Childcare? Don't care
The article "Childcare costs eat deeply into pay packet" (July 7) mentioned the salary sacrifice scheme designed to help meet the costs of childcare. Unfortunately, I work for a Catholic college that...
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Don't dilute discipline
I read with amusement and concern the article "Geography breaks out of its borders" (July 21), which consisted of a sycophantic celebration of the recruitment strategy of the geography department at...
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Fighting the war on dogma
Universities combat extremism by exposing untruth and teaching critical thinking, argues Bhikhu Parekh Over the past four decades, the unusual pressures to which universities have been subjected have...
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Hooked after a whiff of salt water
Trevor Norton, marine ecologist, kicks off a series on academics' pastimes and how they feed into their research At school my speciality was failing exams, but television changed my life forever when...
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A history of afflicting the comfortable
Huw Richards attends a 'witness seminar' on the Church of England's radical 1980s report on inner cities Although the term was not widely used then, the Church of England's Faith in the City (FITC)...
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Des res for the far from skint student
En suite, 'hospitality teams', gleaming show suites - Harriet Swain charts the rise in demand for upmarket digs This month, a new kind of shop opened in central London. It caters exclusively for...
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10.30am finish, trip to Chianti, lunch on deck. It's a hard life
Our monthly guide to some of the conferences taking place around the world Luxury liners, day trips, exotic locations. Summer conferences are as close as you get to a holiday, says Harriet Swain This...
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Conference watch: August
* The 40th International Congress of the International Society for Applied Ethology will look at animal behaviour. Papers include dogs' social hierarchy in the household and "Friendsheep? Non-...
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Profile: Frans de Waal
Stephen Phillips meets the academic who believes that animals can feel empathy When renowned primatologist Frans de Waal observed chimpanzees literally kissing and making up after fighting he was...
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Today's news
Oxford to end colleges' freedom to pick students Oxford colleges are to lose the right they have enjoyed for 800 years to admit the students they want to teach. Instead, they are to be confined to...
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Revised proposal for a European Institute of Technology is more focused but still lacks clarity, says EuroScience
Brussels, 26 Jul 2006 The reworked proposal by the European Commission on the European Institute of Technology (EIT) is more focused, according to EuroScience, but still fails to provide clarity on...
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Draft Summary Conclusions of the 309th Meeting of the Scientific and Technical Research Committee (CREST) Held in Joensuu (Finland) on 5/6 July 2006 (extract)
Brussels, 26 Jul 2006 Full text of Document 1205/06 Suite of documents 1205/06 Subject: DRAFT SUMMARY CONCLUSIONS OF THE 309th MEETING OF THE SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL RESEARCH COMMITTEE (CREST) HELD...
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Latest research news
Nicotine 'sobers up' drunk rats A new study helps to explain why smokers tend to have boozier nights out than non-smokers. The work, done in rats, shows that a heavy dose of nicotine can cut blood-...
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Today's news
Business looks to recruit Chinese students Businesses are turning to MBA students from China because they believe too few British graduates have Chinese language skills, according to a report....
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Seventh Research Framework Programmes - EC and Euratom: Competitiveness Council, 24 July
Brussels, 25 July 2006 47th Council Meeting - Competitiveness (Internal Market, Industry and Research). Brussels, 24 July 2006 Provisional version The Council reached, by qualified majority, a...