Gender deficit and tradition
Discovering why girls outperform boys at school but fail to do as well at university requires five years' detailed study, argues Gillian Sutherland. People seem surprised that degree results show the...
Discovering why girls outperform boys at school but fail to do as well at university requires five years' detailed study, argues Gillian Sutherland. People seem surprised that degree results show the...
Insanely Great, the Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer that Changed Everything
Explaining Northern Ireland
Pious Passengers:
The Boyd group has been meeting secretly for two years to find a balance between opposing sides of the debate over vivisection. Earlier this year a group of scientists, academics, animal welfarists...
The Artful Universe - The Artful Eye
Government, it has been said, is boring. Local government bores absolutely. Yet local government is the only representative institution we have outside Parliament. It is through participating in...
I am a chauvinist regarding my academic home, the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, United States, and, in spite of the nasty budget cuts we are suffering, the 30th anniversary of its creation by...
Ged Martin takes a serious look at the historical darlings and devils of English popular culture. As a term of abuse, "populist" is used by intellectuals to reconcile their own elitism with a...
Rob Brown reports on the career of Tom Nairn, the Scottish writer and academic who believes that resurgent nationalism does not need to be nasty Those who check the planet's pulse by tuning into TV...
MONDAY. I spend the first part of the day arguing with my head of department about a trip I have to make to Mutare, 600km east of Bulawayo. Two students are based there for their industrial...
Chapter 3. Henry spent an uncomfortable night trying to fight off the feeling of being hoist on his own petard. He kept reminding himself that despite this setback, the plan itself had worked like a...
Igor Aleksander asks us to take seriously his argument concerning the problem of consciousness, by suspending "the deep contempt that many have for inanimate object" (THES, November 18). Although we...
Sports scholarships should only be awarded to those also able enough to do a degree, argues Huw Richards Perhaps the first task of Roger Bannister's working party on sports scholarships should be to...
Burma in Revolt