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The final frontier to UK space exploration is political but exhilarating nevertheless, says Kevin Fong

The final frontier to UK space exploration is political but exhilarating nevertheless, says Kevin Fong
Jamie Targett, the director of corporate affairs at the University of Poppleton, is, of course, right that David Willetts would not feel at home in the staff annex to its refectory (The Poppletonian...
Rosemary Deem (Letters, 9 May) offers a constructive critique of the views expressed in “Whim and rigour” (25 April) and mentions my PhD research. It involves observing doctoral vivas in different...
Regarding “Israel Academia Monitor fears the enemy within” (News, 16 May): your article misses an important part of our round-table debate on academic freedom in Israel.Radical scholars who use their...
The Tories have unleashed the biggest assault on ordinary people for generations. It needs to be met head-on.The People’s Assembly Against Austerity is a key opportunity to bring together all those...
ߣߣƵ warned recently of a “stark choice” of where spending cuts must be made as a result of the government’s spending review (“Hobson’s choice? Not if we can help it”, News, 16 May...
István Aranyosi has left us in little doubt about his prowess as a budding researcher, and I certainly hope that he fulfils his promise (“No one should be hired on the basis of whether their face...

If it had wanted to, the Home Office could have issued a loud raspberry to its critics in the higher education sector after figures showed a rise in visa applications for university study. Overall...


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