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The sense of persecution that pervades comments from academics whose work has been "rubbished" by the Government ("Ministers vilify researchers", December 1) is misplaced. All the examples cited came...
The sense of persecution that pervades comments from academics whose work has been "rubbished" by the Government ("Ministers vilify researchers", December 1) is misplaced. All the examples cited came...
The story "Ministers vilify researchers" is timely and important. Our experience with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs over the past three years as former members of its...
At the University and College Union special higher education conference, motions that were severely critical of the manner in which industrial action had been ended were carried by about 60 per cent...
As a delegate at the UCU's higher education consultation conference, I can confirm that the meeting did indeed give the leadership a pummelling over its handling of this year's pay campaign. In doing...
In failing to note the emergence of cross-protective influenza vaccines, your article "Public enemy number one" (Features, December 1) does not recognise this most important emerging area of research...
It was a pleasure to read Ronald Schuchard's celebration of the value of introducing undergraduates to manuscripts (Features, December 1). There are indeed "seeds of a mini-revolution" within...
You wrote that the council of Cambridge University consists of 16 members elected by academics and seven others. That is not how the arithmetic looks from here. We academics elect 12 from among our...
Having been in Venezuela last summer, I was dismayed by the bias in your feature on the country's "socialist climber", Hugo Chávez (Features, December 1), who was re-elected President by a wide...
The appeal by the Council for Assisting Refugee Academics (Letters, December 1) to help our Iraqi colleagues should be supported beyond cash and sanctuary. British academics should analyse and speak...
The belief among conservative Christians that some behaviour is sinful does not amount to an expression of hate, says Rowan Williams, so why have some student unions withdrawn recognition from...
... "The first thing they do is put on the radio and wait until a bomb goesoff," he says. "They then wait another half hour to see if there is another bomb and then go out, steering clear of crowded...
Westminster lecturer Russell Stannard is videoing himself marking essays so that students get the most out of feedback. He reports on small-screen success Imagine you videoed yourself every time you...
PHILIPPA DARBRE, 54, SENIOR LECTURER IN ONCOLOGY, READING UNIVERSITY What is the nature of your research? My research interests centre around the role of oestrogen and oestrogen-mimicking chemicals...
Deadline: 01/09/2007
Deadline: 12/01/2007