Welsh wheeze in funding
The feature on Welsh higher education (THES, April 26) misses one development that is not a model for higher education elsewhere and should be of serious concern: output funding of part-time modules...
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Safeguarding science's foundations
Tony Trinci (THES, April 19) has summarised the problems of the academic science base in no uncertain manner. The system is designed to dissipate almost every act of creativity and innovation. Small...
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Safeguarding science's foundations
The recommendations about science research funding in universities from the NAPAG are worrying. Clearly, there is a worsening problem of funding science research in universities and, if the current...
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Brand in firing line
I write in protest against the decision of John Wiley & Sons to withdraw The g Factor from publication. The book may contain statements about the relations between race (whatever that is) and...
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Brand in firing line
We condemn the discredited and inflammatory views expressed by Edinburgh University psychologist Christopher Brand which claim authoritatively to degrade black people and women. Would there be such "...
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Doctoral thesis
I share the concerns expressed in the article "Job cuts to mean worse doctors" (THES, April 26). But why are so many medical schools opting for a curriculum based on problem-based learning ? This is...
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First wash your hands
British academics are novices when it comes to rattling the tin at the door of big business, while Americans think nothing of pocketing seven-figure cheques. Last year, Harvard received a single...
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Better not just richer
There are now as many students in the United Kingdom taking higher education courses in further education colleges as there were higher education students in total when Lord Robbins's committee...
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Honorary degree for Qiao Shi
In Saskatchewan an honorary degree for the former head of China's secret police has proved controversial. Qiao Shi, now chairman of China's National Congress, did not, however, decide to decline his...
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Why Teesside is bad for your health
Why do pregnant women smoke? The question is one of several puzzles to be unravelled by the centre for health and medical research opening at Teesside University. Director Peter Kelley says that the...
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No flies on Sussex robotic scientists
The normal response to the buzz of two flies forever chasing each other around a lamp is to swat them. But for researchers at Sussex University the flies' behaviour is a source of amazement. It...
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Helmet helps dyslexics
A Swedish exchange student at the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen has developed a helmet that will help research into the problem of dyslexia in children. Johannes Linnman has won first prize in...
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Dawkins lecture
Richard Dawkins, the outspoken proponent of natural selection as the sole machinery of biological development, last week launched his latest attempt to persuade the world that no religious...
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Quality-funds link fear
College heads are alarmed at indications that the English funding council is paving the way towards a direct link between quality judgements and funding. In a written version of his speech to last...