Huw Richards asks if the Conservatives can find a way out of the wilderness and pick up voters on campuses. Two decades in party politics should prepare you for most things. But shadow Cabinet member...
The Whistleblower column ("Luton professor was wrongfully dismissed", THES , September ) refers to unsubstantiated allegations that the University of Luton refutes. The claim that the appointment...
Polytechnics are evidently still a topic of debate judging by two articles, one looking forward, the other looking back, in The THES (September 20). Tony Tysome ("Colleges bid to become the new polys...
Research showing that degree classifications are inconsistent hardly breaks revolutionary ground (News, THES , September ). Prospective students never ask: "What are the rules that determine how I...
The debacle over A-level results might have led some to suspect that education secretary Estelle Morris interfered in the workings of the examining bodies ("V-cs get set for crisis fallout", THES ,...
Our students take A-level or AS further maths ("Universities revive further maths", THES , September 20). The students gain good grades, but we still have difficulty recruiting viably sized groups....
The implication last week that some institutions will not implement this year's pay rise was misleading ("Poverty plea could delay 3.5 per cent pay rise", THES , September ). First, all higher...
Your article "More staff earn £50K-plus" ( THES , September ) could be taken to imply, incorrectly, that Southampton Institute has made generous pension "top-ups" to staff taking early retirement,...
Is it relevant that the new chief executive of the Economic and Social Research Council is "a big man" and, as such, "a strong contrast, physically and personally, with his predecessor"? (Features...
Leicester University's "Campus of the Future" (News, THES , September ) will incorporate "communal sectors... providing meeting points for academics and students from different subject areas". I seem...
I am researching the life of Professor Ernest Weekley (1865-1954) and would like to talk to descendants of people who were taught by him at Nottingham University College. I am particularly keen to...
Sir Alec Broers ("Cambridge outrage ill-founded", THES , September 13) fails to address the key issue: where does the ethical and legal right in intellectual property lie? No one (and no group) can...
Ross Anderson has raised alarm that is without foundation (Letters, THES , September 20). He claims that the proposal to bring intellectual property policy in Cambridge in line with other...
Brussels, 02 Oct 2002 Carlos WESTENDORP Y CABEZA (PES, E), chairman of the Industry Committee, was pleased to announce on Tuesday morning that the Commission, Council and Parliament had reached a...
Paris, 02 Oct 2002 Integral is the International Gamma Ray Astrophysics Laboratory of the European Space Agency. It is a cooperative mission with Russia and is scheduled for launch on 17 October 2002...