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Bath University... would like to correct some misconceptions in Andrew Linzey's article. The Animal Procedures Committee is not a rubber-stamping exercise but an independent body established by the...
Bath University... would like to correct some misconceptions in Andrew Linzey's article. The Animal Procedures Committee is not a rubber-stamping exercise but an independent body established by the...
Alison Wolf seems to have completely misunderstood Cambridge University's admissions process and our reasons for supporting the Tomlinson recommendations, to judge by her opinion piece last week. We...
In his review of Michael Millgate's Thomas Hardy: A Biography Revisited (March 18), Terry Eagleton describes Hardy's first wife as "snobbish" and "imperious". I would not disagree with this...
Your front-page article on pensions ("Pensions crisis may threaten pay rises", March 18) failed to mention the contribution holidays and cuts to pension funds that many employers, including...
The policing of plagiarism is becoming a big part of my role as a tutor in higher education. I thought my experiences of this had reached a nadir last year when a first-year student submitted an...
In the battle to attract students ("Cheap travel and free laptops", March 18), has any institution considered offering a first-class education? John Beckford Newbury
Northumbria University's minimum bursary for the poorest students is £550 - not £300. The average bursary will be £800, the maximum Pounds 1,300. Peter Slee Pro vice-chancellor (student affairs)...
Michael North explores the hoo-ha around the controversial Catholic group Opus Dei and how it operates on campuses Peter Brown is annoyed. He feels he has been stitched up by a national newspaper...
Diana Evans, the latest literary sensation from the University of East Anglia's MA in creative writing, thinks talent can't be taught, says Sara Wajid The novel 26a is painfully sexy in publishing...
The experience of a history professor refused entry to the US under new anti-terror laws is a blow to all those who support the free exchange of ideas, says Toby Muse Early in 2004, Dora Maria Tellez...
Web-based auctions are helping cash-strapped US universities find global customers for even the most outlandish surplus goods, reports Stephen Phillips Pedal-powered submarines, a rat guillotine,...
Our monthly guide to some of the conferences taking place around the world Physicists like their subject caffeinated, but they will be offered some frothier takes on Einstein, finds Harriet Swain So...
Our monthly guide to some of the conferences taking place around the world Robin Lane Fox, reader in ancient history at Oxford University, will talk about his experiences of advising on Oliver Stone'...
Our monthly guide to some of the conferences taking place around the world Conference: Archaeology at the Interface, Bradford University, April 13-16 What's it about? This is the 2005 UK...
Brussels, 23 Mar 2005 The European Research Council (ERC) Identification Committee submitted its interim report to the Commissioner for Science and Research, Janez Potoc(nik on 21 March 2005. The...