Letter: Acting out equality
"Don't deny spice of life" (Soapbox, THES , March 15) points out that universities and colleges need to act now to ensure that they comply with the Special Educational Needs and Disability Act 2001...
"Don't deny spice of life" (Soapbox, THES , March 15) points out that universities and colleges need to act now to ensure that they comply with the Special Educational Needs and Disability Act 2001...
Final-salary pension schemes are being phased out in the private sector to be replaced by money-purchase schemes that provide inferior benefits. It will be only a matter of time before the final-...
While glad to be included under "heavy hitters" in your piece on post-research assessment exercise funding losses ("Heavy hitters winded by huge budget cuts", THES , March 8), it is only because we...
In your front-page article ("Grant cuts threaten 1,000 jobs", THES , March 15), you assert that Oxford Brookes University is "already facing the loss of 140 academic staff". This is not true. Oxford...
You state that "Middlesex University is making six academics compulsorily redundant". This is not true. The university has lost 90 posts, mostly through not filling vacancies. After a review of...
Ernest Drucker emphasises the possible role of unsterile injections in the emergence of Aids (Features, THES , March 15). But even sterile injections can be dangerous. Injections in the buttock...
In "Laughing all the way to the Left Bank" (Features, THES , March 8), we learn of two Cambridge academics who have bought flats in Paris because they were unable to afford properties in Cambridge....
Gremlins got at my letter ( THES , March 15). Noam Chomsky's view that, at a deep level, thought determines language (not vice versa) is not now discredited, as Michael Bulley says ( THES , February...
The real question about your report "QAA report fingers FE" (THES, March 15) is "who doesn't try to finger FE?" The sector's problem has been its naivety in getting on with the job rather than...
Andy Smith and Mike Eysenck's study of citation counts in psychology departments is problematic (Letters, THES , March 1). The citations Smith and Eysenck sent me to check assumed that researchers...
In view of recent revelations of supposedly independent commentators receiving massive retainers from, for example, the tobacco industry, you should require from your contributors statements of...
Brussels, 20 March 2002 The UK is intending to safeguard its cutting edge inventions with the launch of a new guide, 'Managing intellectual property'. The guide provides strategic advice to...
Brussels, 20 March 2002 The UK is set to back the proposed release of 3.6 million euro of EU funding for the Galileo satellite navigation project. The move signals a significant move from Britain,...
Paris, 20 March 2002 "Space can do a lot for European citizens. Our global satellite navigation system Galileo is now only a step away from taking wing and fly high", said Antonio Rodotà, the...
Brussels, 20 March 2002 Invitation to submit expressions of interest - An opportunity for Europe's research community to help prepare for the first calls of FP6 - Identifier: (EOI.FP6.2002) (OJ C71/...