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David Miliband's father, Ralph, was never a professor at the London School of Economics (In the News, THES , May 31). When he left the LSE in 1972 he was a senior lecturer, having been denied...
David Miliband's father, Ralph, was never a professor at the London School of Economics (In the News, THES , May 31). When he left the LSE in 1972 he was a senior lecturer, having been denied...
Maggie Pearson is wrong not to worry where the funding comes from for medical education ("Harassed, pulled every which way, but committed to her workers", THES , June 7). University-level education...
We were saddened by the suggestion that Middlesex University declined to collaborate with Touro College, New York, on the grounds that it is a Jewish college ("Jewish college snubbed", THES , May 31...
What builds nations, rallies rebellious youth and gays and makes Europeans of Englishmen? It must be football, says Chris Bunting. It was the year of revolution in Europe. In 1848, France, Italy, the...
... that is what Andrew Dilnot wants to offer young academics when he becomes principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford. Huw Richards reports. Chancellor Gordon Brown and other leading politicians might...
A chance chat at a conference on meat production led Rose Frisch to research the link between women's weight and fertility. Jon Marcus reports on her startling findings. There is a distinct irony to...
The fear that British culture is being 'swamped' has arisen from the absurdity of essentialism, says C. W. Watson. In debates about multiculturalism, assimilation and integration in contemporary...
Why is multiculturalism under attack? Experts in the field consider why ministers have turned away from heterogeneity and the absurdities that stoke racial fears. Why has new Labour dumped 'diversity...
The extremist views of some staff and students have made headlines recently. Harriet Swain asks how such opinions should be addressed on university campuses. This is supposed to be the age of apathy...
Text-based analysis has pushed literary history to the sidelines, but we will learn little new without also looking at the history of bestselling fiction, argues Clive Bloom. Literary history has...
Brussels, 12 June 2002 The 'real test' for the G10 medicines group will be the implementation of its newly-released report, according to Enterprise and Information Society Commissioner, Erkki...
Brussels, 12 June 2002 Japan has joined Canada in proposing a site for the planned international experimental fusion reactor, ITER. Spain and France have also sent letters to EU Research Commissioner...
Brussels, 12 June 2002 The European Commission has issued an open call for tenders for a 'mid-term evaluation on the multiannual Community programme to stimulate the development and use of European...
Strasbourg, 12 June 2002 Myrsini ZORBA (PES, GR) Report on the amended proposal for a Council decision on adopting a specific programme for research, technological development and demonstration: "...
Brussels, 12 June 2002 A call for proposals launched by the European Commission for ideas for the forthcoming IST (information society technologies) 2002 event in Copenhagen in November has received...