Much of current UK discrimination law, including the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (DDA), is founded on the European Equal Treatment Framework Directive. The Framework Directive prohibits...
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Our university faced mounting criticism last week when it emerged that more than 42 per cent of its academic staff now enjoyed the title of "professor". Although admitting that this was "somewhat in...
Marking schemes are an admission of failure, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Universities' admissions of their failings have been met with calls for stringent supervision, surely the wrong approach entirely
Judith Bailey, the former deputy director of the University of Cambridge's computing laboratory who was instrumental in helping academics apply computer technology to their research in the 1970s and...
Will the human species survive the 21st century? This was the question addressed at a conference last week, "Global Catastrophic Risks", at the University of Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute,...
Let it be noted: the vice-chancellor of a prominent university in Britain has caved in to the culture of fear ("Researchers have no 'right' to study terrorist materials", 17 July).The University of...
The statement issued by Sir Colin Campbell, the vice-chancellor of the University of Nottingham, indicating that it is illegitimate to study the operational or tactical aspects of terrorism, as...
I was glad to read that 66 New Hall alumni had signed a letter of protest to the college over its "rebranding" and the change in its name ("Week in higher education", 17 July). I also would have been...
I regret that ߣߣÊÓƵ was not able to publish in full my remarks about the University and College Union ("Derecognise UCU over Israel motion, says Deech", 10 July). In calling for...
It is wonderful to see more money being put into grants to fund boundary-hopping between disciplines ("Leap ahead", 17 July). The emphasis with these grants is on the physical and life sciences,...
I fell about laughing to read that a research grant of £123,000 will be used to help older people keep warm in winter with less fuel, reduce their carbon footprint and help them to lead "sustainable...
Your report "Troubles and strife as IRA historian draws peers' fire" (3 July) gives the misleading impression that our conference was dominated by the Kilmichael debate. In fact, over two days we...
No, not the claim of many a self-help guru, but increasingly the mantra of modern academics. Matthew Reisz finds out why they are dipping their toes in the genre, despite its lack of scholarly kudos