Does allowing faith a more prominent role in education mean allowing unreason and intolerance on to the curriculum? Steve Fuller argues that intelligent design shows how the Bible has been a powerful...
Harry Brighouse believes the opposite but would welcome faith-based schools into the mainstream to curb such excesses of religious zealotry One of the many aims of the Government's new education...
... Richard Evans professor of modern history, Cambridge What did you think of government policy? Winning the General Election was the best thing the Government did. It guaranteed the introduction of...
A year ago, presidential election protests shook Ukraine. Vera Rich, who observed the rerun of those elections, returns to find a nation reborn, but its personality as yet unformed On November 22,...
It's about time British academics blasted off into the blogosphere, argue Andrew Oswald and Mary Visser It was a warm November afternoon in 1477 when the trouble began. England's first printed book,...
... Sally Feldman , dean of the School of Media, Arts and Design, University of Westminster What did you think of government policy? It created an obstacle course for international students trying to...
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Universities hit by boom in bogus degrees online The reputation of British universities abroad is being damaged by companies peddling bogus degrees, the Government’s quality watchdog has claimed. The...
Fresh doubt cast on Korean scientist's stem cell breakthrough South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-Suk's groundbreaking stem cell research was cast into fresh doubt today as a former collaborator said he...
Brussels, 20 December 2005 Full text of Document 14601/05 Suite of documents 14601/05 No. Cion prop.: 8087/05 RECH 80 ATO 45 COMPET 68 CODEC 266 Subject: Draft Decision of the European Parliament and...
Brussels, 20 December 2005 The European Commission today presents “100 Technology offers stemming from EU Biotechnology RTD results”, a catalogue of biotechnology developments...
Brussels, 20 December 2005 The European Commission has sent final written warnings to Germany and France for failure to comply with judgements by the European Court of Justice from 2004. Despite the...
Brussels, 20 Dec 2005 The UK's Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has published a report on research priorities relating to the possible risks posed by nanotechnology The...
Brussels, 20 Dec 2005 The Beagle 2 probe, part of the European Space Agency's Mars Express mission, was designed to search for signs of life on the surface of the Red Planet. However, ever since it...