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Secrecy and paranoia over experiments on animals predates the radical animal rights movement ("Scare tactics silence science", February 6). In 1965, the government's Littlewood committee noted that...
Secrecy and paranoia over experiments on animals predates the radical animal rights movement ("Scare tactics silence science", February 6). In 1965, the government's Littlewood committee noted that...
To portray opponents of Cambridge's primate laboratory as terrorists is a grotesque misrepresentation of the truth. The public inquiry rejected the proposal because the university failed to show that...
Your report "Edexcel failures spark concern", (February 13) betrays a lack of understanding of how the quality "regime" works. Edexcel's primary role is to design the course structure (the...
Bikhu Parekh's article ("Love is... desirable but it's by no means a 'right'", February 6) is a mish-mash of unjustified claims, both to knowledge and to moral certitude. He includes in human rights...
Bikhu Parekh makes sensible points about the fractured discourse of rights but directly contradicts much of his earlier writing. His dissertation was on Bentham, but he has been promulgating group...
I was glad to see the campaign against racism in mental health services highlighted (In the News, February 13). Since the mid-1980s, our psychotherapy training has tried to be sensitive to all...
Members of the Association of University Teachers and the National Union of Students ("Strike is likely as AUT vote closes", February 13) will be standing shoulder to shoulder in the traditional...
It says a lot for the dire state of maths education when The Times Higher puts the entire corpus of mathematics on a par with the writings of one 16th-century Italian diplomat (Free books, January,...
Trafficking of humans is a global crisis, writes Harold Hongju Koh, but there are ways in which we can stem the flow. The US State Department's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices identify at...
Intelligence on Iraq was the victim of spin, argues Philip Davies, as politicians took a selective approach to the presentation of the facts. Britain is facing the fourth inquiry into the war with...
Former BBC editor Niall Dickson was seen as a surprising choice to lead a health research think-tank. Terry Philpot looks at what he has to offer the King's Fund. I hope you'll be kind. I've only...
By explaining the mechanics of a dropped goal or a javelin throw, lecturers aim to turn young people on to engineering. Matthew Baker reports. Cashing in on England's Rugby World Cup success has...
Former Liverpool football star Craig Johnston is part of a movement that is revolutionising sport and giving engineering a new image, writes Ben Carlish. His new football boot, dubbed "The Pig", is...
Stung by a mistake in estimating how long a corpse had been buried, Bill Bass set out to get data on how bodies decompose - by leaving them in a field and watching them decay. Geoff Watts reports. We...
Trafficking of humans is a global crisis, writes Harold Hongju Koh, but there are ways in which we can stem the flow. The US State Department's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices identify at...