Joint attack on chaos
Liverpool is not the UK's leading university in complexity research ("World will not bow to our control", THES , January 16) and is, in some respects, the new kid on the block. In 2001, the Open...
Liverpool is not the UK's leading university in complexity research ("World will not bow to our control", THES , January 16) and is, in some respects, the new kid on the block. In 2001, the Open...
Oxbridge admissions procedures must be reformed ("Cambridge ponders taping of interviews as more parents complain", THES , January 16). Applicants should be under no obligation to answer any...
Is Alan Ryan the fictional lovechild of Laurie Taylor and Ricky Gervais (Opinion, THES , January 23)? Or is he just a don from another planet? Reading that Ryan, if real, is riled by notions of...
Sherpa is not an "online search engine that provides free access to... research papers" as you state ("Archive site takes off", THES , January 16) but is setting up institutional archives of open-...
Lecturers' union Natfhe rightly questions the duplication at the head of the merged London Metropolitan University (News in brief, THES , January 23). Will Roderick Floud, formerly of Guildhall...
How does the value of foundation degrees (Opinion, THES , January 16) compare with the equivalent BTec higher certificates available in many local further education colleges? These courses do not...
With The Times now available in tabloid format, should The THES be considering a broadsheet edition? Gordon Joly London E14
From : The office of the vice-chancellor Subject: Mickey Mouse degrees To : All academic staff As you will be aware, there has recently been a great deal of interest in Mickey Mouse degrees. My...
From : The office of the vice-chancellor Subject: Mickey Mouse degrees To : All academic staff As you will be aware, there has recently been a great deal of interest in Mickey Mouse degrees. My...
Tuesday's nerve-jangling vote was too close for ministers to be sure of getting their bill through Parliament, even now. Undoubtedly, there will be further ambushes to come in committee and in the...
Tuesday's nerve-jangling vote was too close for ministers to be sure of getting their bill through Parliament, even now. Undoubtedly, there will be further ambushes to come in committee and in the...
Bruxelles, 28 janvier 2004 La recherche technologique va jouer un rôle décisif dans la nouvelle initiative ETAP. Tout d'abord, elle va être à l'origine de la création des nouvelles technologies...
Brussels, 28 Jan 2004 Amid little fanfare but great expectations, Russia has launched its first-ever commercially oriented research and development centre. A priority at the institute-cum-incubator...
Brussels, 28 Jan 2004 EU Commissioner for Education and Culture, Viviane Reding, claimed that Europe is lagging behind the US in matters of university funding, as she launched the new EU programme...
Brussels, 28 Jan 2004 The European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) has issued a call for tenders for data collection for the European centre for the validation of alternative methods (ECVAM...