The Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations were amended in 2007 to prohibit direct and indirect discrimination, harassment and victimisation on the grounds of any religion or belief. “...
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All of us on the editorial team of The Poppletonian are so fascinated by Off Piste, the fortnightly series in Times Higher Education in which academics step outside their area of expertise, that we'...
As they stand, university rankings do not make sense, says Alan Ryan
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The individual aspects of motor racing can be intellectually appreciated, but the sum of the total adds up to a pure, gut-stirring experience that's all about feeling, enthuses Sir Drummond Bone
The conventions and traditions of academia make it especially difficult to pinpoint what constitutes bullying behaviour
The ethics of Chinese scholars have come under intense scrutiny following a recent scandal in the country.In mid-February, 80 people in the city of Guangzhou were poisoned after eating pork that...
Olivia Harris, a leading anthropologist, has died.She was born on 26 August 1948, grew up in Surrey, was educated in Kent and studied Classics at St Anne's College, Oxford. She then switched to...
The group Academics for Academic Freedom (AFAF) confuses freedom of speech with academic freedom, and thus undermines both ("Academics urged to defend free speech without limits", 14 May).It claims...
In your story on the student disruption of a conference advocating closer ties between universities and industry ("Protesters disrupt business-link conference", 14 May), you first reported the...
You report the possible acquisition of BPP by the Apollo Group ("For-profit growth predicted if US giant buys UK's BPP", 14 May). If this happens, the legal responsibility for BPP's degree awards...
Alec Ryrie seems to imply in his (absolutely appropriate) commendation of Eamon Duffy's Stripping of the Altars ("The Canon", 7 May) that the book is "dedicated to God himself". I have no idea...
I am surely not alone in being puzzled by the "Top journals in computer science" (Research intelligence, 14 May). By far the strangest inclusion was the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation...
I always thought that the reason UK students pay lower fees than overseas ones is that educating British citizens helps the domestic economy, whereas foreign students take the benefits back home (...