No longer family affair
That Piero Tosi, the president of the Italian Rectors' Conference, has been suspended for allegedly favouring his son's appointment to a university hospital ("Siena imbroglio", March 10) will...
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Two sides of debate 1
The article comparing employers' and unions' claims ("Round one: employers and unions square up", March 17) clearly illustrates the different approaches taken by the two sides to the use of data. The...
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Two sides of debate 2
There is no more certain way to exacerbate the higher education pay dispute than for a few vice-chancellors to interfere in what is a UK-wide multi-union action. If they dock the pay of academics...
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Evidence needed
No, Richard Austen-Baker (Letters, March 17) may not point out that the adoption of "look and say", "real books" and "positive marking" in British schools has "had a disastrous effect on pupils'...
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Issues about epic find
I read with some concern Tom Palaima's review of Odysseus Unbound by Robert Bittlestone, James Diggle and John Underhill (March 10). The authors' hypothesis is that Paliki, the western peninsula of...
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Correction
The author of the book 1,000 Doctors (and Many More) Against Vivisection , is Hans Ruesch and not Hand Ruech as stated in Dennis Stuart's letter on March 10.
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Highlighting the immorality of the moral high ground
Anthony Freeman meets Daniel Dennett, who wants religious leaders to examine and disclose the evidence for the teachings of their faiths From the dawn of civilisation, religion stood centre stage in...
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Our cherished friend Liberty reveals herself as a naked lie
We enjoy limitless freedom of choice in the West, right? Wrong, says Slavoj Zizek, who takes a sideways glance at the 'truths' we hold dear In the 1960s and 1970s, it was possible to buy soft-porn...
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Murder, she 'wrote'
When Julia Kristeva's father died, she turned to crime writing. Sara Wajid interrogates her motives and uncovers her belief in inquiry in the face of religious extremism What a gaffe. People cried...
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Our country needs EU
Universities welcome the growing influx of students from the European accession countries. They swell the coffers and enrich campus culture, reports Harriet Swain As part of its student recruitment...
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Clinical trials and tribulations
Mike Clark explores the science and the ethics of the drug tests that left previously fit volunteers seriously ill The fact that six previously healthy volunteers are now lying seriously ill in a...
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Agenda of the Research Working Party, 27 March 2006
Brussels, 22 Mar 2006 Full text of Document 1123/06 1. Specific Programme "Capacities" ­ examination of "Regions of Knowledge", "Research Potential", "Science in Society", "Support to the...
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Science and innovation investment framework for the UK -- 2004-2014: next steps (link)
London, 22 Mar 2006 This discussion paper presents the next steps in taking forward the Government's Science and Innovation Investment Framework 2004-2014. Against the background of increasing global...
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Today's news
Deadlock as bosses issue talks ultimatum Higher education faced a long and increasingly bitter battle over pay this week as unions and employers hit deadlock over negotiations. Geoffrey Copland,...