Reasons to be fearful
Why does the public find a nuclear waste repository risky? Aisling Irwin on the new academic field facing up to a tangle of sociopolitical factors. The people at Yucca mountain in Nevada State, in...
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Pendulum swings back to stability
Ask people at work "what are you most worried about?" and the answer will be "job insecurity". There has been a 90 per cent growth in student numbers since 1980 but very slow growth in staff numbers...
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Copyright and Europe
Charles Oppenheim (THES, March 17) asserts that the planned extension of United Kingdom copyright to 70 years post mortem does not entail harmonisation with European copyright law. Your correspondent...
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Dialogue with disease
Lucy Hodges meets Julie Theriot, a biologist who listens to bacteria talk. In her lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Julie Theriot is busy growing nasty strains of bacteria. She nurtures listeria and...
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A job to be workwise
Structural unemployment has become the key problem of post-industrial societies, that is, societies in which more than half the workforce is in service jobs. To speak of unemployment as structural...
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Don's Diary
MONDAY. Wake up in a hotel room in Canton at 4am for fear of missing my flight to Zhengzhou. Having researched foot-binding in China for five years, this field trip is to be the culmination of my...
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Intellectual rights of way
The supposed "Battle with CBI on intellectual rights" (THES, March 17) provoked by the Higher Education Funding Council for England decision on GR (funding for collaborative research) is doubly...
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Building the professions
We should like to comment on some of the points made in Peter Smith's article (THES, February 24). Professor Smith complains that "architect" does not feature as an NVQ title. This is because...
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Percentage error
Of the 96 providers of computer science, only 10 or 9.6 per cent, were assessed as excellent" (THES, March 17). Presumably this calcuation was done by one of the others, using a Pentium-based PC ?...
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Masters of many universes
Students now need to be expert in more than one subject in order to answer the major questions posed by modern society, argues Colin MacCabe. The call to interdisciplinarity is almost as old as the...
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BMA powerless to investigate Keele
The British Medical Association has been dismayed by the reporting of its discussions ("BMA to investigate Keele team" THES, February 24). The article is erroneous in stating that the BMA's ethics...
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Sociology's malaise
David Walker is right to argue that sociology has lost its way . The subject has become the victim of its own embourgoisement. Chairs of sociology and new journals proliferate; a comfortable niche...
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Sociology's malaise
While many of the points David Walker makes about sociology hit home (he is not alone in regretting the "lost vitality" of the discipline), the wish to pin the blame on sociologists, rather than on...
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Equality: the modern myth
Australia has "such a strong egalitarian culture" ? (THES, March 17). According to the United Nation's 1994 Human Development Report, the poorest 40 per cent of Australian homes accounted for 15.5...
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We must use the technology
Foresight panels had a rocky start but should now carry on.Ben Gill explains. The 1993 White Paper Realising Our Potential highlighted the need to make wealth creation the major driver in...