Letter: BAT funding at Notts(2)
You really know how to spoil a guy's Christmas. I bet Sir Colin Campbell has already been on to his lawyers about the "correction" (Letters, THES, December 22/29) affirming that the word "clever" is...
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Letter: Tests and terrorists(1)
Your article on legislation to limit terrorist activities by extreme animal rights groups ("Law fails to assure animal researchers", THES, December 15) will be welcomed by scientists who live in fear...
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Letter: Tests and terrorists(2)
It is because of their failure to persuade the public of their cause that the animal rights extremists have resorted to campaigns of violence and intimidation. It is unacceptable that medical...
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Letter: Herts course cutting
At the University of Hertfordshire, in social sciences, one of four areas closing ("Hertfordshire faces legal action over course closures", THES,December 15), three staff left last summer and six are...
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Letter: Not in Kansas
John Radford's responses to the criticism of his earlier letter (Letters, THES, December 15) simply reiterate that males happen to do better on the most commonly used tests of mathematics than...
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Letter: Unqualified success
Matthew Chapman is concerned degree mills are harming the reputation of UK higher education ("I'd like one doner kebab and a PhD to take away", THES, December 15). Surely more important are the...
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Multi-dimensional man
John Barrow believes the public needs to know more about science - which is why he's published ten books on the subject and in March will deliver one of this year's Darwin College lectures....
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A light for dark Burmese days
George Soros is giving hope to refugees from an oppressive regime. Maureen Aung-Thwin discusses the aims of the philanthropist. People are intrigued that the foundation network created by Hungarian-...
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So you can get to level four on Tomb Raider - but do you know how it works?
British children love computer games, but they should also be learning to understand the technologies that drive them. Computers are almost ubiquitous: cars, mobile phones and even toasters are...
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Building on a breakdown
Poverty and depression left Peter Beresford a virtual prisoner in his own home. But he turned the tables when he used his experience to found a user-led research centre. It was 14 years ago that a...
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Latest UK news
University applications drop Confidential preliminary totals from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service show that on 20 November 2000 the number of application forms received was about 6,...
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Latest international news
Pay dispute prompts exam boycott Lecturers at the University of Zambia have blocked end of semester examinations in a dispute over a 100 per cent pay demand, despite a promise of rapid negotiations...
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From today's UK papers
GUARDIAN Former maths teacher - and teaching union head - John Dunford responds to a survey in which children depicted maths teachers as lonely, bald and unstylish. INDEPENDENT An economist...
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TV & radio guide - Thursday
The X File (11.30 am R4). Alex Cox on film censorship’s history and the first "X certificates" in 1951. Belief (7.00 R3). Joan Bakewell interviews John Bowker, theology professor. Gold...
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Latest international news
Education minister regains control of universities Danish minister for education Margrethe Vestager has regained responsibility for the country’s universities from the research ministry. The research...