A dig at Reading?
In your "Fantasy University League" feature (May 20), a list of 21 university departments accompanied the headline "Top scorers play dirty in RAE game". The reason for listing these departments was...
In your "Fantasy University League" feature (May 20), a list of 21 university departments accompanied the headline "Top scorers play dirty in RAE game". The reason for listing these departments was...
I am disturbed by Lancaster University's decision to have students and local people charged with aggravated trespass for entering a conference on campus last year. The protesters wanted to discuss...
It may be that an ability to kill other human beings confers a reproductive advantage, as David Buss argues, ("Hardwired to kill", May 13), though a life spent behind bars does reduce opportunities...
Paul Julian Smith is plain wrong to say that the Association of University Teachers demonises Israel (Letters, May 20). As for the amount of time it spends on "political" issues rather than "...
The "reasonable" portrait you painted of Sue Blackwell made for intriguing reading ("I've no regrets", May 20). But the image that sticks in my mind is the photo of her wearing a dress tailored out...
The Wellcome Trust has announced that all papers from new research projects that it funds must be deposited in an open-access archive within six months of publication. Does this mean it will include...
Do I hold something of a British, or even a world, record? I have been on temporary hourly paid part-time lecturing contracts at the same institution since October 1988. As your writer pointed out (...
Your article "5% pay offer is asking for a fight" (May 13) again neglects to inform your readers that there are seven campus unions in the Joint Negotiating Committee for Higher Education Staff and...
Reading of the white Jewish lecturer at Barnet College who had to redefine his race to join an equal opportunities committee (May 13), I was reminded of Ali G railing against the police: "Is it...
While the Grid was designed to boost the computing power of particle physicists, its potential benefits to social scientists are only now being recognised. The First International Conference on e-...
Christopher Ricks was all set to rest on his laurels until he was given another opportunity to convey the beauty of Eliot, Milton and Dylan (Bob, that is). Michael North meets a dazzling man. There...
A work by Siegfried Sassoon kicks off a series on verse that has been influenced by university life. Founder's Feast Old as a toothless Regius Professor Ebbed the Madeira wine. Loquacious graduates...
Scientists will use 'bloodhound' and 'hummingbird' robots to plumb the depths of the Arctic Ocean, despite a huge risk. Anna Fazackerley reports. The underwater robot had always come back before. But...
As he faces deportation from Botswana for speaking out on democracy, Kenneth Good looks beyond the tolerance of elected ruling elites for signs of a more egalitarian, participatory form of governance...
It sounds like a dream accessory for a student union building. At more than 14m in length, the Victorian fireman's pole that cuts through all four storeys of Bournemouth University's Old Firestation...