Our friends in blue
Your excellent piece about "brainy bobbies on the beat" gives a compelling account of skills enhancement for our boys (and girls) in blue who are enjoying higher education life and learning ("A quiet...
Your excellent piece about "brainy bobbies on the beat" gives a compelling account of skills enhancement for our boys (and girls) in blue who are enjoying higher education life and learning ("A quiet...
There were many speculative and inaccurate stories in the press last week concerning the Prime Minister and events at 10 Downing Street. Your contribution to this was the article "'V-cs, Muslim...
Just like Pat Brady (Letters, August 25), I have trouble getting my head round the idea that the most intelligent people on the planet are prepared to subject themselves to hours of "mindless...
The Lebanon conflict was characterised by immoral conduct on both sides, says David Rodin, who delves into just war theory. Morality, like truth, is too often among the first casualties of war. Yet...
Call them old-fashioned, but Clive Bloom and John Higgins deplore the blatant plagiarism rife among the Wikipedia generation. We used to call it cheating: the stealing of somebody else's words by...
The engagement of the Dalai Lama and other Buddhist scholars and practitioners with Western science has opened doors into the mind's inner workings and to new interest in 'poetic perception', writes...
Few educators are aware of how online learning tools can betray the privacy of individual users and stifle their learning experience, says Adam Joinson. In August, three leading employees of the...
Negotiate the minefield of local customs and you can gain personal and professional benefits from teaching abroad, finds Anthea Lipsett. When Diana Leonard signed up to teach at Fatima Jinnah Women...
Deadline: 12/10/2006
Deadline: 12/10/2006
Female students outnumber men across the board Female university students now outnumber men across all subject areas, from engineering to medicine and law to physical sciences. New figures from...
Brussels, 13 Sep 2006 A new EU-funded project will lay the foundations of a large-scale, pan-European public infrastructure for research information. Open-access to research information is vital for...
Brussels, 13 Sep 2006 New research from the UK suggests that drivers give cyclists without helmets a wider berth compared to their helmeted counterparts. The closer a driver is to the cyclist, the...
Brussels, 13 Sep 2006 An EU funded project has come up with a diagnostic kit for the two most severe forms of infantile diarrhoea in the developing world - enteropathogenic E.coli (EPEC) and Shigella...
13 Sep 2006 The proposed amendments to China's patent law include two new provisions that would impose additional disclosure obligations for genetic resource inventions. These provisions would...