Fine-tuning required 1
The debate about A-level grade inflation (or not) misses the point. One of the grades' main uses is to enable universities to obtain the best candidates for available places. If an increasing...
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Fine-tuning required 2
Last week's article about falling levels of basic mathematical skills among electronics and physics students at York University who have particular maths A-level grades is interesting ("B-grade maths...
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Still free to speak
Gamma minus for clear-headedness to the drafters of the Higher Education Act 2004 ("Union calls for strong watchdog", August ) on one or two additional points. They have neglected to repeal the...
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Burning issue
I read William Rubinstein's review of The Burning Tigris: A History of the Armenian Genocide (Books, August 6) with amazement. Rubinstein not only states that there was an Armenian genocide, which is...
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Wet idea
I am sure academics will endorse Bruce Charlton's views on the latest piece of bureaucratic dottiness from civil servants, although whoever chose the title "transparency" obviously has a nice sense...
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Dodgy dealings 1
George Macdonald Ross is right (Letters, August ). The concept of plagiarism is complex and disputed, but perhaps also endemic in academic life as a whole. In a brief check using Joint Information...
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Dodgy dealings 2
Since the Government feels entitled to start wars on the basis of plagiarised "dodgy dossiers", I fail to see why universities such as Sunderland should be embarrassed about awarding degrees on the...
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Laurie Taylor Column
University of Poppleton Clearing Hotline Centre. Sorry, I'm in a phone box. Could you say that again? I SAID, UNIVERSITY OF POPPLETON CLEARING HOTLINE. Right. Is this the number for people with lousy...
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Alan Ryan
'You may get muddled if you put the same label on different things and can't remember which is which, and we have now encountered that problem' The Government needs to be less concerned about what...
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Leader: Foundations in need of securing
For a qualification that is so central to government plans to expand higher education, three years after the first courses were launched the foundation degree remains remarkably little understood....
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Leader: Old attitudes die hard
There are many reasons why one university may pay higher average salaries than another. The subject profile, large numbers of postdoctoral researchers, even location, may all contribute to apparently...
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Today's news
Women suffer £5k pay gap at UK universities Women earn up to a quarter less than men at some universities despite taking the lion's share of recent promotions, according to new figures. Average pay...
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Commission Communication of the new instruments of the 6th Framework Programme (link)
Brussels, 01 Sep 2004 COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION responding to the observations and recommendations of the high-level Panel of independent experts concerning the new instruments of the 6th...
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GALILEO Joint Undertaking - Information Day of the Euro-Mediterranean Satellite Navigation (GNSS) project (links)
Brussels, 01 Sep 2004 Ministry of Civil Aviation Cairo, EGYPT September 2004 Invitation Letter Draft Agenda Registration Form For more information: GJU Energy and Transport DG
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Envisat witnesses return of the South Polar ozone hole
Paris, 01 Sep 2004 The smudges of dark blue on this Envisat-derived ozone forecast trace the start of what has unfortunately become an annual event: the opening of the ozone hole above the South Pole...