UUK is loud and proud
Alison Wolf mistakenly states that vice-chancellors, through Universities UK, have failed to make clear their views on three issues (Opinion, THES, May 30). UUK has not been afraid to rock the boat,...
Alison Wolf mistakenly states that vice-chancellors, through Universities UK, have failed to make clear their views on three issues (Opinion, THES, May 30). UUK has not been afraid to rock the boat,...
As an English-language specialist, I help students do what Martin Luck ("Give their grammar a fine-tuning", THES, May 23) suggests PhD students should do progressively: organise their writing, touch...
Refusing to teach British National Party members (Letters, THES, May 30) shows extreme intolerance and brings the very purpose of academia into question. Our purpose is either to teach within the...
In the course of a career, most teachers will come across students with whom they vehemently disagree. Specialising in ethnicity and nationalism, I have dealt with students here, in South Africa, and...
The National Health Service should not only welcome medics with disabilities, but it should also consider how to support doctors who become disabled during their careers (Soapbox, THES, May 30). From...
Geoffrey Alderman asserts that a university's purpose is for academics alone to decide and that its taxpayer funding is for politicians and taxpayers to determine (Letters, THES, May 30). This will...
Charles Clarke should have looked more closely at UK provision in Baltic studies ("'Purist' Clarke states his case", THES, May 30). He would have found the Baltic Research Unit recently set up at the...
As founder and chairman of Britain's first Baltic Research Unit in 1988, I agree with Clarke that Baltic studies is "a good thing". Shame then that Bradford's recent dispersal of its only 5*...
Academics can blame only themselves if national pay bargaining is in danger (News, THES, May 30). As a Birkbeck staff member for 20-odd years, I was only too aware of progressive relative...
Foundation degrees are filling a gap in the market. But as the gap is so small, is the deciding factor for potential students not curriculum content but the amount of work experience they require?...
Brussels, 04 Jun 2003 Scientists working together onboard the ice-breaker, Polarstern, are proving that relations between EU members are reaching new depths. A team of around 150 marine scientists,...
Brussels, 04 Jun 2003 EU delegates meeting their Moroccan counterparts at the Ministry for Scientific Research in Rabat last week tied the knot on a scientific and technical (S&T) co-...
Brussels, 04 Jun 2003 The Council will adopt conclusions on the integration of the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay System Programme (EGNOS) in the GALILEO satellite navigation programme....
Washington, 04 Jun 2003 Full report (1MB PDF) [...] Expanding use and popularity have caused the GPS to become an information technology that is part of the emerging global information infrastructure...
Luxembourg, 04 Jun 2003 The Board of Governors, consisting of the Finance Ministers of the EU Member States, the EIB's shareholders, held its annual meeting today in Luxembourg. Ministers of the 10...