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William Gibson of Oxford Brookes University says that I haven't quite got the hang of reductio ad absurdum (Letters, 28 August) and that I can't cry foul if he reduces to absurdity my principles by...
William Gibson of Oxford Brookes University says that I haven't quite got the hang of reductio ad absurdum (Letters, 28 August) and that I can't cry foul if he reduces to absurdity my principles by...
I do realise that it has been the silly season, but the time has come to ask why ߣߣÊÓÆµ has published an article and two letters on the English spelling system written by a...
Ken Smith notes that his name is a near-anagram of "mistaken" and an anagram of "me thinks" (Letters, 21 August). He is lucky. It has been pointed out to me that Professor Hugh McLachlan is an...
Martin Cohen should stop worrying about the use of Wikipedia ("Encyclopaedia Idiotica", 28 August) and start thinking about the skills used to evaluate its contents. In considering any material...
Was it really necessary to illustrate the article "Women may have leapt a gender gap but there is still a hill to climb" (28 August) with naked women? But there again, perhaps there is no better...
Reading Zoe McKenzie's opinion piece about French universities' lack of autonomy and success in global rankings ("The Gallic exception: it is time for a giraffe of a system to evolve", 21 August), I...
Your article "A clear case of laxative enforcement policies" (28 August) listed many egregious student howlers, but the definition of nirvana as "beyond the very ideas of existing and not existing"...
A campus in Singapore is to be established by the University of Wales Institute Cardiff. The UWIC Asia campus is being set up in conjunction with the East Asia Institute of Management (EASB). It will...
Malaria control in West Africa will be the subject of researchers' scrutiny following an £800,000 grant for a team at Keele University. The project is being led by Keele's Centre for Applied...
In the latest round of the Athena SWAN awards, which celebrate good practice in employing women in science, engineering and technology (SET) departments, the universities of Bristol and Nottingham...
Patients who need physiotherapy following a stroke or accident could soon be put through their paces in a virtual reality environment thanks to a researcher at the University of Portsmouth. Wendy...
Medical research projects by two universities on practical applications for patient care have been awarded £20 million by a regional development agency. The universities of Birmingham and Warwick are...
Developing the skills of potential health service chief executives is the focus of a new partnership between the University of Leeds and the National Health Service. The university is providing a new...
Scientists will help children to see a sample of their own DNA at a "science of life" family event organised by staff and students of the School of Biological Sciences at the University of East...
A new exhibition on the history of theatre has opened at the British Library. The Golden Generation: New Light on British Theatre is the culmination of a five-year collaboration between the...