Letter: Healthy capital gains declared
We would not dispute many of the points Martin Ince makes in his article about the development of medical research in London ("Health fails to bring in cheque", THES , October ). The capital is...
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Letter: Refuge research
One minor correction to Adam James's piece on our homicide in Britain research ("It really was murder at the office today, darling", THES , November 3). We did not "help set up Scotland's first women...
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Letter: Bitter divorce
Those of us concerned at the impending, if not already total, divorce between teaching and research (Letters, THES , November 3) will be further depressed by the recommendations of the Higher...
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Letter: Cambridge rings in
Gill Evans (Soapbox, THES , October 20), Phil Baty: "Cambridge tackles ethics code after Vodafone row'' ( THES , October 20) and Andrew M. Colman (Readers' Reactions, THES , October ) all attack Sir...
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Letter: Accountability doubts
The "Cameron report" clears Imperial College of victimisation of Peter Dawson for raising concerns in the public interest about protections of patient safety (Whistleblowers, THES , November 3). The...
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Letter: Speaking volumes
Your front-page headline "Poor leaders are crippling UK colleges" ( THES , November 3) does not reflect what we heard the Further Education Funding Council chief inspector, Jim Donaldson, say at the...
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Letter: Saying is believing?
Diana Warwick, chief executive of the Committee of Vice-chancellors and Principals, is quoted as saying that undergraduate students "who pay fees, according to the criteria, should be able to pay,...
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Latino lingo is the ploy to win Spanish ayes
Bush and Gore spoke Spanish to woo the US's largest immigrant community. Clare Mar-Molinero explains why. Something is happening to Spanish. The number of people speaking it is growing and, more...
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The way to avoid being institutionalised
You do not have to be a full-time academic working under the auspices of an institute to publish serious works of research. John Davies spoke to authors who have forged a reputation and made a good...
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Higher Channels
A "Who'll Save Africa?" season begins with The Hunger Business (Saturday and Sunday 8.00 C4). Beginning with the Nigeria-Biafra conflict of the 1960s and the aid effort that prolonged the war, the...
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Daily TV & radio guide - Friday
(All time pm unless stated.) Performance on 3 (7.30 R3). A weekend celebrating the centenary of Aaron Copland's birth begins with a concert live from the Barbican in London and an interval talk by...
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Cheap food, poor policy
The BSE crisis showed that health has been the missing link in the food chain. Now, writes Tim Lang, it is time for the government to enshrine public wellbeing at the heart of an open policy-making...
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Who said your daddy's daddy won the West with the help of a gun?
Michael Bellesiles's suggestion that US gun culture is an 'invented tradition' has made him the gun lobby's prime target, Tim Cornwell writes. Hate email arrives in Michael Bellesiles's mailbox in...
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Latest UK news
Chancellor gives research a boost Chancellor Gordon Brown has given research and innovation a helping hand in his pre-budget statement. Mr Brown said there would be consultation on tax relief for...
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From today's UK papers
FINANCIAL TIMES The government will announce an extra £600 million in funding to back the business-led Learning and Skills Council — the biggest reform in national training efforts since...