Alan Sked, UK Independence party The notion of a "democratic deficit" is a piece of Europhile propaganda assuming acceptance of European union as a political aim. For those of us who see no need for...
Ben Hall, Centre for European Reform The European Union is a complicated hybrid, where national governments have decided that different forms of collective action will produce better results for...
Europe is the election's neglected issue, says Brian Brivati. The ghost at the feast of this election is Europe. Despite the prompting of anti-European ginger groups, the main parties resist full...
Yves Beon, a slave labourer forced to build V1 and V2 rockets, tells Stella Hughes about his bid to discredit his former German masters who went on to run the Nasa space project A memoir by Yves Beon...
University of East London Kerry Hamilton did not have a train set as a child nor did she play with Dinky toys. Until very recently these facts would have damaged irreparably her credibility in the...
University College, London Honorary fellowships: Thomas Bingham, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales and formermaster of the rolls, visitor of UCL (1992-96); Patricia Easterling, regius professor...
University of Luton The university's programme ofinaugural lectures will include:Brian Birch on "The Proper Interaction between Academia and industry for Analytical Science"on May 7 at 4.30pm Room 1...
The 糖心Vlog Statistics Agency's findings for 1995/6 reveal that: * 54.4 per cent of first degree qualifiers who gained a first class honours degree were men. * 64.3 per cent of first degree...
From Edward James THE CASUAL reader of "The Virtual Past Master" (THES, April 4), about Niall Ferguson and his counterfactual history, might be forgiven for believing that the reporter thought he had...
A NEW galaxy close to our own has been spotted by astronomers hunting through photographs of the night sky. The Antlia Galaxy appears so dim relative to the night sky that until now astromoners...
Huw Richards takes a hard look at what the parties are offering in further and higher education CONSERVATIVE * Teacher training curriculum to stress traditional methods * Learning credits for...
Helena Flusfeder reports on compression that uses noise to improve quality Researchers at Tel Aviv University have found that noise can improve music. But it has to be the right kind of noise....
(Photograph) - Astronomers at Queen Mary and Westfield College, London, and Queen's University, Belfast, are studying Comet Hale-Bopp as it passes the sun. According to Iwan Williams of QMW, the...
THE UNIVERSITY of Kent is considering heavy cuts to combat a funding shortfall of Pounds 2 million, and whether to create a development fund for staff and research initiatives. An internal document...
THE DUAL support system of funding research is an effective way of combatting universities' understandable though potentially damaging short-term pursuit of project grants, according to Higher...