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I note with interest the efforts of City University to charge lecturers for rooms they book but fail to use. Given property prices in the area, surely the university should consider putting the rooms...
I note with interest the efforts of City University to charge lecturers for rooms they book but fail to use. Given property prices in the area, surely the university should consider putting the rooms...
The changes proposed to Cambridge University's intellectual property policy are not a "wrecking amendment" ("Cambridge to ballot on IP reforms", October 28). They will return us to the policy we...
In his review of Tony Kushner's We Europeans (Books, November 4) Panikos Panayis describes the study as concentrating "on ethnic minorities in Britain in the 1930s and 1940s when Jews formed the...
I share Dennis Hayes's commitment to critique and robust intellectual debate ("The touchy-feely brigade: coming your way soon", November 4). How curious then that instead of a critical analysis of...
Dennis Hayes's fears for the impact of the touchy-feely brigade serves up a confused picture. While I wholly endorse the notions of academic freedom and intellectually robust criticism, I cannot...
While we applaud many of the sentiments expressed by Dennis Hayes, we cannot share the "anything goes" extremes of his stance. We should not forget that academic freedom can be used, and has been...

As David Attenborough launches his new series, Anna Fazackerley finds out why he is the academy's favourite broadcaster His hushed, mellifluous voice has become synonymous with natural history. He...
In the dead of night, a detachment of aphaenogaster ants embarks on a covert mission. Its target is a colony of harvester ants (pictured top) that has arrived in the aphaenogasters' corner of New...
A man on the moon - Nasa; Thatcherite free market economics - Institute of Economic Affairs; the atomic bomb - Manhattan Project; the genetic code of humanity - Human Genome Project; pet varnish -...
More than 60 years ago, a theory on speech was tested on orphans. The evidence that was gathered is now being studied by lawyers, not scientists. Stephen Phillips reports In January 1939, a 22-year-...
Their existence is often whispered about in campus folklore. But there really are subterranean passageways meandering under many universities, their presence betrayed by a locked door, an air shaft...
Harriet Swain joins the fungi foragers who risk their taste buds and kidneys in pursuit of treasure Pah. Nick Jardine spits out the nibble of pink and white mushroom violently onto the forest floor....
Brussels, 9 November 2005 Full text of Document 13240/05 Suite of documents 13240/05 Subject: COUNCIL DECISION on the signing, on behalf of the Community, of the Cooperation Agreement on a Civil...
Brussels, 9 November 2005 During a ceremony organised by the European Space Agency and the Dutch government at the European Space Research and Technology Centre in Noordwijk, the first GALILEO...