Hunt on wrong track 3
Presumably the poaching of entire research teams ahead of the research assessment exercise is confined to science departments. Humanities departments are still rejecting applicants who have published...
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Communal research
I have been reading recent letters and articles about the web and plagiarism. While not wishing to deny that there is a problem, I find myself asking whether there hasn't been a qualitative change in...
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Positive on IP reforms
Sir John Sulston is rightly concerned that we need to get our scholarly work into the public domain ("Laureate warns over intellectual property reform", November 25), and Cambridge has gone further...
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Lessons for the NHS
The announcement that more National Health Service trusts are desperate for money again leads to the questions of how and why? In 1950, the annual cost of the NHS was about £350 million: the monetary...
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The love that speaks its name in Hello!
When Michael Jackson dangled his small child out of a hotel window, did his fans desert him? Of course not, says Terry Eagleton, and therein lies the nature of celebrity Celebrities go a long way...
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Freedom is first fatality as a new iron curtain falls
Bill Bowring, a human rights lawyer, was deported from Russia and fears for NGOs in the country At 5am on November 15, I was stopped by Russian passport control and prevented from entering the...
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Helping the poor to crash fat cats' party
The world trading system is a club for rich nations, says Andrew Charlton, who charts his journey from street protester to co-author with a Nobel laureate It was 5.30 in the morning but the streets...
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A pilgrimage to humanity's heartland
The centrepiece of a £31m tourist attraction is the work of South African academics who helped reveal the first humans, writes Karen MacGregor The bulldozers were still busy at Maropeng, a tourist...
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Today's news
Schemes to spot brightest state pupils 'highly dubious' Top universities are wasting precious time and money on inefficient and ineffective schemes to spot the brightest pupils in state schools,...
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Latest research news
Race against time to study mysterious new species A mysterious creature has been discovered deep in an endangered rainforest, the wildlife charity WWF said yesterday. The animal, which is believed to...
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Today's news
Academics welcome terror bill concessions Academics have welcomed moves by the Government to protect scientists and lecturers from prosecution under the new terrorism bill. Jonathan Whitehead, the...
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Commission's case against UK for failing to tell public about radiological emergency in breach of EU directive when HMS Tireless (nuclear submarine) visited Gibraltar should be dismissed with costs: o
Luxembourg, 1 December 2005 C-65/04, Commission of the European Communities v United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Opinion of Advocate General Geelhoed on 1 December 2005 (link to...
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Verification reports under Euratom Treaty compiled in 2004 about Spain (links)
Brussels, 5 December 2005 Verification reports under the terms of Article 35 of the Euratom Treaty Trillo, Guadalajara, Spain, June to 2 July 2004 Main findings (36 KB) Technical Report (174 KB)...
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Draft decisions on FP7 for research, technological development and demonstration activities and for nucelar research and training activities 2007-13 (link)
Brussels, 6 December 2005 Full text of Document 15062/05 Suite of documents 15062/05 No. Cion prop.: 8087/05 RECH 80 ATO 45 COMPET 68 CODEC 266 Subject: Draft Decision of the European Parliament and...
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Evidence on Avian Influence given to the UK Parliament Science and Technology Committee by UK Scientists
London, 06 Dec 2005 Uncorrected Oral Evidence 30 November 2005 Avian Influenza Uncorrected transcript of Oral Evidence given by Professor Colin Blakemore, Chief Executive Officer, Medical Research...