Oakeshottian defence
Oliver Letwin's contribution ("Why I... believe philosophy still matters", THES , February 28) shows the dangers of the widespread cynical attitude towards politics in Britain. A Popperian or...
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Cash-rich elite depends on the rest 1
Surely the first lesson to be drawn from the comparison of the endowment funds held by US and UK universities is that super-elite institutions utterly fail to deliver research and teaching in...
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Cash-rich elite depends on the rest 2
Your article on the transatlantic "endowment gap" surely misses the point. Most of the heavily endowed US universities mentioned are 19th-century private institutions that live or die by the success...
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Managerial split 1
Steven Schwartz's article ("Can you pinpoint your boss?", THES , March 7) attempts to make the case for a more "business-like" model of university governance, but fails to convince. He states that "...
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Managerial split 2
The responses to Steven Schwartz's article on the management of UK universities (Letters, THES March 14) were sadly predictable. They were also misguided in failing to recognise that universities are...
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'Stab in the back' 1
Roger Brown (Letters, THES , March 14) suggests that it may now be too late for any rational allocation of a stream of funding for research and scholarship. While it is to be hoped that this is not...
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'Stab in the back' 2
Advocates of the policy of taking cash from grade 4 departments to fund increases elsewhere fail to understand (or choose to ignore) the fact that the quality of research in a department rated 4a is...
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A head for facts
Claire Sanders ("There's comfort in hanging on to your head", THES , March 14) implies in her opening paragraphs that no chancellor of Oxford University has yet been executed. This neatly gets round...
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Fun with sadists 1
I was interested to learn that Giancarlo Nivoli of the University of Sassari in Italy considers that many of his compatriot colleagues suffer from mental illness and that this causes their students...
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Number and variety of publications reveal strengths and weaknesses in EU scientific research, says report
Brussels, 19 Mar 2003 Analysing the number and variety of scientific publications in Europe can help pinpoint the scientific strengths and weaknesses of individual countries. This is one of the...
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Philippe Busquin Commissaire européen chargé de la Recherche Le rôle de l'Union européenne dans la politique spatiale, Conférence "L'Europe de la Défense et l'Espace: convergences pour la sécurité" Ec
Ecole Royale Militaire, Bruxelles, 19 mars 2003 Monsieur le Premier Ministre, Monsieur le Haut Représentant, Messieurs les Ministres, Messieurs les Généraux, Mesdames et...
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FP6 Model contract - final versions of core contract, Annex II and Annex III, and Form A.
Brussels, 19 Mar 2003 The Model Contract Working Group The Model Contract Working Group was set up by the research DGs to work on the drafting of model contracts for the new instruments for the Sixth...
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Intervention de Javier Solana, "L'Europe de la Défense et l'Espace", École Royale Militaire de Belgique
Brussels, 19 Mar 2003 Permettez-moi tout d'abord de dire quelques mots sur la Politique de Sécurité et de Défense en général. Hier, le Conseil de l'Union européenne a pris la décision de lancer la...
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EU and Russia advance space co-operation agenda
Brussels, 19 March 2003 Today in Brussels European Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin met Mr Yuri Koptev, Director-General of Rosaviakosmos, the Russian Space Agency. They discussed current and...
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New tool available for online FP6 proposal submission
Brussels, 19 Mar 2003 For the first time, researchers wishing to participate in the EU framework programmes are now able to prepare and submit their proposals online via CORDIS. The new electronic...