US versus UK 3
Felipe Fernández-Armesto is wonderful. His is the first completely honest evaluation of the UK and US admissions systems that I have ever read. It is surprising and uplifting. There is a way forward...
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Open to equality
The article "Salford staff claim bosses close ranks" (November 18) combines selective quotations from our recent survey of equality and diversity with some erroneous history to create a misleading...
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Correction
Owing to an editing error, the word "criticism" was omitted from the first line of the letter by Alastair Osborn in last week's Times Higher . It should have read; "I was perturbed to read criticism...
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The might of the military tendency
The role of warfare in 20th-century Britain has been ignored because historians have asked the wrong questions, David Edgerton tells Huw Richards David Edgerton is well accustomed to people...
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Correction
An editing error in the second sentence of Charles Townshend's article last week altered the meaning. The sentence should have read: "It was a proposal that was deeply subversive of the British legal...
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Who will have the last word on digital frontier?
Mandy Garner observes the flurry and potential fallout stirred up by Google's e-tail aspirations November has seen the trusty tugboat of academic publishing buffeted by a tidal surge of online book...
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Spike story - before they spike you
You're a political journalist on the trail of a story. Do you toe the party line or risk writing your own death warrant? Ivor Gaber faces the tricky task of training reporters in war-torn Uganda "The...
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Despair of the debt defaulters
Top-up fees are looming, but students are already finding themselves in terrible financial predicaments. Michael North reports Steve was in the final year of his degree when his life started to fall...
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Draft Council conclusions on Commission's communication on common approach to research and innovation (link)
Brussels, 23 November 2005 Full text of Document 14604/05 Suite of documents 14604/05 No. Cion doc.: 13606/05 ECOFIN 319 RECH 196 COMPET 220 SOC 406 No. prev. doc. 14163/05 RECH 206 COMPET 238 ECOFIN...
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Commission authorises Danish state aid to compensate for losses due to presence of GMOs in conventional and organic crops
Brussels, 23 November 2005 The European Commission has today authorised Denmark to pay compensation in cases where farmers with conventional or organic production suffer economic losses when...
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US calls for more formal partnership with EU on research evaluation
Brussels, 23 Nov 2005 When it comes to evaluating the effectiveness and contribution of research and innovation systems, we are currently operating in an 'information vacuum', according to Bill...
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European semantic web conference, Montenegro
Brussels, 23 Nov 2005 The third European semantic web conference, ESWC 2006, will take place in Budva, Montenegro, from 11 to 14 June 2006. ESWC 2006 is sponsored by SDK, a group of three European...
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Summit for the Future 2006 - Risk
Brussels, 23 Nov 2005 The second global 'Summit for the Future 2006', will take place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, from 3 to 5 May 2006. Organised by the Club of Amsterdam, the event will bring...
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Today's news
Scientist who cloned Dolly 'bullied Asian colleague' The scientist who cloned Dolly the sheep was accused yesterday of bullying an Asian colleague in a £1 million race discrimination case. Ian Wilmut...
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Latest research news
Relentless rise of Aids as HIV infections top 40m The number of people living with HIV worldwide has exceeded 40 million for the first time, with more than 2.6 million adults and nearly 600,000...