Displays of talent
A European consortium of academics and commercial companies is pushing ahead with the development of lower-cost and environmentally friendly display screens. The BigFED (Field Emission Displays)...
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Euro e-business
A print and online publishing venture was launched last week with the aim of highlighting Europe's perspective on global management and business issues. European Business Forum is a joint venture...
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OED access
The Oxford English Dictionary Online is now available at a reduced cost to further and higher education institutions in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Students and staff will benefit from unlimited...
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Oxbridge rancour not the route to broader system
Labour, it was said last week, needs "new enemies" as it bids to regain popular support from the demagogically inclined leader of the opposition, William Hague. And chancellor Gordon Brown's attack...
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A burden for youth
Andrew Oswald's article contains a fatal flaw. He writes that undergraduates should pay fees as their future reward will be greater, arguing that, after graduation, "my students will earn more than...
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Free minds by cutting the red tape of giving
US-style philanthropy would give our universities the boost they need to stay competitive, C. Duncan Rice says Each year Americans give more to charity than the rest of the world put together. The...
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A burden for youth
It seems important to remind Andrew Oswald ("Face fees or failure", Soapbox, THES, May 26) that most Americans do not attend private universities, such as Dartmouth or Harvard, but large state-run,...
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Watch this space
"Space boost for Kent University" would have been more accurate ("Kent university lost in space", THES, May 26). We have "lost" half a team to the Open University but will shortly replace them with...
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Watch those stats
Natfhe claims that women in their late 20s at City University are paid 16 per cent less than men of that age ("Sexism and ageism blight careers of female academics, says Natfhe", THES, May 26). The...
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Silence of illiteracy
Hassan Bouzidi's assessment of education in Morocco is gloomy (World View, THES, May 5). He says that more than half the population and 90 per cent of rural women are illiterate. But he does not...
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Bodies of learning
In successive editions of the Letters and Opinion columns of The THES we have had references to "academics working their balls off","the substantial proportion of academics who are "working their...
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Crowning point
I would like to make clear beyond any doubt that Queen's University, Belfast, is not supplanting its coat of arms with a new logo. The logo is additional to the coat of arms, which includes the crown...
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Curiosity doesn't pay
The antiquity of the problems academics face in raising money for their research, particularly if it is "curiosity-driven research" ("Labour policy poses threat to freedom", THES, March 26) is...
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Web can capture true RAE story
One of the rules of the game ("To win the global game, providers must pay to play", THES, May 26) should be transparency. We would all benefit if your "spirit of openness" was achieved in the...
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Web can capture true RAE story
I think this RAE thing should stay as it is ("That's one for me, 14 for you", Soapbox, THES, May 26), mainly because the forthcoming round is driving my lecturers crazy. I know one who keeps talking...