifery with Sheffield University, after months of negotiations which were dominated by the question of the transfer of...
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Graduates of school of hard knocks
Aisling Irwin (THES, March 24) bases her arguments against the proposition "Trust me, I am a scientist" on crude stereotypes and oversimplistic categorisations, muddles science with technology, and...
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'Silent sociologists' speak up
Sociologists are accustomed to periodic journalistic attacks but Walker's article is abstruse, rambling and hopelessly ill-informed. But his rhetorical blast at Anthony Giddens is surely enough to...
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'Silent sociologists' speak up
David Walker (THES March 17) writes about the supposed lack of meaningful messages from Britain's "silent sociologists". He might as well be writing about Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs...
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Harmony for 70 years
Patrick Parrinder complains (THES, letters, March 24) about my comments in an earlier letter on the harmonisation of copyright in Europe. Had the original sentence been reproduced in full, it would...
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Yesterday's men, tomorrow's problem
I have been absolutely astonished at the space the educational press has devoted to Natfhe's internal debates regarding the long-running further education new contracts' dispute. I have been even...
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Competition for research funds
The benefits of research council-funded research - output, training, undergraduate experience - identified by Derek Roberts (THES March 17) apply equally to new as well as established universities,...
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Catching the wave of opportunity
The Council for Industry and Higher Education publishes its advice to the Shephard review today. Patrick Coldstream summarises its report. More young people than ever before now believe that it is...
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Defining the tools for Foresight job
Ben Gill's article on the Technology Foresight Programme (THES March 24) gives an inaccurate and misleading impression of the process and of the tools which were used to support the panels. Taking...
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Vice chancellors' pay
Headhunters like Graham MacKenzie of Saxon Bampfylde, make their money by charging their clients a percentage of the remuneration package for anyone they succeed in getting hired. So they have a...