Memories of the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989 are shaped by images: iconic moments that include the crowds gathered around the Brandenburg Gate; daring individuals climbing the barrier;...
A leading medical researcher who battled breast cancer while guiding Warwick Medical School to new heights has died.Yvonne Carter was born in Liverpool on 16 April 1959, studied medicine at St Mary's...
The first cohort of indigenous Australian students participating in a new scholarship scheme are due to arrive at the University of Oxford next year, it has been announced. The scheme was launched by...
We the undersigned members of the research assessment exercise 2008 philosophy sub-panel wish to register our deep concerns about certain aspects of the research excellence framework consultation...
Both medicine and the Government are wrong about the classification of cannabis. Physical harm is only part of the issue. The effects of drug classification on the individual and society are matters...
I recognised the story of social scientists' tendency to "address their peers rather than distressed mankind" ("Whither art: vanity is killing social sciences and the humanities", 29 October). Such...
An open letter to Research Councils UKThe research councils have decided that research proposals should include details of their "potential economic impact", a term that they stress embraces all the...
In the article "Ministers first, academics second" (News, 22 October), it was claimed that "academics have reacted angrily to an internal research council document that says that the Government - not...
Michael Thorne's article "Do the market research before you try to make the business case" (29 October) and the recent C.P. Snow lecture in Cambridge are timely reminders of the persisting crudeness...
It is just under a year since you reported that more than 80 per cent of students rate the teaching they receive as good or excellent - satisfaction figures that would be the envy of most businesses...
Michael Arthur's call for greater concentration of research funding overlooks the fact that his vision of about 30 universities taking the lion's share is already here ("V-c: focus research cash or '...
At the heart of the University of Glamorgan's Treforest campus are three life-sized bronze female figures by Robert Thomas: a reclining nude titled Reflection; a seated Dreaming Girl, hugging her...
Researchers and science communicators to cross swords with Lord Drayson. Phil Baty reports
skyponderer - Anyone else worried that science and defence are now inextricably politically linked? With lorddrayson doing both jobs!?LordDrayson - @skyponderer What are you worried about?skyponderer...
An exhibition focuses on the local fixers who made Western exploration possible. Matthew Reisz writes