Tuber tragedy
Your report and jolly cartoon (For the record, THES, July 28) concerning the fate of the Russian potatoes collected by the plant geneticist N. I. Vavilov and his co-workers fails to bring out the...
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Agreement defended
The national casualisation agreement is not perfect but some of the criticisms made of it - and of Natfhe for agreeing to it - are inaccurate (Letters, THES, July 28). Far from not aiming to reduce...
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Tongue tide
Your correspondent ("Losing a language to repair the past", THES, July 21) suggests that Afrikaans universities are subjected to ideological and political pressures to introduce teaching in English....
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Expenses legit
David Alexander can be reassured that the payment of expenses to the wife of the head of Surrey European Management School (Letters, THES, July 28) is legitimate. The transaction was properly...
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Feasting on history
Brian Brivati need have no fear about moving from histories of the Labour Party to histories of the doughnut ("Ringing the changes", THES, July 28). The respected historian of northwest England John...
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Cost of subject review
The Pounds 75,000 estimate for a single subject review (News, THES, July 21) is surely inaccurate. The real cost of a visit is much greater. For example, one carefully monitored single-subject visit...
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Missing: students in the soaps
Tom Wilson offers scriptwriters advice on getting higher education into the plot. A Martian seeing British television for the first time would form a strange view of student life. EastEnders has had...
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One jab for millions
MP Evan Harris explains why he has volunteered as a guinea-pig in trials of a new Aids vaccine My decision to volunteer as a human guinea-pig - in a trial of a new Aids vaccine - is neither brave nor...
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Why I ... think that alternatives to therapeutic cloning should also be explored
Richard Gardner. Henry Dale research professor of the Royal Society in the zoology department, Oxford University Chair of Royal Society working group on therapeutic cloning 7While I believe that...
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What the experts say about the white paper
* Colin Blakemore Professor of physiology Oxford University If you ask the British public whether science is a good thing or a bad thing, the majority would say it is bad. That is a sad reflection on...
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Karate kicks are kids' stuff
It might look a dangerous pursuit, but researchers have found that karate may be safer for children than many other sports. Merrilee Zetaruk, director of the paediatric sports and dance medicine...
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Ozone turns on ageing genes
Ozone, an important constituent of smog, has a direct effects on the genes associated with the ageing process in plants. It has long been known that exposure to ozone speeds ageing in plants,...
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Goose that lost the golden egg
Twenty-five years ago, two Cambridge scientists won the Nobel prize for medicine for a paper on monoclonal antibodies. But their technique was not patented and US drugs firms reaped the billion-...
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White paper raises a cheer
A Pounds 1 billion boost for science is only a first step, Paul Nightingale says Last week's Excellence and Opportunity white paper is a step in the right direction for British science. Instead of...
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Current sources of research funding
Each week this section lists funds available for academic researchers. Items for inclusion should be submitted to research@thes.co.uk DEPT OF ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT ANDTHE REGIONS www.technopolis.co....