Making the cut
It should be no news to anyone that there are a large number of courses with "forensic" in their title that do little to enhance the prospects of their students fulfilling any ambition they might...
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Still flowing in
The statement that "the flood of fee-paying foreign students entering Australia's universities has slowed to a trickle" ("Tighter visa rules threat", February 17) is not correct. In the 11 months to...
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Unreality TV 1
Lord May's complaint that television drama misrepresents science is valid for other subjects ("It's science, Jim - but not as we know it", February 17). A lawyer recently warned that the legal...
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Unreality TV 2
Lord May is right to complain about the irresponsible and unrealistic way in which science and scientists are portrayed in TV drama. Peter Normington and I have set up SciTalk with support and...
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Taylor-made?
Come on, 'fess up: you only run implausible stories such as "Academics suffer more stress than A&E staff", (February 17) to give Laurie Taylor an easy time with his column the following week...
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Can't beat this panel 1
Peter Kornicki (Letters, February 17) ignores the service that those who have "accepted the research assessment exercise shilling" can provide to their academic disciplines. Along with many of the...
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Can't beat this panel 2
"RAE stars get cash for loyalty", "Universities are offering star researchers 'golden handcuffs'" (February 17). Loyalty to what? Certainly not to students, society and scholarship - but at best to a...
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Detached irony doesn't always travel that well
The same cartoon can raise mirth in one country, bile in another, and therein lies its beauty, says Nicholas Hiley The dilemma seems a very familiar one. An English cricketer becomes a national hero...
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There may be trouble ahead
Has anyone noticed how nervy governments are increasingly trying to head off danger at the pass? Alan Dershowitz has There have been several apparently unrelated stories in the media over recent...
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Let’s play nicely together, shall we?
Will architecture inspired by zoos and Teletubbies help ‘antisocial’ researchers work — or will it drive them mad? Kathleen Richardson on the rise of the academic playpen In the 1951 science-fiction...
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Tiny fibs, little fudges and 900 entirely fictional patients
Are recent cases of scientific fraud in Korea and Norway unusual, or is fakery part and parcel of the scientific method? Anna Fazackerley asks researchers for the inside story When stem-cell...
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Ideas man decides it’s time to act
Huw Richards meets Roberto Unger, a leftist legal scholar and political thinker considering a presidential run in Brazil The journey from lecture hall to presidential palace is far from uncharted,...
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European Institute of Technology: the Commission proposes a new flagship for excellence (plus link to FAQs)
Brussels, 22 February 2006 The Commission is proposing to the European Council to set up a European Institute of Technology intended to be a new flagship for excellence in higher education, research...
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European research to advance road safety
Brussels, 22 February 2006 €100 million have been made available from the Sixth Framework Programme for Research that will advance the safety of drivers, passengers and pedestrians. This...