New Member States set for rapid broadband growth
Brussels, 08 Sep 2004 A new analysis of broadband penetration rates in the EU has concluded that while the availability of high-speed Internet services in the new Member States currently lags far...
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Developments in applied general equilibrium energy and climate policy modelling - call for tenders
Brussels, 08 Sep 2004 The European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) has published a call for tenders for further developments in applied general equilibrium energy and climate policy...
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Modelling the concentrations of chemicals in emissions - call for tenders
Brussels, 08 Sep 2004 The European Environment Agency has published a call for tenders for a feasibility study on modelling environmental concentrations of chemicals from emission data. The aim of...
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Corrigendum - private sector interaction in the decision making processes of public research
Brussels, 08 Sep 2004 The European Commission has published a corrigendum to its call for tenders on private sector interaction in the decision making processes of public research. Tender documents...
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Corrigendum - examining the design of research programmes
Brussels, 08 Sep 2004 The European Commission has published a corrigendum for its call for tenders on examining the design of research programmes. The deadline for requesting tender documents has...
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Laurie Taylor column
From : The Office of the Vice-Chancellor To : All Academic Staff I understand that questions have been raised about academic pay at Poppleton after an analysis by The Times Higher of average salaries...
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Leader: Better late than never for debate
Next week's annual meeting of Universities UK should have been a quiet affair -the calm before the storm, perhaps, with vice-chancellors celebrating good news from the spending review and keeping...
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Leader: The limits of openness
The British Association for the Advancement of Science did well to choose "responsibility and science" as the theme for its meeting this week in Exeter. In the modern world, people are surrounded by...
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Easier? Maybe it's better taught 1
Some A levels are easier to obtain than others, according to research by Peter Tymms, ("Study calls for grading reform", September 3). In particular, sociology is identified as "easier" than 16 other...
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Easier? Maybe it's better taught 2
Some A-level subjects are easier than others based on comparisons with GCSE results? Are we assuming all GCSEs are equally difficult but not all A levels? This could go on for some time. Richard Kamm...
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Disputed words 2
Your report on the pulping of an official history by London Metropolitan University came as no surprise ("Book pulped at LondonMet", August ). The university appears to make a habit of banning books...
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Disputed words 1
Even by your standards, the article concerning the indus-trial dispute at this university marks a new low in journal-istic integrity and cannot go unchallenged ("V-c: I will sack rebel staff",...
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Don't do as we do
John Wakeford (Letters, September 3) is right to point out that plagiarism isn't confined to undergraduates. The online guidelines for essay writing produced by the School of Art History and...
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Cost of knowledge
What goes around comes around. Almost 30 years ago, while seconded to the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals, I devised an approach that resembles what became known as activity-based...
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Fair play on fair pay? 1
I normally have no objection to league tables where City University is in the top group, such as yours on average academic salaries (News, September 3). If this is true I am pleased - high performers...