Get set to do some number crunching
Computational Chemistry and Molecular Modeling: Principles and ApplicationsAuthors: K.I. Ramachandran, G. Deepa and K. NambooriEdition: FirstPublisher: SpringerPages: 397Price: £55.99ISBN...
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Old favourite keeps young rivals at bay
C Programming: A Modern ApproachAuthor: K.N. KingEdition: SecondPublisher: W.W. Norton & CompanyPages: 832Price: £42.99ISBN 9780393979503C is now a rather venerable programming language. It was...
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A Concise Introduction to Image Processing using C++
A Concise Introduction to Image Processing using C++Authors: Meiqinq Wang and Choi-Hong LaiEdition: FirstPublisher: Chapman & Hall/CRCPages: 264Price: £39.99ISBN 9781584888970This textbook gives...
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Computer Algebra with Symbolic C++
Computer Algebra with Symbolic C++Authors: Yorick Hardy, Kiat Shi Tan and Willi-Hans SteebEdition: FirstPublisher: World ScientificPages: 600Price: £51.00 and £28.00ISBN 9789812823600 and 33617This...
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From where I sit - Olympic spirit is golden legacy
They are known as the "bird's-nest generation", products of China's one-child policy who are used to living comfortable lives as the centre of attention in their families.But for the many students...
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We will not be moved!
"Bring them all on." That was the bellicose reaction of our Vice-Chancellor to last week's announcement by Universities Secretary John Denham that areas of England are interested in establishing new...
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Equality strategy needed
Kevin Fong seeks a middle ground between affirmative action and passivity
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Leader: Prejudice by any other name
Gender and ethnicity are subject to constant scrutiny, but middle and upper-class dominance of academia must be challenged
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Ellie Scrivens, 1954-2008
Ellie Scrivens, director of the Health Care Standards Unit at Keele University, has died.Born in Solihull in 1954, Professor Scrivens was educated at Malvern Hall school, the University of Exeter and...
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University of Oxford - Biomedical study underwritten
Qualcomm, a company that develops advanced wireless technologies, has announced a £300,000 donation to the University of Oxford. The money will be used to establish four scholarships to allow...
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Funding aids provide fairness and diversity 1
I want to make it absolutely clear that all universities and colleges that charge full fees provide bursary support for students from lower-income backgrounds ("No awards for equity", 20 November)....
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Funding aids provide fairness and diversity 2
Your article on support for students draws attention to Lancaster University's scholarship scheme, which rewards matriculating students using criteria related to academic merit.What the article fails...
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Access and Oxbridge
I'm glad Alan Ryan does not think it is necessarily a bad thing to "invest in universities that have high failure rates", but he presumably didn't mean that has been their defining achievement ("One...
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Robust but not complacent
The Grant Thornton report states that Aston University could be vulnerable in the event of a downturn in overseas student income ("Lower interest from abroad would push seven into red", 20 November)....
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Unworthy attack
Richard House's attack on Edzard Ernst was unpleasant to read, consisting almost entirely of ad hominem sneering unworthy of an academic in any "paradigm" (Letters, 20 November). I imagine I am quite...