Plumb job?
I read with interest of the plumber who completed a higher national diploma and a degree and became a university lecturer ("Brave Scots win minds", THES , January 9). I wonder how his/her new role...
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Quality will out 1
There is no evidence that open access is censoring publication according to ability to pay (Letters, THES , January 9). As Iain Stevenson admits, the publication fee is being waived when authors...
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Quality will out 2
Many journals owned and published by scientific societies put surpluses generated back into science. The Society for Experimental Biology, which owns the Journal of Experimental Botany and part owns...
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Interview was fair 1
We utterly reject Dawn Chatty's version of her daughter's account of her interview for a place to read medical sciences at Downing College, Cambridge ("Oxford tutor attacks Cambridge interview", THES...
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Interview was fair 2
How much do applicants to Oxbridge really miss by rejection? My interviews for Oxford were not that terrifying, but as a mediocre classics student I was taught by people whose style ranged from...
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Trivial pursuits
Fascinatingly trivial as the life of George Robert Fitzgerald was ("Georgian England saw first 'celebrity'", THES , January 9), the true progenitor of today's B and C-list celebrities was surely John...
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Nottingham bodes ill 1
The national implications of Nottingham University's pay scheme are immense (Letters, THES , January 9). The new salary scales and performance-related pay divorce academic from academic-related staff...
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Nottingham bodes ill 2
Nottingham University's claims that its new pay system is based on the proposed national agreement are disingenuous. Nottingham is what industrial relations and pay structures will look like if there...
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European Commission hosts inaugural event to celebrate the launch of the world's first all IPv6 research network
Brussels, 14th January 2004 The European Union has been instrumental in giving political and financial support to the rapid take up of the new Internet Protocol IPv6. This next generation of Internet...
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Ample Scope for Life in the Milky Way, New Research Suggests
Brussels, 14 Jan 2004 A tenth of the stars in our galaxy are in a 'habitable zone' that – like a galactic city in which we live in the outer suburbs – is teeming with planets that may support life,...
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Today's news
Brown backs Blair's plan for top-up fees Chancellor Gordon Brown yesterday offered his emphatic support for Tony Blair's legislation on university fees. In a setback to the revolt against the bill,...
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IE: Future Reactor Design
Brussels, 14 Jan 2004 Petten (NL): Following a request by EC-EURATOM and US-DOE, the Institute for Energy and Argon National Laboratory started an initiative to collaborate in the area of new future...
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Busquin targets twofold increase of EU research budget
Brussels, 14 Jan 2004 Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin has confirmed that he intends to call on the EU's Member States to double the Community budget for research in an enlarged Union. Mr...
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Council calls for research to enhance civil protection
Brussels, 14 Jan 2004 The Environment Council adopted a resolution without debate at the end of December, calling on the EU to promote research into the reduction of natural and technological risks....
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UK government advisors identify adverse environmental effects in GM crop trial
Brussels, 14 Jan 2004 The advisory committee on releases to the environment (ACRE), which guides UK government policy on commercialising genetically modified (GM) crops, has warned that two out of...