Baker's sorry standard
Gideon Toury ("Mona Baker's double standard", THES , February 7) is right to note the perversity of Mona Baker's attempt to justify the boycott by a British "private citizen" (Baker) of an Israeli "...
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Class, fees and sin 2
So higher education minister Margaret Hodge thinks "low-paid work is good life experience for a pretty privileged bunch of young people" ("Fact: term-time jobs damage grades", THES , February 7). Isn...
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Class, fees and sin 3
Debates about funding and widening participation are nothing new. A 1229 recruiting leaflet from the "new" University of Toulouse offers prospective students the "plenary indulgence of all their sins...
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Interview critiques 1
Alison Wolf writes that she is "utterly bemused by Oxbridge's arrogant belief that abandoning exams for interviews meant they would be 'fair' to everyone" (Opinion, THES , February 7). She may well...
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Laurie Taylor
From: The vice-chancellor and chief executive To: All academic staff As one or two of you might be vaguely aware, The THES recently published a league table purporting to show the increases in salary...
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Leader: Build a research elite and ensure freedom for rest
There is no point trying to stop academics doing research. Even in new universities, which have almost no official funding for it, research goes on, papers are published and research degrees are...
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Leader: Recruiting free-for-all will bring instability
Top-up fees and restrictions on research funds represent the public face of the government's proposed higher education "market". But student enrolment figures published this week show that fissures...
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Alan Ryan
Does Britain have class the way that America has race? If so, can positive discrimination do any good? The item in Charles Clarke's white paper on the future of higher education that has attracted...
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CREST Opinion on Commission Communication "More Research for Europe; Towards 3% of GDP" - Overall opinion of CREST (link)
Brussels, 12 Feb 2003 Full text of Document 1202/03 CREST welcomes the Commission Communication as a good starting-point on the basis of which the EU can approach spending of 3% of GDP on R&D...
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Commission Staff Working Paper - First implementation report on "A Mobility Strategy for the European Research Area" (link)
Brussels, 12 Feb 2003 Full text of Document 6237/03 Delegations will find attached Commission document SEC(2003) 146. Council Register
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Conference to examine foresight in the enlarged European research and innovation area
Brussels, 12 Feb 2003 An international conference on the subject 'foresight in the enlarged European research and innovation area' will take place on 15 and 16 May in Ioannina, Greece. The main aim...
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MED-REUNET seminar on wastewater reclamation
Brussels, 12 Feb 2003 The Mediterranean network on wastewater reclamation and reuse (MED-REUNET), a cooperative programme funded by the European Commission, will hold a seminar in Izmir, Turkey, from...
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Draft statement of the Council's reasons: Common Position for a Directive concerning the prohibition on the use in stockfarming of certain substances having a hormonal or thyreostatic action and of be
Brussels, 12 Feb 2003 Full text of Document 14502/02 [...] III. ANALYSIS OF THE COMMON POSITION There is no difference of opinion between the Council, the European Parliament and the Commission...
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Some UK universities set to lose government research funding
Brussels, 12 Feb 2003 Further concentration of government funding for research at UK universities may mean a loss of funding for some university departments doing research of national excellence...
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Ariane-4 launch delayed
Paris, 12 Feb 2003 The last launch of an Ariane 4, due to take place this morning at 08:00 CET from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, has been postponed due to unfavourable weather...