Grant us fairer chance
The success of a research proposal to the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council ("Grant rulings 'are skewed'", THES, July 11) depends very much on referees' reports and on how ranking...
The success of a research proposal to the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council ("Grant rulings 'are skewed'", THES, July 11) depends very much on referees' reports and on how ranking...
Nicholas Barr says that if higher education is funded from general taxation, "the taxes of a hospital porter would pay for the degree of the old Etonian" ("MPs maul ministers' blueprint", THES, July...
I'm sure Catherine Belsey does not admire the Cabaret figure who sings The Future Belongs to Me ("Why I...", THES, July 18). He wants Anschluss, not truth and reconciliation. The issue in English...
Catherine Belsey presumably gives marks to the work of her students, so why is she coy about assigning value to the work of writers they study? As students cannot cover everything, they can...
Steven Ley says in the article about What's Cooking in Chemistry? ("An invitation to dine at the periodic table", THES, July 18), a collection of recipes from organic chemists around the world, that...
The article "Quality audit queries OU-validated degrees" ( THES, July 18) about the Quality Assurance Agency audit of our Danish partnership misses the real significance of the report's findings. The...
It seems bizarre that as Open University validation services' appointed external examiner at the Kolding Kobmandsskole, I was not contacted by the QAA audit team. I realise that the audit is...
A. D. Harvey (Letters, THES, July 18) writes about an instance when a book was unavailable for consultation in the British Library's reading rooms at St Pancras because it was out on loan. The...
Brussels, 23 Jul 2003 The second CONCERTO info' day will be aimed primarily at those proposers who have already started to prepare their proposals, though all interested parties will be welcome (...
Brussels, 23 Jul 2003 Following an overwhelming response to the first call for proposals under the 'Food Quality and Safety' priority of the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6), 36 projects have been...
Brussels, 23 Jul 2003 The body providing scientific advice to the UK government is to be reorganised in order to make clearer its role in relation to government priorities. The new terms of reference...
Brussels, 23 Jul 2003 The European society of cardiology will hold its annual congress from 30 August to 3 September in Vienna, Austria. Doctors, researchers and pharmaceutical representatives from...
Bruxelles, le 23 juillet 2003 Commission européenne, industrie sidérurgique, syndicats et opérateurs du secteur acier vont travailler ensemble pour créer une plate-forme technologique, définir un...
Brussels, 23 Jul 2003 With China and Taiwan now officially off the list of areas with recent local transmission of SARS, the chain of transmission of this new disease appears to be broken globally,...
Brussels, 23 Jul 2003 Mention the word 'nanotechnology' and images of serious high-tech innovation come to mind, not Renaissance potters firing their richly glazed ceramics. New evidence looks set to...