It is a well-established principle of discrimination law, including disability discrimination, that to prove discrimination a claimant must demonstrate that he or she has been treated less favourably...
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Jamie Targett, our thrusting Director of Corporate Affairs, was quick to respond to criticism of our university's environmental policy that surfaced when Poppleton emerged in 125th place in the 2008...
Ian Crawford from Birkbeck, University of London, has been appointed by the Science and Technology Facilities Council to act as project scientist for the proposed UK-led MoonLITE mission to the Moon...
Kevin Fong discovers fear in a campus mini-mart shelf full of Pot Noodles
Middle management occupies an uneasy but vital position between collegial scholars and master-planning senior officials
Long before events thrust the relationship between Christianity and Islam to the centre of the political consciousness, David Kerr was devoting his professional life to furthering interfaith...
Idly perusing the job adverts (Classified, 3 July), I see that a "Director of Grand Challenges" is sought who can demonstrate "outstanding communication, interpersonal and influencing skills". Lest...
Katharine Ellis manages to sound very upbeat in her response to Kevin Sharpe's appeal for a UK equivalent to any number of US institutions devoted to advanced research in the humanities (Letters, 26...
Katharine Ellis's suggestion that the Warburg and the various uncoordinated institutes at Senate House constitute the national Institute for Advanced Study for which I called is a classic case of...
If Peter Williams doubts that the external examiner system is no longer fit for purpose (Letters, 3 July), let me now extend an invitation to him to meet me and review the first-hand evidence (not...
In our book Trick or Treatment? Alternative Medicine on Trial, Simon Singh and I evaluate the evidence for or against some 40 alternative therapies. We stress that several are backed by encouraging...
So, John Gilbey would like to instruct those of us in the film building to find some real scientists ("Fools! I will destroy you all!", 19 June). I already know where the science building is on my...
The Lords debate on higher education ("Free sector and let fees rise, argue Lords", 3 July) covered most of the deceptions perpetrated in higher education.First, the cost. Quadrupling class sizes...
Before we launch into a moral panic about self-plagiarism and redundant publication ("Allow me to rephrase that, and boost my tally of articles", 3 July), we ought to debate what these terms might...