Fight for doctorate blocked
A CALGARY researcher who is claiming unfair treatment by the Italian university authorities following a failed doctorate examination seven years ago is left with no apparent international recourse....
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Business elite head abroad
Gerard Valin has the task of steering France's top business school in an increasingly multinational direction into the new century. He arrived as the new director-general of Groupe ESSEC in January...
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Russians mug up on Latvian to gain status
THE citizenship dispute between Latvia and its former ruler Russia over rights for Soviet-era immigrants mean little to Gennady Ambalov and others like him working in a university system where, seven...
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The right to criticise
Janet Finch's rendition of "Stand by Your Man (and/or Woman)" ("In defence of CVCP", THES, August 7) is unconvincing. She is right to draw attention to the undoubted fact that some CVCP members lack...
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More RAE kickabout
Comparisons are frequently made between the football transfer market and the movement of top research staff between universities (THES, July 31), but the analogy should not be taken too far. Football...
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More RAE kickabout
I had hoped for a more considered reply on the RAE transfer market than that of my union general secretary, David Triesman (THES, August 7). He is right that the excesses should be curbed; but "...
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More RAE kickabout
I am a little bemused by the correspondence about the "RAE transfer market". Naively (or cynically), I assumed the RAE was intended to create a transfer market. It started life as a "research...
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Unsighted citations
John Rawlinson of the Royal Society says Alan Hirsch was not cited in ISI's Science Citation Index "because he publishes in biochemical journals and ISI doesn't recognise those" ("Citation circus...
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End Oxbridge MAs scam
I was pleased to see your story "Oxbridge MAs in danger" (THES, August 7). As someone who spent ten years in Cambridge, and who has one of these "degrees", I have long believed the system to be a...
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Labour's ghetto
Your opinion column (THES, July 31) stated that new Labour's Helen Liddell is "opposing the tide of Scottish Nationalism. In this higher education is likely to prove a useful ally. The universities...
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Soundbites not specialists speak most loudly
Media coverage of events in countries with unsavoury political regimes obscures the whole truth, argues Bill Watson Recent political events in Asia have been followed with keen attention by academic...
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Handling the genetic hot potatoes
Are genetically modified foods safe? Derek Burke, a former regulator, discusses the evidence and the risks Genetically modified foods have been entering British supermarkets over the past year. The...
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Don's Diary
Tuesday High days and holy days. For Degree Congregations Day One I choose jacket with firm top button so as not to be strangled by hood of academic dress (presumably designed with the male shirt in...
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Sorbonne sores are soothed
This has been a year of celebrations. The French have taken to the beaches with happy memories of their World Cup soccer triumph. The educational value of the tournament is something to think about....
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World beckons the narrow horizoned
Student friends talk wistfully about travelling around the world once their exams have finished, and a few of them even do it. I always ask why, plaintively, as I scrub them out of my social life for...