Wall on the road
A team from the University of Kent will take the 1999 Faraday Lecture on a nine-week tour of 14 cities, telling the story of "The Digital World" to secondary school students and the public. The show...
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E-journal award
A sociology publication from the University of Surrey has won this year's Charlesworth Group Award for electronic journals. Sociological Research Online was praised for its "branding" and for other...
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Navigating south
Amaze, the digital media company spun off from Liverpool John Moore's University, has opened a London studio so it can be closer to clients in the capital. The company has a unique user-driven...
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Glad tidings for the scientific entrepreneur
The white paper on competitiveness will nurture new links between business and science, says Peter Mandelson. Science and technology are the bedrock on which British industry must build for a...
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Science must still prove it is value for money
This year, British science has had the unexpected sensation of seeing real new money coming its way. This week's plethora of science announcements (pages 1 and 3), including the white paper on...
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Accountants and NVQs
Your item on the new vocational qualifications (THES, December 4) contained two false statements about national vocational qualifications that are commonly made and that do not assist efforts to...
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Speaking up for the lab animals
The fact that the Animal Rights Militia (THES, December 11) allegedly threatened to kill researchers if Barry Horne died on hunger strike should not be used as a pretext to condemn the entire anti-...
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Serious Scots
Readers could be forgiven for believing that much of the Scottish National Party's "People's Assembly on Education" was devoted to a row between the Association of University Teachers (Scotland) and...
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Return to the RAE
The past few issues of The THES have witnessed early signs of a return to obsessive concern with an oncoming research assessment exercise. Some of my time recently has been spent travelling, and it...
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Return to the RAE
An article by Alison Goddard (THES, December 11) covers our interim report on interdisciplinarity and the research assessment exercise. Unfortunately, the article misunderstands our research and...
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Firm footing for earth
Your coverage of the proposed closure of the department of earth sciences at the University of Sheffield (THES, December 4) fails to mention that the aim of restructuring is to position students and...
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Bright ideas
Celia Hampton's point that an academic paper can be used to found a patent application is an important one (THES, October 23). It means that an academic can establish his and/or his institution's...
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Grim and bear it
Students will be the losers with the redistribution of Oxbridge college fees, says Robert Stevens. Last week the Department for Education and Employment, in the best spirit of Christmas, issued its...
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Why I... think British museums should hand back their loot
Reader in contemporary cultural studies, University of Central Lancashire As a Glaswegian and an American studies lecturer, I was delighted at the recent decision by Glasgow City Museums to return a...
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World watch
Malan Marnersdottir has become the first woman rector of the University of the Faroe Islands. The University of the Faroe Islands has faculties in Faroese language and literature, history, society,...