Time to bite back
As acting chair of the Better Regulation Review Group, I was surprised by the contents of your article "DFES bitten by its own red-tape watchdog" ( THES, June ). The group's work is important. The...
As acting chair of the Better Regulation Review Group, I was surprised by the contents of your article "DFES bitten by its own red-tape watchdog" ( THES, June ). The group's work is important. The...
While I sympathise with Graeme Garrard about graduate supervision at Oxford University (Letters, THES, June ), one sentence is misleading. True, graduates pay hefty fees, but supervisors receive only...
Alison Wolf argues that "statistics are a poor way of explaining bias" in degree results (Opinion, THES, June ). But they can provide part of the answer for male-female bias. Fewer firsts and thirds...
Alison Wolf's inferences about gender are fundamentally flawed. Even if there was no genetic basis for difference in ability between the sexes, there would still be differences in social and...
As widening participation premiums will be paid on the basis of students' and their parents' previous education, the Open University is not scoring an "own goal" by offering the Beckhams free Spanish...
In your honours list report, you describe T. R. Miles, the dyslexia expert, as a professor of pshychology. You send promotional material to me at the Department of Pyschology. I wish you would get it...
If Richard Grove is searching for a report on soil erosion in Queensland, help may be at hand ("Don't pulp the past", THES, June ). Francis Ratcliffe's 1937 report on soil erosion in southwest...
Strasbourg, 02 Jul 2003 Antonios TRAKATELLIS (EPP-ED, GR) Report on the Council common position for adopting a European Parliament and Council regulation on traceability and labelling of genetically...
Brussels, 02 Jul 2003 Paris conference brings Green Paper process to a close 1st July 2003 The results of the Space Green Paper consultation were presented in Paris on 23 and 24 June 2003. The joint...
Brussels, 02 Jul 2003 The second conference on frontier science will take place from 8 to 12 September in Pavia, Italy. The conference, entitled 'A Nonlinear World: The Real World', will discuss the...
Brussels, 02 Jul 2003 The sixth international brain research organisation (IBRO) world congress on neuroscience will take place from 10 to 15 July in Prague, Czech Republic. The event will not only...
Brussels, 02 Jul 2003 An international conference on allergy prevention will take place in Wageningen, the Netherlands, from 4 to 6 February, 2004. 'Allergy Matters! 2004' will address the following...
Brussels, 02 Jul 2003 CORDIS, the European Commission's Research and Development Information Service, has launched a dedicated service for research and specific support actions on non-nuclear energy...
Paris, 02 Jul 2003 After a number of tests and new insights, SOHO engineers now say there will be no 'blackout' periods for SOHO science data. High-rate transmissions from the Solar and Heliospheric...
Brussels, 02 Jul 2003 EU Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin has signed scientific and technological cooperation agreements with Tunisia and Morocco. This is the first time that such agreements...