Campus havens, classroom hell 2
From the periphery of the lecturers' labour market, I empathise with Tina Brown. But are academics "gutless"? The following ads for postgraduate research fellows appeared recently in The THES...
From the periphery of the lecturers' labour market, I empathise with Tina Brown. But are academics "gutless"? The following ads for postgraduate research fellows appeared recently in The THES...
Alison Wolf (Columnist, THES , November 14) paints a dismal but familiar picture of UK higher education and its inherent parochialism. Only one sentence in the entire article mentions the benefits (...
Alexander Wedderburn's problem of non-recognition of his Universities Superannuation Scheme pension by German universities (Letters, THES , November 14) matches mine, but in reverse. I made my...
If the Association of University Teachers is at odds with colleagues in other unions (Jocelyn Prudence, Letters, THES , November 14), it is because it does not strike two-year pay deals at 4am when...
As usual Laurie Taylor moved me to an involuntary snigger, this time with his column on solidarity with university administrators ( THES , November 14). It reminded me of when I was on an...
Have the researchers who are developing a drug to burn excess fat ("Aston finds fat-buster clue", THES , 14 November) worked out the economics? We would be able to eat lots more fat and sugar with...
Ever since he rejoined the Open University, Graham Gibbs has been a frequent visitor to the office next to mine to share a sandwich lunch with the occupant, Vicky Lewis, and on many occasions they...
"After theory"? Good riddance to poststructuralism, its flawed, failed ideas and obfuscations ("We're all theorists now", THES , November 14). Faced with a Kantian Nazi, Foucault's "very tenuous link...
May we have a proper photograph of Phil Baty? A man who can jump to far-fetched conclusions while blowing a whistle with his foot in his mouth should be something for the anatomists to ponder. Alan...
Brussels, 19 November 2003 Notification according to Article 95(4) and (5) of the EC Treaty - Request for authorisation to introduce national provisions derogating from a Community harmonisation...
Brussels, 19 November 2003 How can you be sure your watch is not a fake? How can you avoid a cargo container's shipment changing, or disappearing, between departure and the arrival? The Commission's...
Brussels, 19 Nov 2003 Full text of Document 14886/03 Suite of documents 14886/03 Subject: WHITE PAPER Space: a new European frontier for an expanding Union ­ An action plan for implementing...
Brussels, 19 Nov 2003 Full text of Document 14886/03 Addendum 01 Suite of documents 14886/03 Subject: Green Paper on European Space Policy: Report on the consultation process ­ Information...
Strasbourg, 19 Nov 2003 Peter LIESE (EPP-ED, D) Report on the proposal for a Council decision amending decision 2002/834/EC on the specific programme for research, technological development and...
Brussels, 19 Nov 2003 Summary: How can you be sure your watch is not a fake? How can you avoid a cargo container's shipment changing or disappearing between departure and arrival? The EC's JRC has...