Society plea to tether Ropas
The Royal Society this week urged the Government to halt further expansion of a multimillion pound research initiative until the quality of the work already funded is established. Launched in 1994/95...
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Don't belittle teaching duties
Laurie Taylor (THES, July 26) quotes Graham Zellick, vice chancellor, University of London: "The highest quality in research is intrinsically more important than the highest quality in teaching."...
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Doctorates in need of new direction
A redefinition of PhDs is urgently needed to end confusion among postgraduates and avoid an international downgrading of British research degrees, according to the National Postgraduate Committee....
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Top-up fees:a breach of contract?
Universities are seeking legal advice about the implications of a rapid implementation of top-up fees. The issue is officially on hold until after the next Budget, following which the Committee of...
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Duty and the beasts
Thanks to BSE fears over food have rarely been greater. But they have not been matched by an outcry over the fate of the cattle destroyed. Are concerns about the welfare of animals and the philosophy...
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Not making Llosa sense
Why was Vargas Llosa's use of the expression "complete buggles" for the influence of Derrida and Lacan a linguistic error (THES, July 26)? Given Vargas Llosa's command of English, and his literary...
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Software to combat disasters
University scientists have designed a unique computer software package to help avert such tragedies as the Heysel Stadium disaster, the recent bomb explosion in Atlanta, or even the Estonia sinking....
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Raising the roof on the mists of time
A Bronze Age timber house on stilts is being reconstructed for the first time in nearly 2,000 years, in a loch. Nicholas Dixon, research fellow in archaeology at Edinburgh University, and his team...
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English hold own in world maths league
English university entrants maintained their high achievements in maths and science relative to other countries over 20 years, according to an international round-up of educational achievement....
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By the horns
(Photograph) - Picture by Huw Evans By the horns: David Barrow, senior research associate at University of Wales College of Cardiff, removes a longhorn cow from the campus quadrangle during filming...
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Yiddish at SOAS
Yiddish is to be taught by London University's School of Oriental and African Studies following a deal with the Oxford Institute for Yiddish Studies. Oxford staff will teach language and literature...
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Wood that they had their just desserts
Tony Wood, vice chancellor at Luton (THES, July 26) ingenuously assumes that it is axiomatic that institutions such as his which have vastly and autonomously increased their student numbers, in some...
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UACE attacks Euro blueprint
The Universities Association for Continuing Education has condemned the European Commission's white paper on teaching and learning as "too modest" in its policy proposals. UACE, which represents 104...
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Party spokesman seeks Labour seat
Labour party further and higher education spokesman Bryan Davies is still without a seat in which to fight the next election after being defeated in the selection battle for Wythenshawe and Sale. Mr...