Testing times
Alison Wolf (Opinion, June 10) clearly indicates why comparisons of test results and educational standards over time are not normally valid. The learning environment is changing with time, and score...
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Biting point
The report on the growing shortage of clinical academics faced by UK universities (News, June 10) made two highly significant points. The piece noted that the number of dental academics is in...
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Schools for scandal
Those such as Nigel Probert (Letters, June 17) who talk about "the failure of comprehensive schools" like grammar schools but say nothing about secondary modern schools. The problem with the old...
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Nuts to stereotypes
In an edition (June 10) that highlighted distrust of scientists and the difficulties of recruiting science undergraduates, the article on laboratory teaching was illustrated with a "nutty professor...
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A lot of hot air
The article by Godfrey Boyle ("Nukes not necessary", Soapbox, June 10) paints an unrealistic picture of what Britain could achieve by copying Germany in utilising wind power. A study by the...
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Compromising issue
I was not dismissed by the University of East London and I am not pursuing a claim for unfair dismissal ("Lecturer wins landmark legal case", June 17). I took a routine early retirement offer. Anyone...
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Big Mother is watching you
'Helicopter parents' are hovering over students and gunning for academics, warn Stephen Phillips and Michael North There was a time when university was about young people moving away from home and...
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'Some of you will be aware that there has been speculation, much of it misleading and inaccurate, in regard to my personal life...'
'Some of you will be aware that there has been speculation, much of it misleading and inaccurate, in regard to my personal life.The source of the comment is a matter in my personal life which does...
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How royal titbits kept the newshounds at bay
As Prince William graduates from St Andrews, Olga Wojtas reflects on the media storm that wasn't - unless you count an embarrassing uncle. For four years, St Andrews University has refused to comment...
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Campus curiosities
If Edinburgh University postgraduate Piers Sellers had had his way, the remains of an ancient pair of trousers, reputedly once worn by the 16th-century Calvinist firebrand John Knox, would be...
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Finalised Text of a Council Directive and a Council Recommendation Concerning the Admission of Third-Country Nationals for the Purposes of Scientific Research (link)
Brussels, 22 Jun 2005 Full text of Document 9288/05 Suite of documents 9288/05 Subject: COUNCIL DIRECTIVE on a specific procedure for admitting third-country nationals for the purposes of scientific...
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Euratom/Japan Co-Operation and Research Agreement in the Nuclear Field - Proposed Modifications in View of Signature of the Agreement (link)
Brussels, 22 Jun 2005 Full text of Document 10329/05 Suite of documents 10329/05 Subject: Euratom/Japan co-operation and research agreement in the nuclear field - proposed modifications in view of...
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Agenda of the 302nd Meeting of the Scientific and Technical Research Committee (CREST), 1 July 2005
Brussels, 22 Jun 2005 Full text of Document 2298/05 Chairman: Dr. Achilleas MITSOS, European Commission, Director General 1. Adoption of the Draft Agenda 2. Approval of the Draft Summary Conclusions...
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Consultation on Measures for the Simplification of Participation in FP7 -- Comments by 31 August (link)
Brussels, 22 Jun 2005 The aim of this consultation is to provide an opportunity for all researchers, but especially those within the EU (and Associated Countries), to offer their views on the 10...
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Today's news
Academy laments engineer shortage The UK will drop further behind other countries unless it can bring more young people into engineering, Lord Broers, president of the Royal Academy of Engineering,...