Past caring
One is disappointed to find a senior academic as prejudiced against innovation as Alison Pollock ("Markets will value cash over caring", August ). It is no coincidence that both major parties are...
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V-c = very creative
Only 18 vice-chancellors listed reading as a hobby ("Guns, guts and gardens", September 10)? I'm astonished you didn't make more of this. It suggests that intellectual interests are no more common...
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Laurie Taylor Column
University of Poppleton "Planning for the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise", Friday October 1st, Middlewhite Theatre. Livestock Reception Centre. Poppleton Pork Products Plc. Facilitators : Jamie...
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Alan Ryan
Universities UK should beware the Tories bearing gifts as their plans for UK institutions are duplicitous When the wooden horse appeared below the walls of Troy, the prescient old priest said, "...
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Leader: Indicators herald welcome change
The novelty has worn off higher education's performance indicators (page 8) since the blaze of publicity that greeted their first appearance five years ago. Like most national statistics, they alter...
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Leader: Don't mention the fees
After the battering Tony Blair received from his party over top-up fees, no one could blame him for avoiding the subject at the Labour conference this week. But there is something strange about a...
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Dropout rates among full-time students 2001/02
Table: Highest/lowest participation rates form lower social class groups Table: Research income generated per academic costs Projected learning outcomes Dropout rates among full-time students...
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Highest/lowest participation rates form lower social class groups
Table: Dropout rates among full-time students 2001/02 Table: Research income generated per academic costs Working class heroes Universities with highest participation rates form the lower social...
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Research income generated per academic costs
Table: Dropout rates among full-time students 2001/02 Table: Highest/lowest participation rates form lower social class groups Bang for buck How much research income universities generate per...
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Today's news
Top universities 'blackmailed' to take state pupils Private schools accused the Government of "blackmail" yesterday after top universities were set tough targets for the admission of students from...
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Report of UK event on exploiting electromagnetic spectrum - commercial opportunities for next decade
London, 29 September 2004 The electromagnetic spectrum, from radio frequencies through optical to x-ray, encompasses much adventurous scientific research and is the basis for a wide range of vitally...
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Hearing of Stavros Dimas (environment policy)
Brussels, 29 Sep 2004 "Environmental protection is precisely the area where non-action can be very costly", said Commissioner-designate for the Environment Stavros DIMAS at his hearing by the...
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Global Earth observations system moves one step closer
Brussels, 29 Sep 2004 Participants in the international 'Group on Earth Observations' (GEO) met in Brussels on and 28 September to further negotiations on a ten year implementation plan for a global...
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Universities must innovate to survive, conference is told
Brussels, 29 Sep 2004 If any members of the Deans' European Academic Network (DEAN) questioned the significance of the theme for their annual conference in Porto, Portugal, on and 28 September (...
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Ireland launches consultation on FP7
Brussels, 29 Sep 2004 The Irish Council for Science, Technology and Innovation (ICSTI) has launched, a national consultation process on the Seventh EU Framework Programme for research (FP7). At the...