Brussels, 15 Dec 2005 One hundred technology offers resulting from EU funded biotechnology projects are profiled in a new brochure published by the European Commission. As highlighted by Science and...
Brussels, 15 Dec 2005 The fifth international food safety conference, 'Enhancing transparency from farm to fork', will take place in Paris, France, from 1 to 3 February. Organised by CIES, a global...
Ailing Middlesex makes 175 staff redundant Middlesex University is making 175 voluntary redundancies - including 33 academic staff - in a bid to save £10 million in operating expenses, the university...
University of Poppleton Once again, it's time for some of the university's movers and shakers to select their Books of the Year. The Vice-Chancellor There's not been much time for reading (or indeed...
Imperial College's decision to leave the University of London has led some observers to speculate yet again that the federal university has had its day. Not only might other colleges follow Imperial'...
So David Guest believes that, in terms of "wellbeing", those who are on temporary contracts are certainly not "worse off" than those on permanent contracts ("End the 'jobs for life' culture",...
Ending jobs for life in academia would be a disaster as we would lose competitiveness: industry-style contracts would not lead to better research. As long as the US has jobs for life, the UK would be...
Jobs for life, or decent, stable, working rights and conditions? The paper by Louise Ackers and Liz Oliver urges moving academics on to insecure, compulsory casualised contracts. Oliver and Ackers...
The staggeringly arrogantJattack on intelligent design (ID) by a cabal of zoologists suggests that, like most biologists, few of them have read any modern versions of ID (Opinion, December 9). Design...
I share your respondents' distaste for intelligent design and their dismay that it should be taught in schools. But one of your contributors stated that "evolution has stood the test of time". If he...
I'm not a creationist (presumably by accident rather than by design) but I think I recognise an appeal to a community's sacred scripture when I hear it. "As Karl Popper tells us, if you can't prove...
In his review of Michael Ruse's The Evolution-Creation Struggle , Harry Collins makes a number of incisive points (Books, December 9). But he takes Richard Dawkins to task for his excessive "...
Your leader claims that unions are "predating" negotiations with "belligerent noises" when there is an opportunity for a "fresh start" with the advent of the University and College Union ("Unity...
Evidently Gary Day has much to learn about cycling (Columnist, December 9). He should discard the drooping coat that gets entangled in his bicycle and invest in some cycling attire that is fit for...
Is University College London really planning to leave half of its staff out of the next research assessment exercise ("UCL memo 'expects' 3*s", December 9)? In the 2001 RAE roughly half the research...