Letter: Take my advice
Sir Michael Bichard's views on higher education appear to coincide with those of his former political masters ("Universities resisting efforts to hold them accountable, Bichard says", THES , January...
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Letter: Quality refrain creates discord
Let us extend Peter Williams's analogy between a university department and an orchestra ("Define 'quality', then we'll talk 'assurance'", THES , January 11). Imagine how the Quality Assurance Agency...
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Letter: Quality refrain creates discord 2
If violinists, when not performing, had to produce play lists to pass to a conductor, who had no time to perform but simply processed these documents because a team of critics was to visit in six...
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Letter: Quality refrain creates discord 3
If universities are the "concert halls of the intellect", further education colleges are its rock clubs. Quality in further education is about teaching and learning, and quality assurance is about...
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Letter: Quality refrain creates discord 4
Peter Williams says the debate on quality assurance consists of "mediocre cliches" and "low-quality non-thought". His article continues this ignoble tradition. We read about paymasters and pipers (...
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Letter: Myths of peace
Raymond Cohen's review of Edward Said's The End of the Peace Process recycles two myths about the Oslo agreement ("Books, THES , January 11). The first is that it was the rightwing government of...
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Letter: Federal factions 1
In the Cardiff-centric National Assembly, it is easy to forget the contribution that the four university colleges of Wales at Swansea, Bangor, Aberystwyth and Lampeter have made to Wales for more...
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Letter: Federal factions 2
Wales needs a federal university. The vision that established the University of Wales was strategically sound in 1893, and the issue of making the best use of inevitably limited resources to create a...
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Letter: Rankled by rankings
There are two major statistical problems in constructing league tables of research excellence using the research assessment exercise results ( THES , December 14). The first is in assigning numerical...
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Letter: Ethical balances 1
I believe in academic freedom and a researcher's right to study controversial topics ("Don't rock the research boat," THES , January 11), but no researcher has the right to assume that people exist...
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Letter: Ethical balances
I doubt if many members of self-styled "ethics" committees would know cant from Kant or soccer from Socrates. If all they offer is superfluous and often amateur advice on research methodology, why...
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Letter: Oxford's welcome
Godfrey Keller, a lecturer in economics at Oxford University, says he would have liked an induction course (Analysis, THES , January 4). The university provides a handbook about Oxford, its policies...
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Link to Corrected Version of Amended draft decision on the rules for the participation of undertakings, research centres and universities in the implementation of the framework programme 2002-2006 of
Brussels, 16 January 2002 Amended proposal for a COUNCIL DECISION concerning the rules for the participation of undertakings, research centres and universities in the implementation of the framework...
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German university seeks to re-establish links with Afghan researchers
Brussels, 16 January 2002 The University of Bonn is hoping to re-establish its long standing links with the University of Kabul, particularly with Afghan scientists. From the beginning of the 1960s,...
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ESA Director General Gives Evaluation of Ariane 510, Edinburg Ministerial, Other Events of 2001, Outlines Main Events of 2002
Paris, 16 January 2002 Early this morning, ESA's Director General held a press conference in Paris, where he recalled some of the highlights of 2001, and gave an overview of the main events to look...