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Steven Weinberg's rant against the Natfhe boycott of Israeli academics (Opinion, May 26) is no more convincing than the Federation of Unions of Palestinian University Professors and Employees'...
Steven Weinberg's rant against the Natfhe boycott of Israeli academics (Opinion, May 26) is no more convincing than the Federation of Unions of Palestinian University Professors and Employees'...
You published two ill-informed articles to illustrate opposing views on the boycott of Israeli academia. Steven Weinberg denies that Arabs are the victims of discriminatory educational practices in...
I was appalled by Leeds University's craven capitulation to the vociferous and increasingly sanctimonious attackers of Frank Ellis and his views, but I am equally appalled by Gavin Reid's intemperate...
If senior managers are deducting pay from lecturers taking industrial action, what will happen to the money they have "saved"? Returning it to the Higher Education Funding Council for England is...
We at Evidence strongly agree with Andrew Oswald that the quality of articles withinjournals is a critical factor in the use of citations ("Journals study raps snobbery", May 19). For that reason,...
I have carried out a very similar study to Andrew Oswald's but I drew very different conclusions from my results. I studied the citation history of more than 600 papers published in 1990 in six...
The opinion pieces about Colin Slee's sermon ("A beacon of hope or dogmatic analogy?" May 19) revealed as much about the writers' understanding of the Reformation as it did about the contemporary...
I was struck that two points of comparison were overlooked in the criticism of the Dean of Southwark's statement that the world was witnessing a "Muslim Reformation". First, both the Christian and...
The potential diversion of millions of pounds of funds from other research councils to a single fund for health research ("Councils may lose medical funding", May 26) will be to the detriment of UK...
Something nasty is happening on UK campuses, says David Cesarani, where anti-Jewish sentiment increasingly manifests intself as anti-Zionism. Newspaper reports in Israel and the US have depicted...
At a House of Commons Home Affairs Committee on immigration control in May, Gwyn Prosser, MP, told fellow members that while Leeds University had received some 2,500 applications from Nigerians, and...
Dylan Prentice, , a research student, lives for free on the Nitani Private Game Reserve in Botswana and has time to carry out his research. In return, he acts as an expert ranger and runs the ten-bed...
Three years ago, a handsome crumbling Art Deco hotel by the Indian Ocean near Cape Town was transformed into the African Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS). It is an example of how South...
When US students were given laptops to aid in note-taking, many of them ended up surfing the net in lectures. Stephen Phillips explores the pitfalls of progress. When laptops first appeared in...
Nursing students fear that NHS cuts and suspect qualifications will harm job prospects. Nic Paton reports. Nursing has never been a field that one enters for an easy life. The pay is not great (...