Codes for class
Coding by occupation may be an alternative to the postcode measure of university entrants' social class, but the data-gathering needs to improve (Leader, THES, May 3). The occupational code of many...
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Codes for class
Your leader criticises the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service for not giving admissions staff information about an individual applicant's social class. Like information relating to ethnic...
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Talking down teaching
Frank Furedi claims to know what the Institute for Learning and Teaching thinks ("They sign on, turn up but fail to tune in", THES, May 3), although he is not a member. We have more than 10,000...
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Talking down teaching
It is suggested that academics "do not seem to think of applying their critical intelligence to teaching and learning" (Letters, THES, May 3). Many will find such a statement insulting and untrue....
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Turned off by tables
In 1994, the Quality Assurance Agency rated Royal Holloway's geography department "satisfactory" for its teaching. On the basis of these results from the distant past, The THES excluded the...
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Timely review
I was pleased to see that some environmental science departments are considering a judicial review ("Scientists go to law over RAE scores", THES, May 10) over the results of the research assessment...
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Hit by low pay and Hodge-podge
Laurie Taylor's column (THES, May 10) encouraged a thought about graduates and their financial responsibilities to their alma maters. Given the pitiful state of academics' salaries compared with...
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Laurie Taylor column
POPPLETON MANAGER SAYS: "I STAY" At a hastily convened press conference in the University Science Park, the vice-chancellor of embattled Poppleton insisted yesterday that he had "no intention of...
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Today's news
Graduate job prospects at lowest for decade Students due to graduate this summer are more pessimistic about their job prospects than at any time during the past decade, research published today...
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Update 12:30
Larger subsidies needed to retain students Students are getting a raw deal at university because money is being drained from teaching and research to subsidise the government’s widening participation...
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European Ethics Group: Commissioner Busquin answers parliamentary questions
Strasbourg, 15 May 2002 Verbatim report of proceedings on 14 May 2002, Part 1. El Presidente. - Pregunta nº 34 formulada por Phillip Whitehead (H-0330/02): Asunto: Trabajos del Grupo Europeo sobre...
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Stem cell research using human embryos: Commissioner Busquin answers parliamentary questions
Strasbourg, 15 May 2002 Verbatim report of proceedings on 14 May 2002, Part 1. Asunto: Constituciones de los Estados miembros y Sexto Programa marco Busquin, Commission. La Commission est consciente...
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EU study uncovers myths about public attitudes to biotechnology
Brussels, 15 May 2002 An EU-funded study has concluded that popular perceptions of public attitudes to biotechnology are mere myths. The report on 'Public perceptions of agricultural biotechnologies...
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Agreement on the Sixth Framework Programme
Strasbourg, 15 May 2002 Gérard CAUDRON (PES, F) Report on the Council common position for adopting a European Parliament and Council decision on the Sixth Framework Programme of the European...
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Commission welcomes European Parliament's green light for EUR 17.5 billion 6th Research Framework Programme
Brussels, 15 May 2002 In a landmark vote today in Strasbourg the European Parliament gave its go-ahead to the Commission's proposal for next EU Research and Development Framework Programme (FP6). "I...