Daytime TV: It's good to talk
Gary Day is bewildered by children who don't speak, and finds prairie dogs amusingly conversational
Gary Day is bewildered by children who don't speak, and finds prairie dogs amusingly conversational

A leaked email indicates that the 42 Poppleton academics who were recently invited to apply for their own jobs have already had their applications rejected.According to the email, which emanated from...
Interns deserve meaningful duties, not humiliating tasks, says Sally Feldman
Hefce's new funding formula aims to spur world-leading research. Zoë Corbyn reports
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India is a land teeming not just with millions of people but also, it seems, a vast number of universities.They come in all shapes and sizes, and one variety of them, known as "deemed universities",...
An acclaimed botanical photographer who established a pioneering course in biological imaging and was promoted to associate professor despite not having a degree has died.Brian Case was born on 24...
Peter Harrison is quoted as damning Richard Dawkins' and his supporters' views as "intellectually vacuous, although their popularity is sociologically interesting" - a phrase that succeeds in being...
It is hardly news to show that many early scientists had religious convictions. After all, they worked in an almost universally religious culture. And of course, science and religion "are not single...
I read the story "Stark facts exposed about anti-regulation therapist" (28 January) with some surprise.I have no quarrel with any of the facts. I am aware that the battle over regulation for...
It is misleading to suggest that the Higher Education Funding Council for England has bowed to pressure to alleviate CO2 reduction ("Hefce reduces carbon targets after protests", 28 January). It has...
Your leader "Is survival all that matters?" (28 January) references international students as a potential source of increased funding for the British higher education sector. But this income stream...
Cardiff University recently had to change the way its medical examination results are produced after a mistake led to four students graduating despite failing an exam.The only way to stop this from...
I support Ron Iphofen's call for a common ethical practice code in the social sciences ("Do the right thing - unite", 14 January), but I found the objections raised in the letter the following week...