Answering back
When I began my PhD at Glasgow University in 1999, I appreciated that the "reality" of researching male age-discrepant/intergenerational sexualities and relationships would likely prove a hotly...
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Core support 1
Contrary to your front page report last week ("Rescue for top-rated staff only", November 26), Exeter University has no plans to close mining engineering courses. The Camborne School of Mines, now...
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Core support 2
"A Government promise to protect nationally important but vulnerable academic subjects may extend only to the top research-intensive university departments." This is encouraging - it suggests that...
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Please save school
The Royal Institute of British Architects views with great concern the proposal by Cambridge University to close its department of architecture ("Thriving school faces the axe", November 26). We...
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Still happy together 1
After reading "Colleges warm to university divorce" (November 26), one might believe that the foundation-degree partnerships that blossomed during the first flush of youth are now characterised by...
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Still happy together 2
You painted a highly misleading picture of the relationship between higher and further education partners last week. The implication of the article's opening sentence is that all such partnerships...
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Too few fighters?
I know that it has been many years since I studied Caesar's Gallic Wars , but surely it takes more than 11 soldiers to form a cohort ("Soldiers occupy campus", November 26)? John Cooke Reading...
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Beijing makes those tills ring
UK universities are racing to enter China, but will they get 'arrows in their backs' from a government that disdains free inquiry? Chris Bunting reports Dominic Houlihan has a simple way of...
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'We fight for ourrights inch by inch'
UK universities are racing to enter China, but will they get 'arrows in their backs' from a government that disdains free inquiry? Chris Bunting reports Adam Roberts remembers Xu Zerong as a quiet...
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Will plague and pox be the weapons of choice in future?
Lessons from the Soviet biological weapons programme are relevant to today's efforts to prevent the offensive use of disease, says John Hart The threat of biological warfare has been much debated...
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'Tis the season to be jolly, and a little perplexed
Living in halls is absolute bliss but what does a more mature man do when the time comes to uproot? Christmas decorations have gone up in our shared kitchen. It is a reminder that my room in halls is...
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Fight for food ethic all can stomach
Twentieth-century productionism left us overfed, underfed or badly fed. Tim Lang looks at the new battle for mouths and minds At every policy level - local, national, regional, global - a pattern of...
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Today's news
Pair may undercut pack with £2,000 fee Two universities are considering charging top-up fees of less than £3,000 a year in a move that would shatter the national consensus that all institutions will...
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Introductory Note on a Proposed Council Decision Concerning the Placing on the Market, in Accordance with Directive 2001/18/EC, of GM Oiled Rape Product (Brassica Napus L., Gt73 Line) (link)
Brussels, 01 Dec 2004 Full text of Document 12857/1/04 Revision 01 Suite of documents 12857/1/04 No. Cion prop.: 12343/04 Subject: Proposal for a Council Decision concerning the placing on the market...
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Van der Hoeven outlines Council's four priorities for FP7
Brussels, 01 Dec 2004 Ministers had four principal demands when discussing the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) for research at the recent Competitiveness Council, according to Dutch Minister for...