Let's cheer QAA plan
The Quality Assurance Agency's future policy, as outlined by chief executive Peter Williams, is the third attempt in 100 years to put a buffer between state and universities ("Rest assured we will...
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Poorer families
The university admissions debate has focused on students' secondary school experience, whether state or public. The inference is that, once matriculated, young people enter a level playing field. But...
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Regional voices 1
My university is attempting to put into practice the very brand of governance Steven Schwartz advocates (Soapbox, THES , March 7). A small management group consisting of the vice-chancellor, pro vice...
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Regional voices 2
I did not speak of "opposition" from Welsh vice-chancellors and councils to mergers at the recent hearing of the Welsh Assembly's education and lifelong learning committee as you report ("Progress...
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Regional voices 3
Why is Northern Ireland ignored in your editorial identifying the fees dilemma for devolved institutions in Wales and Scotland arising from the white paper ("England's plans test the strength of...
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Recount the cash
Your grant allocations analysis ("Winners and losers in research cash stakes" THES , March 7) used information issued in March 2002 to calculate teaching resource allocated in 2003 relative to 2002....
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Quote unquoted
The report on the decision to allow Suresh Deman to resurrect his claims for racial discrimination against the Association of University Teachers did not carry a quote the AUT provided ("Race-bias...
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Categorical change
News that up to 400,000 Jews served in the armies of the Third Reich (Books, THES , March 21) throws a sidelight on the observation in Jeffrey Kaplan's Encyclopedia of White Power that "a surprising...
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Trick doesn't add up
Hansjorg Geiges states that the magician's 1089 trick (Books, THES , March 14) works for any three-digit number: "No matter which number the audience chooses". This is incorrect as the trick fails...
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Give us a tax break
C. Duncan Rice suggests one form of tax break applicable to endowments (Soapbox, THES , March 21). Perhaps a more immediate effect could be achieved by modifying the Treasury rules pertaining to...
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Today's news
Lord Birt tipped to become access regulator Wanted: aspiring bureaucrat to head the Orwellian "Access Regulator" that will make universities take more disadvantaged students. Step forward...
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Commission keeps ear to the ground with NEST programme
Brussels, 25 Mar 2003 The new and emerging science and technology (NEST) programme is an opportunity for the research community to tell us what is important, said William Cannell, head of unit for...
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Germany to support innovative production process projects
Brussels, 25 Mar 2003 The German Ministry of Education and Research is calling for innovative projects aimed at speeding up the production process and making it safer. The projects will be funded...
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EU funds university course in telecommunications and distributed systems
Brussels, 25 Mar 2003 Funding from the European Social Fund (ESF) is available for students wishing to study for an advanced Masters in telecommunications and distributed systems at the University of...
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ESA's free-fall laboratory poised to escape gravity's grip
Paris, 25 Mar 2003 This 'Zero-G' Airbus A300 parked on the tarmac at Bordeaux-Mérignac Airport is really a laboratory with wings. Within a week a dozen scientific teams will be aboard it as it...