With no due respect, LOL
Insults toasting on an open flame test Kevin Fong's post-Christmas spirit
Insults toasting on an open flame test Kevin Fong's post-Christmas spirit
A BBSRC scheme aims to find business experts who can help scientists commercialise research. Elinor Zuke reports
Post-RAE, Bahram Bekhradnia calls for a renewed commitment to base public policy on evidence, not administrative convenience
Hugh Laddie, an iconoclastic High Court judge who became a professor of intellectual property law, has died.He was born on 15 April 1946 and educated at Aldenham school in Hertfordshire before...
Human remains are to be returned to ߣߣÊÓÆµ by the University of Oxford, after a request by the ߣߣÊÓÆµn Government and the Ngarrindjeri Heritage Committee. The three different sets of remains...
Jon F. Baldwin offers a wonderful polemic repelling those who strive for a critical pedagogy ("A culture of excellence", Opinion, 1 January). Rather than focus on the banal, trite regurgitation of...
Jan Smit has it almost right and the university registrar he met completely wrong - an indication of some administrators' detachment from academe? (Letters, 1 January).The earliest doctorates were...
I read with interest and some concern your article "Elite v-cs fear 'end of road' for concentration of research" (1 January). Unless I am very stupid, the numbers are totally incorrect.If we take...
Academics can often reveal so much when they believe they have to respond to a review of their book. Having been a book reviews editor for two academic journals, I have witnessed the insecurities of...
Peter Spencer-Phillips, vice-president of the British Mycological Society (Letters, 18 December), is correct to say that I was talking specifically about the critical decline of fungal systematics...
Haidar Eid, from Al Aqsa University in Gaza, Palestine, was recently invited to give a keynote talk at an international conference on the nature of democracy, hosted by the Centre for Applied...
Peter Davies found that once exam grades were taken into account, for sixth formers there was no relationship between parental occupation and aspirations for higher education ("HE ambitions linked to...
Increased government support for low-income families with children has coincided with a rise in births among those who left school at 16, a study by the University of Bristol has shown. According to...
A new £8 million UK Centre for Synthetic Biology and Innovation has been announced by Imperial College London, in partnership with the London School of Economics. It will be set up with a grant from...
Vulnerable people must be protected from robots, a top robotics expert has warned. Noel Sharkey, of the University of Sheffield, has called for international guidelines to be set for the ethical and...