Exercise that intellect 1
Alan Ryan (Opinion, April 28) thinks, rightly, that IQ is pseudo-scientific junk, but is moved to say so only by the chance it gives him to attack the people on the receiving end of it. If it is junk...
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Exercise that intellect 2
If Alan Ryan wants universities to "nourish the dissenter...", he should go not to John Stuart Mill, but to the critical hermeneutics and ecologism explaining closed minds and the causes of our woes...
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Exercise that intellect 3
The answer to George MacDonald Ross's letter about complaints thatstandards have been lowered (May 5) is: "damn braces, bless relaxes". We should not relax. Alan Ryan Warden New College Oxford
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Psychological warfare
The report that De Montfort University is contemplating withdrawing from accreditation by the British Psychological Society ("Course loses quality stamp", April 28) should come as good news to those...
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First blocks of a customised campus
A personalised service works wonders for Lego, but will the same tactic benefit students? asks Jessica Shepherd Bosses at Lego had a brainwave last September. Why not continue to mass produce the...
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Give people reasons to give and don't trust all to luck - but be nice and keep your fingers crossed
If serendipity does not drop a big gift in your lap, make sure you are courting donors, says Olga Wojtas Richard Davies, the Russian archivist of Leeds University library's special collections, was...
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'Law is not on our side, but honour is. We won't give up'
Oxford's Christ Church College is involved in a dispute with a Japanese university over a book that was stolen from its library. Peter McGill investigates Just over a decade ago, a rare 16th-century...
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It hasn't yet sunk in, but hippy is no longer chic
Why don't creative writing courses engage with the avant-garde 'naked' form of English today, asks Sara Wajid Globalisation and the internet are radically altering English, according to David Crystal...
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Eclectic mix on the rocks
Ice Blink: An Antarctic Essay was published by Book Works in collaboration with The Arts Catalyst, £13.50 In Ice Blink: An Antarctic Essay , published last month, Simon Faithfull mixes Palm Pilot...
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Tracker of talent with 200,000 in her sights
Deborah Eyre is compiling a register of the most able children, an initiative that she says promotes equality, not elitism. Claire Sanders meets her Tucked away on Warwick University's modern campus...
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Le Tribunal rejette le recours introduit par le groupe d'entreprises
10 mai 2006 Arrêt du Tribunal de première instance dans l'affaire T-9/03 Galileo International Technology LLC et e.a. / Commission des Communautés europé...
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Commission Report on the implementation of Regulation 1830/2003 concerning the traceability and labelling of GMOs and food and feed products produced from them (link)
Brussels, 10 May 2006 REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE COUNCIL AND THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT on the implementation of Regulation (EC) No 1830/2003 concerning the traceability and labelling of...
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OECD explores scientific challenges for meeting energy needs, Paris, 17-18 May
Paris, 10 May 2006 The OECD will gather representatives from energy companies, research funding agencies, industrial research and development managers, and top scientists to discuss the direction...
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European Commission establishes scientific partnership with the Amazon Co-operation Treaty Organization
Brussels, 10 May 2006 The European Commission and the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization are making joint efforts aimed at supporting the set up of Pan-Amazonian environmental information systems...
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Report warns Europe over lack of patents, while EPO workers strike over increased workload
Brussels, 10 May 2006 A new report warns that Europe is in danger of 'missing the boat' on commercial returns of nanotechnology, as the number of patent applications remain way below those from the...