Letter: Hurdles in the RAE handicap 6
Your leading article lauds the English, but what about the Welsh? You mention every university in the top ten except Cardiff. It too has seen an exceptional improvement. Tom Wiersma Information...
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Letter: Hurdles in the RAE handicap 7
A change of managers, removal to Lincoln and a name change to the University of Lincoln in October 2001 means that the table for art and design in the RAE results does not credit the Hull School of...
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Letter: Hurdles in the RAE handicap 8
We are gratified that the RAE recognised the achievement of members of the former history department at the University of Luton with a rating of 4, up from 2 on its 1996 entry. But we do not believe...
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Letter: Corpse not corporate
Save British Science has the job of saying things other people do not want to hear, so we have never won a prize and were delighted to be nominated in the The THES ("Boom and bust", THES , December...
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Letter: Academic 'reality'
David Walker's argument concerning the impact of social science ignored the role that many social scientists play in what he terms the "real" world ("Get out into the real world", THES , December 14...
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Letter: Mission accomplished
So the president of Magdalen College considers that "only two universities remain perilously clinging to their standards" ("Elite citadels fall to dumb hordes", THES , December 14). To judge from...
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Letter: In brief 1
H. C. S. Ferguson needs to check the pensions calculations (Letters, THES , December 14) in detail. Quite apart from the improbability of a lecturer clocking up 40 years of pensionable service by age...
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Letter: In brief 2
I cannot help feeling that Marc Lopatin took a rather jaundiced view of the 2001 British Council education fairs in Vietnam ("UK spots potential market in Vietnam", THES , November 23). Duncan...
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Letter: In brief 3
Some £21 million has apparently been spent on mothballing the Dome. Some £1.7 billion will be needed to bail out the nuclear power industry. The Individual Learning Accounts are overspent by £59...
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Leader: Time to prevent dispute over online copyright
The ruling of the copyright tribunal adjudicating between Universities UK and the Copyright Licensing Agency (page 6) will save universities more than £5 million a year. It will also reassure anyone...
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Leader: Your Scrooge is someone else's Santa Claus
'Tis the season to be jolly. And higher education has good cause to celebrate. The year 2001 ends with a ringing endorsement of university research; an appropriate quality assurance regime seems to...
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100 years of the Nobel
In a special supplement, guest edited by Sir Harry Kroto, a host of Nobel prize winners write about their priorities for the 21st century, the responsibilities of being a laureate and the challenges...
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Beware the diabolical in the sublime
Scientists must take responsibility for the consequences of their discoveries, argues Joseph Rotblat, and the mantle should sit most heavily on the shoulders of the Nobel laureates. In his elegant...
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The greatest prize of all
What gets a Nobel laureate excited? Guest editor Harry Kroto says the buzz in his field comes from nanoscience but warns that mankind is in danger if we lose our most precious possession, the freedom...
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Emission to kill
The hole in the ozone over Antarctica surprised a world that thought it was polluting only its cities. Paul Crutzen asks what other shocks lie in store. From an evolutionary point of view, Homo...