Published this week
? = Review forthcomingBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES- Animal Experimentation: A Guide to the IssuesBy Vaughan Monamy, senior lecturer in environmental science and environmental ethics, ߣߣÊÓƵn Catholic...
Search
-
-
Government raises funding to £7.8 billion
2009-10 grant letter reveals 9.8 per cent increase over previous year. John Gill reports
-
Leeds Met fees set to rise after v-c resigns
Dissent over higher charges may have influenced Simon Lee's decision to go, writes Melanie Newman
-
From where I sit - Pariah status for informal experts
He is a sprightly 77-year-old schoolteacher who has spent his life discovering ancient painted rock shelters in an area of central India called Narsinghgarh.Yet few outside the small town where he...
-
Targett blames students
Statistics showing that Poppleton had come last in the ߣߣÊÓƵ Student Experience Survey have been dismissed as "unreliable, invalid, partial, misleading and seriously out-of-date" by...
-
Cash and trash trump class
Privilege clings to wealth as mores change, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
-
Research intelligence - Matters of loaf and death
Ensuring the UK's food supply in an uncertain future has become a priority for the BBSRC. Zoe Corbyn reports
-
Leader: Everyone is talking the talk
The increasing use of English in higher education across Europe could cost the UK a vital competitive advantage
-
Olek Zienkiewicz, 1921-2009
Olek Zienkiewicz, the civil engineer acclaimed as the father of the "world-changing" computational modelling technique known as the Finite Element Method, has died.Although born in Caterham, Surrey...
-
We need collaboration, not concentration 1
Michael Arthur, the vice-chancellor of the University of Leeds, fears that the loss of a "critical mass" at the research-intensive universities will damage Britain's research environment, leading to...
-
We need collaboration not concentration 2
Am I the only one who squirmed with embarrassment at the plea for mercy by Michael Arthur as he feared sharing the post-RAE quality-related funding pot with "less" research-intensive universities?He...
-
Euthanasia is ethical option 1
Soran Reader, who is facing risky neurosurgery, is not overstating matters when she argues that it is wrong that patients in the UK cannot ask for euthanasia ("It is monstrously wrong that patients...
-
Euthanasia is ethical option 2
Until recently I was a higher education lecturer. I now have advanced breast cancer and anticipate a difficult death. Reassurances about pain relief and symptom control do not help the distress I...
-
Education's true nature
I wonder if Eddie Blass was intending to be funny in serving up a perfect business definition of liberal education ("Nurture all-round talents", 15 January). She will certainly have displeased few...
-
Why we can't talk pay yet
Since the damaging 2006 pay dispute, higher education employers have reflected long and hard and have pursued an agenda of reform to provide a framework for the continuation into the 21st century of...