Brussels, 07 Apr 2005 A conference entitled 'Networking and clustering: a dynamic to accelerate innovation and entrepreneurship in Europe', will take place in Nantes, France, from 18 to 21 May. The...
Oxford college guilty of race discrimination Oxford University was yesterday accused of "institutional racism" after an employment tribunal ruled that a former accountant had been the victim of race...
"Don't overpromote your university, v-cs warned" - headline in The Times Higher, April 1 . From: The Office of the President and Vice-Chancellor To: All Academic Staff I have recently been informed...
Little more than a year ago, higher education was at the top of the political agenda. The parties felt so strongly about tuition fees that even many Labour loyalists were prepared to bring down the...
Very few items of public expenditure ever double in size. But that is the suggested jump in European Union research spending between the current Framework 6 Programme and Framework 7, which is due to...
The conclusion reached in The Times Higher last week ("Bodleian may not survive cut intact", April 1) is so far from describing the situation accurately that I can only hope it was intended as an...
You are to be congratulated on publicising the disquieting proposals for the Bodleian. Hopefully this will lead to their wider discussion. Naturally, several have merit. But there are also major...
The crass plans to break up the Bodleian exemplify the irreversible damage that can be done when scholarship gives way to "professional management". Fortunately, in Oxford the academic community...
So which was the April fool last week? Oxford proposing to carve up the Bodleian? Or the sociology professor who thinks six pages enough to summarise Plato's Republic (Letters, April 1)? Or the...
Jocelyn Prudence of the Universities and Colleges Employers' Association believes that "expertise" in the management of human resources in higher education has "improved substantially" ("£600m for...
To suggest that £600 million has been "frittered away" on the rewarding and developing staff (RDS) scheme is insulting and inaccurate. RDS was always, and remains, about recruiting, retaining and...
I recently received, for information, a 20-page job description for a tutor to cover maternity leave. Need I say more? Lewis Elton University College London
Your article "Top pair quit academy" (April 1) gave a misleading picture of the Academy of Social Sciences. Contrary to the report, we now have a surplus of £50,000 and the prospect of a respectable...
Contrary to the views of Des Browne, the Immigration Minister ("Hike in visa cost will not deter foreign students", April 1), the National Union of Students believes that government policies will...
Des Browne's assertion that increases in visa extension charges for overseas students are to cover costs is not borne out by the figures. The operating costs of the General Group - which administers...