Don't do an Enron
Enthusiasts of merit pay in UK universities (Letters, THES , January 9 and 16) should take note: Enron Corporation managers in the US were dedicated supporters of merit pay. According to Bethany...
Enthusiasts of merit pay in UK universities (Letters, THES , January 9 and 16) should take note: Enron Corporation managers in the US were dedicated supporters of merit pay. According to Bethany...
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
Taxpayers face £900m tuition bill for EU students Students from other EU countries will benefit from the same fee remission arrangements as those in England under the government's higher education...
Brussels, 28 January 2004 The European Commission today held an orientation debate on Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) and related issues to take stock of the progress made over the last years...
Brussels, 28 January 2004 Existing approvals Under the rules on the deliberate release of GMOs into the environment (Directive 2001/18/EC and previously Directive 90/220/EC ) so far 18 GMOs have been...
Brussels, 28 January 2004 What are GMOs and GMMs? Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and genetically modified micro-organisms (GMMs) can be defined as organisms (and micro-organisms) in which the...
Paris, 28 Jan 2004 Urgent action is needed on the part of many OECD governments to make the public research sector more involved in innovative activities, more responsive to social needs and more...
Brussels, 28 Jan 2004 The European Commission has established a new 12 million euro Network of Excellence (NoE) called BioSapiens, which comprises a virtual institute for genome annotation and a...
Brussels, 28 Jan 2004 The European Parliament's Environment and Public Health Committee has adopted a report on a Commission proposal for the creation of a European centre for disease prevention and...