Speak up, modern languages academics, enjoins Malcolm Cook. We must make the same noise about closures as our chemist colleagues When a university decides it will close chemistry there is a public...
Voracia Storme mixes pleasure with the business of taking the University of the Dome to the top in Sally Feldman's tale, which was runner-up in our contest to write the opening chapter of a satirical...
And the winners are ... Mandy Garner opens the envelope and reveals the recipients of the Poppleton Awards for Notorious Teaching and Scholarship It's that time again. You've scarcely looked up since...
Philip James and Neville Rigby say that obesity needs urgent action, while Paul Campos thinks we have much bigger worries on our plate In the face of robust US government statistics showing that at...
Philip James and Neville Rigby say that obesity needs urgent action, while Paul Campos thinks we have much bigger worries on our plate Recently, I published a brief opinion piece in which I...
Geoff Andrews explores a university that serves up gourmet courses One of the dilemmas that new university students often grapple with is how to manage their food budget. Shelves stocked with tinned...
...for tomorrow thinness may be out of vogue. While modern societies see fatness as undesirable, many past cultures considered it a virtue. What drives our attitudes? asks Felipe Fernández-Armesto In...
The Ivy League is touted as a model for the UK. But, despite their outreach initiatives and generous scholarships, Paul Lewis contends that US universities are as prone to hereditary elitism as...
Shakespeare's work should be appreciated as complex art as well as marketable entertainment, says Kate McLuskie. Whereas Tom McAlindon believes that theory-driven radicals are sapping the joy from...
Shakespeare's work should be appreciated as complex art as well as marketable entertainment, says Kate McLuskie. Whereas Tom McAlindon believes that theory-driven radicals are sapping the joy from...
London, 21 December 2004 A Strategic Framework for Hydrogen Energy in the UK - final report (full version) (PDF, 3,894kB) Index, executive summary and chapter 1 (PDF, 306kB) Chapters 2-7 (PDF, 1,...
Brussels, 21 Dec 2004 19 out of the 25 Environment Ministers who met in Brussels on 20 December voted against approval of the GT73 oilseed rape, genetically modified (GM) by Monsanto in order to...
17 December 2004 at detection thresholdIn its December plenary session the EESC adopted two opinions concerning genetically modified crops and the European action plan for organic food and farming....
Brussels, 21 Dec 2004 The Council noted that no qualified majority was attained to allow for a decision on the Commission's proposal authorising the placing on the market of a oilseed rape product (...
Brussels, 21 Dec 2004 A Network of Excellence on innovative production machines and systems (I*PROMS) is addressing what it sees as the six 'manufacturing challenges for 2020'. The network will...