Brussels, 30 Jun 2005 The second European Science Foundation (ESF) conference on functional genomics and disease will take place in Oslo, Norway, from 6 to 10 September. The conference will be an...
Munich, 29 June 2005 An opposition division of the European Patent Office (EPO) has decided that European patent EP 785216 is to be maintained in amended form. Following a public hearing involving...
Oxford degree honour for Indian premier Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh is to return to his old British university to receive an honorary degree. The leader of the world’s largest democracy...
From: The Office of the Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive Subject: Teaching and Research Staff We have received a number of complaints from the growing number of Research-Only academics in this...
One day senior mathematicians say there is a crisis in the subject that is the bedrock of the sciences, the next day the Higher Education Funding Council for England tells us not to panic and to...
Establishing the Higher Education Academy was never going to be easy. The General Teaching Council, the parallel body for English schools, has had a rocky ride and the HEA's agenda is much broader -...
I doubt that the public is as sceptical as Sir John Sulston suggests in his excellent article "Why won't the public put their faith in scientists?" (June 10). The problem is the intercession of...
Baroness Greenfield is right to stimulate debate about the future of learning ("Book learning out of date", June 17), but her views about books and libraries are dated. Libraries provide innovative...
Macho columnist Frank Furedi can't be scared of a few mums and dads. One wonders if he is more worried that today's conscientious parents might be reading his apparently random articles in The Times...
In "Hey, Prof, my dad wants to see you" and the leader "Parents must keep out" (June 24) you write about demanding parents. I teach a lot of international students who are away from home for the...
It was disappointing to see in your article "Onward march of the no-research regiment" (June 24) that comments by our deputy vice-chancellor, Jeff Lucas, were taken entirely out of context. Bradford...
The articles "20 per cent of staff now just teach" and "Onward march of the no-research regiment" (June 24) are extremely misleading. The figures reflect only a small number of staff on teaching-only...
In Was the Bayeux Tapestry made in France? ("This will really needle les Anglais", June 17), George Beech calls for DNA analysis of bacteria lodged in the threads to determine the place of origin of...
Your article "Bringing meaning to the tables" (June 10) notes the scepticism that newspaper league tables attract in academia. Readers may be interested to learn about The Sunday Times ' method of...
In quoting the modern languages application statistics for Oxford University ("A sorry state of affairs", June 10), the fact that many students apply for joint courses, combining a language with...