Washington, 28 Sep 2006 NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity has arrived at the rim of a crater about five times wider than a previous stadium-sized crater it studied for six months. Initial images from the...
London, 28 September 2006 Programme Aim To bring together the funding providers and other regulators in the Higher Education sector to facilitate discussions on the opportunities available for making...
Deadline: 05/12/2006
City looks overseas for young recruits The City is increasingly looking overseas for young recruits because foreign graduates are more mature than their British counterparts, a report warned...
From: The Office of the President Subject: University Values As you will recall, we recently engaged a leading firm of management consultants, Quantum Leap plc, to assist in the preparation of a set...
The three submissions published this week by university groups on the future of research assessment and funding hold no great surprises, but they constitute an interesting case study on the way in...
The first and proudest boast of Education Secretary Alan Johnson's speech to the Labour Party conference involved the thousands of state schools refurbished with government money. This week's report...
Ed Hughes, the research assessment exercise manager, could easily minimise game-playing by universities that don't submit all researchers ("RAE 2008: only the very best need apply", September 22). He...
Which is fairer of the following two systems? First, one in which an institution with a department of 100 academics, 99 of whom are worthy of a 1* research rating and one of a 5* rating, chooses to...
If the research assessment exercise officers wished to minimise game-playing they would have adopted the suggestion of the Roberts report and insisted that departments submit all their staff. The...
I note that the research assessment exercise bureaucracy has become so great that even Bob Dylan has been forced to comment in his latest communique to his followers ["the world of research has gone...
I was interested to see so many letters responding to my opinion piece and the story about widening participation ("Experts: access policy futile" and Opinion, September 15, Letters, September 22)....
It is quite right to have regular debates about the meaning and purpose of widening participation. But the more pressing issue is not about getting them in but getting them to stay. Having just...
"Mental health crisis on campus" (September 22) describes many of the kinds of pheno-mena uncovered in research we conducted last year. Vulnerable people are being persuaded to enter education. We...
Last week I was asked to comment on the report that the London School of Economics was considering establishing a "Blair School of Government". I said, by e-mail: "We have had no discussions with the...