Brussels, 08 Sep 2004 The European Commission has published a corrigendum for its call for tenders on examining the design of research programmes. The deadline for requesting tender documents has...
From : The Office of the Vice-Chancellor To : All Academic Staff I understand that questions have been raised about academic pay at Poppleton after an analysis by The Times Higher of average salaries...
Next week's annual meeting of Universities UK should have been a quiet affair -the calm before the storm, perhaps, with vice-chancellors celebrating good news from the spending review and keeping...
The British Association for the Advancement of Science did well to choose "responsibility and science" as the theme for its meeting this week in Exeter. In the modern world, people are surrounded by...
Some A levels are easier to obtain than others, according to research by Peter Tymms, ("Study calls for grading reform", September 3). In particular, sociology is identified as "easier" than 16 other...
Some A-level subjects are easier than others based on comparisons with GCSE results? Are we assuming all GCSEs are equally difficult but not all A levels? This could go on for some time. Richard Kamm...
Your report on the pulping of an official history by London Metropolitan University came as no surprise ("Book pulped at LondonMet", August ). The university appears to make a habit of banning books...
Even by your standards, the article concerning the indus-trial dispute at this university marks a new low in journal-istic integrity and cannot go unchallenged ("V-c: I will sack rebel staff",...
John Wakeford (Letters, September 3) is right to point out that plagiarism isn't confined to undergraduates. The online guidelines for essay writing produced by the School of Art History and...
What goes around comes around. Almost 30 years ago, while seconded to the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals, I devised an approach that resembles what became known as activity-based...
I normally have no objection to league tables where City University is in the top group, such as yours on average academic salaries (News, September 3). If this is true I am pleased - high performers...
Could the explanation for the gender inequalities in higher education pay and the wider human-resource malpractices described by Peter Nolan (Soapbox, September 3) possibly lie in the proposed pay...
You say that I have criticised my university's policy on the admission of disabled students ("Middlesex disability policy is censured", August ). This is not true. I have never criticised our policy...
Alan Smithers (Letters, September 3) has a fuzzy view of psychology. I too am a chartered psychologist who first earned his living as a research scientist. When I moved to research on human life, I...
Your note about the regulations for degree-awarding powers and university title perpetuates a confusion ("Title up for grabs", August ). You say that for the title of university "institutions will...