No rope to tie hands
In the story about the restructuring of Open University courses, you quote an OU spokeswoman saying: "We have been required by the Quality Assurance Agency to bring our standards up to everyone else...
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Leave Kafka out of law
On trial for murder, in the Coen brothers' film The Man Who Wasn't There, Billy Bob Thornton hires a defence lawyer who tries to cast doubt on the case by invoking the uncertainty principle of...
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CUC got there first
How "unprecedented" is the strategic alliance between further and higher education in Cumbria? Have the project's protaganists forgotten the Combined Universities in Cornwall ("Cumbrian alliance to...
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Tangled in red tape?
Margaret Hodge seems oblivious to the irony of her anti-bureaucracy drive ("Hodge promises check on red tape", THES, April 18). Checks involve a review group, a gatekeeper, an impact assessment and...
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Tragedy repeated
During the 1956 Suez crisis, Sir Pierson Dixon, then UK permanent representative at the United Nations, told the Eden government: "It is quite out of the question to extract from the Security Council...
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Oldest DNA found preserved in Siberian permafrost
Brussels, 23 Apr 2003 Danish scientists have discovered the oldest DNA to date in the permafrost of northeast Siberia. A team of scientists from the Zoological Museum in Copenhagen drilled cores...
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New mailbox for queries on FP6 new instruments
Brussels, 23 Apr 2003 The European Commission's Research DG has launched a mailbox for questions concerning the new instruments of the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6). The new instruments, introduced...
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International symposium showcases Kronsberg-Hanover as sustainable urban model
Brussels, 23 Apr 2003 An international symposium on sustainable urban development concepts will take place from 14 to 16 May in Kronsberg, Hanover, Germany. Kronsberg is a fine example of a...
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Baby teeth offer alternative source of stem cells
Brussels, 23 Apr 2003 Researchers in the US have discovered that baby teeth could provide an important source of stem cells that are more adaptable than adult stem cells and which overcome the...
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Science meets policy: new experiences - future perspectives
Brussels, 23 Apr 2003 An informal workshop, entitled 'science meets policy: new experiences - future perspectives', focusing on the environment and the European Research Area (ERA), will take place...
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Update: 12:30
Ombudsman finds DfES guilty of maladministration The Parliamentary Ombudsman today found the Department for Education and Skills guilty of "serious maladministration" over fraud-hit adult learning...
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Today's news
Half of adults too fat and getting fatter More than half the adult British population is now overweight or obese and getting fatter, leading British doctors say today. In a third report on obesity...
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Breakthrough in search for effective malaria treatment
Brussels, 22 Apr 2003 Scientists from the UK and Thailand believe that they have discovered the key element in the make up of the malaria parasite that allows it to become resistant to new treatments...
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11th European congress on biotechnology, Switzerland
Brussels, 22 Apr 2003 The European federation of biotechnology is organising the 11th European congress on biotechnology, to take place from 24 to 29 August in Basel, Switzerland. The congress is...
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Chirac urges reorganisation of French space sector for the benefit of Europe
Brussels, 22 Apr 2003 French President Jacques Chirac has called for a restructuring of the national space sector, particularly in the field of launchers, as part of a wider objective to preserve...