Leeds v-c makes a million
THESALE of a thriving university company to a United States firm has netted its founder, Leeds University vice chancellor Alan Wilson, close to Pounds 1 million. Financial details of the deal...
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'Cosy' publishers come under academic fire
Academics want big changes to the way their articles are handled by the publishing industry, according to a survey on journal writing, refereeing and editing. Suggestions include shortening the time...
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Act now for more open universities
Despite paying lip-service to open access, Oxbridge remains a bastion of the upper professional classes. If it truly wants to admit more state-school students, there is plenty it can do, argues...
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Skill needed in setting standards of information
Not all academic standards can be displayed quantitatively. But, says Anthony Fletcher, the exercise can provide valuable insights The Dearing committee's report has put the issue of academic...
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Darwinian dissent
Darwinian evolution is easy to understand but difficult to accept, since mere mortals are as intimately bound by the same basic processes to secure survival as everything else and most inevitably...
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Fightback of beyond
Stephen Glover, in his review of the magazine Prospect (THES, November 7), writes: "If you are living in the back of beyond in Wisconsin, a glossy magazine may be your only lifeline to sentient...
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Bristle over brush-off
Apropos "John Smith's" efforts to break open the closed old-boy network in research fund application reviewing (THES, November 14) why not go the whole hog with "reform" and apply the same "...
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Copycats and fat cats
We are partners with the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society in managing the Copyright Licensing Agency. ALCS's claim that publishers "took all the money" from journal photocopying (THES,...
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Post-traumatic debate disorder
There has been heated debate surrounding routine psychological help for individuals exposed to traumatic events and the existence of post-traumatic stress disorder ("The stress dissident", THES,...
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Oxbridge umbrage
Why should you suppose that when I say that there ought to be more universities properly funded to teach the bright people Oxbridge cannot squeeze in, as well as those who do not apply, I really mean...
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Read 'em and weep
Harriet Swain's puff for the new British Library (THES, November 21) is misleading. She says "initial reaction to the interior has been positive", but quotes negative reactions from David Mellor and...
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Exports built on goodwill
WHAT do an Egyptian PhD, a Greek MBA, a Bulgarian MSc and a Singaporean postgraduate in engineering have in common? They are just a few of the many postgraduates who have taken part in the British...
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Don's Diary
Tuesday Waterloo International 8 am. I do not know why I do this to myself (and my family). I have left a sick son in London, a stack of marking in Hull, along with piles of paper for my long-...
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Wanted: can-doers in the think tanks
ONLY six months ago, "Mr Blair and the intellectuals" was almost as regular a fallback in dinner party conversations among British university social scientists as were house prices and the unrelieved...
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Research career a minority sport
The majority of contract researchers want to continue in academic research, but their ambitions are likely to be frustrated by the lack of available posts, a pioneering survey has found. Little is...