Leader: Excellence receives its rewards
The shift in focus away from the elite changes the research landscape and fulfils the funding council's promise for the RAE
The shift in focus away from the elite changes the research landscape and fulfils the funding council's promise for the RAE
In an ideal world, tertiary educators would be able to teach innovative courses, updated every year by the latest research in their field. Students would read widely, be well adjusted and eager to...
John Dunning, a renowned authority on international business, has died.He was born in Bedfordshire on 26 June 19, educated in Harrow and London and, after National Service in the Royal Navy,...
John Denham, the Universities Secretary, will have to devise a very crude alternative to the research assessment exercise if he wants to restrict future funding of "pockets of excellence" in teaching...
The Universities Secretary has apparently identified two models for quality-related (QR) finance - concentrating research funding on what appear to be the existing research-intensive institutions or...
Tracey Brown, in her letter (26 February) attacking the article on Sense About Science's genetic modification guide and GM Watch's press release about conflicting interests ("Charity guide criticised...
I write in response to the article "Imperial faces funding gap as merger takes toll" (19 February).The creation of the Academic Health Science Centre (AHSC) has indeed been a major undertaking over...
I am the Kingston University journalism student who wrote the Surrey Comet article that first highlighted Kingston's misreporting of student non-completions.It is incorrect for Peter Scott, Kingston'...
It is a pity that Andrew Morgan feels that the only way to meet my argument about teaching quality is to descend to personal insults, asserting that I do "not grasp the notion of scholarly research...
Malcolm Johnson's arguments logically lead to the euthanising of the mentally ill and the clinically depressed if they don't respond to medication ("Departing with dignity: the ultimate palliative...
An anonymous employee of the University of Ulster has raised concerns about the institution giving priority to employing potentially redundant employees ("Ulster's ring-fenced posts come under fire...
Sense About Science is annoyed with Times Higher Education for mentioning that Vivian Moses, who contributed to its booklet on GM, heads a biotech industry-funded lobby group. It says this is not a...
Supplementing the diet of cows could deliver considerable benefits to human health without the need to reduce the intake of dairy products, University of Reading scientists have discovered. As part...
An £11.4 million global scholarship programme has been announced by the University of Wales. The Prince of Wales Innovation Scholarships programme, which will be run by the principality's federal...
Musing on the often acrimonious debate between atheists and believers, Simon Blackburn takes as his inspiration David Hume, who approached the issue not with hatred but with humour