German Chair for ESA Council
Paris, 22 June 2005 Sigmar Wittig, currently Chairman of the Executive Board of the German Aerospace Centre (DLR), is the new Chair of the ESA Council for the next two years (as from 1 July)....
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Today's news
University cuts lectures to avoid 'over-teaching' Bristol University, which is raising tuition fees to £3,000 a year, has decided that its first-year politics students are being "over-taught". From...
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Laurie Taylor Column
From: Jamie Targett. Head of Corporate Development. To: All Members of Staff. I am pleased to enclose a summary of the final report of the university's Logo Committee. The committee began by...
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Alan Ryan
If low-income students drop out, they end up worse off than before, with dreams broken and huge debts piling up. Over the past three weeks, The New York Times has been running a series of articles on...
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Leader: Science caught in funding trap
Funding for research has seldom been easy to come by in the UK, but it appeared, over the past year, that the outlook was improving significantly. First, the Chancellor's ten-year plan for science...
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Leader: Parents must keep out
Academics and administrators are still coming to terms with the increased willingness of many parents to intervene in their children's higher education. Previous generations of students were far less...
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Is the writing really on the wall? 1
It was quite interesting to read the ever-acerbic Frank Furedi on the pitfalls of credentialism and the gushingly futuristic Baroness Greenfield on the anachronism of book learningJin last week's...
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Is the writing really on the wall? 2
Just how out of touch is Baroness Greenfield to suggest technology may make writing obsolete? Without captions, computer images are little better than animated cave drawings. Thought depends on...
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Not so Merry Met
I was amazed to see you refer to Roderick Floud, president of London Metropolitan University, as a "champion of the poor" ("Queen's Birthday Honours List", June 17) without mentioning that he has...
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Testing times
Alison Wolf (Opinion, June 10) clearly indicates why comparisons of test results and educational standards over time are not normally valid. The learning environment is changing with time, and score...
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Biting point
The report on the growing shortage of clinical academics faced by UK universities (News, June 10) made two highly significant points. The piece noted that the number of dental academics is in...
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Schools for scandal
Those such as Nigel Probert (Letters, June 17) who talk about "the failure of comprehensive schools" like grammar schools but say nothing about secondary modern schools. The problem with the old...
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Nuts to stereotypes
In an edition (June 10) that highlighted distrust of scientists and the difficulties of recruiting science undergraduates, the article on laboratory teaching was illustrated with a "nutty professor...
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A lot of hot air
The article by Godfrey Boyle ("Nukes not necessary", Soapbox, June 10) paints an unrealistic picture of what Britain could achieve by copying Germany in utilising wind power. A study by the...
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Compromising issue
I was not dismissed by the University of East London and I am not pursuing a claim for unfair dismissal ("Lecturer wins landmark legal case", June 17). I took a routine early retirement offer. Anyone...