Brussels, 28 Oct 2004 Many of the European Union's Member States are currently in the process of rethinking the structure of their research systems. The rationale for this self-examination can...
Brussels, 28 Oct 2004 The EU must drop the idea that the European Research Area (ERA) should be created from the top down, concentrate on users and establish a clearing-house for the collection of...
Brussels, 28 Oct 2004 NETIAM, a series of workshops on new and emerging themes in industrial and applied mathematics supported through the Commission's NEST initiative, will hold an event on '...
Brussels, 28 Oct 2004 The University of Twente is organising a four day training course for research and development (R&D) evaluators and government officials, to be held in Enschede, the...
University of Poppleton staff news Research assessment exercise The next research assessment exercise will cover the period to July 21 2007. Although a sizeable number of you will not be with us by...
Class warfare starts in the womb and newly dreamt-up admissions tariffs are a blunt instrument with which to fight it Funny things, numbers. There we are with the Department for Education and Skills...
What's in a name? Quite a lot in higher education, as regular spats over university titles have demonstrated down the years. And in a walk of life where prestige often has to compensate for better...
The new sliding scale of grants to be made available in 2005 will not satisfy those who have been campaigning to reverse the injustices heaped upon part-time students for as long as state support has...
What a stroke of genius on the part of your correspondents Quentin Deakin, Richard Mullender (Letters, October 15), as well as Claire Sambrook, writing in The Guardian (October 23) to play along with...
Steven Schwartz's article on university marketing is a much overdue critique of approaches to "getting bums on seats" (Soapbox, October 22). However, we should not look solely at the marketing arm,...
Lee Harvey (Letters, October 15) accepts Bob Brecher's apparently appealingly simple solution of random admissions to undergraduate courses far too readily. His claim that Brecher "demolished" the...
The employment of headhunting firms to recruit deans and research professors ("RAE triggers headhunt race", October 22) has nothing to do with the 2008 research assessment exercise. But it does have...
Was it just me or did the agency names in articles last week raise a smile on the lips of others? Heidrick and Struggles - a recruitment agency for deans, not to mention Standard and Poor's - a...
Cecile Wright is correct in pointing to the impact of structural racism in higher education (Features, October 22). But she is way off target in suggesting that "in the health service or in schools,...
Chris Bunting states that "in the humanities and social sciences, ...[Cecile] Wright appears to stand alone as the only black female professor". What about Ann Phoenix, professor of social and...