Letter: RAE stacks odds 2
Is undergraduate teaching a major contributor to high-quality research in the sciences - as was considered by the Robbins report in the 1960s - or an encumbrance? Using 1996 figures from the Higher...
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Letter: RAE stacks odds 3
Historians at Huddersfield also raised their RAE score from 3a to 5 but without recourse to professional sleuths. Nor was it viewed as achieving the "almost impossible". Rather it was the outcome of...
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Leader: Spend on research, not its Byzantine grading
The Higher Education Funding Council for England's decision to cut all but 5* research in this year's funding allocations has understandably provoked uproar. Was it for this that so many people...
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Leader: Up fees for rich and help the poor - and do it now
MORI's latest opinion poll for Unite has two particularly striking findings - apart, that is, from the astronomical amount a minority of students spends on drink. First, most of today's students...
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Myth-making in silence
Fascination with feral man represents the tension we feel between our 'savage' and 'civilised' natures. Karen Gold reports. In 1735, Carl Linnaeus, the Swedish botanist and father of biological...
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When you are dealing with matters of life and death, emotions tend to run high
A centre dedicated to the study of Ireland's belief systems, identities and traditions is an important step in finding some common ground among the region's estranged populations, argues Robert Welch...
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Tip-toeing in classrooms soothes the raw nerves
At Ulster University, students tread softly to avoid offending those with deep-held convictions, writes Elisabeth Lillie. Political events confirm the durability of the divisions in Northern Irish...
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Study hatred, and healing might follow
I was recently reading the essays of the great Argentinian Jorges Luis Borges, and I came across a remarkable piece titled The Concept of an Academy and the Celts , which outlined the curious...
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Play smarter, use your head
Football is waking up to the fact that players need to pursue goals off as well as on the pitch. Matthew Baker reports. The path to higher education is not one that has been traditionally trodden by...
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Chance of eternal life for chosen few folios
Print on demand is set to revolutionise the way scholarly books are produced. Mandy Garner finds out how the OUP is preparing for the future Niko Pfund speaks with the zeal of a convert. "Print on...
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Is marriage a human right?
Next week, Oxford University will host the first in a series of Oxford Amnesty International lectures - sponsored by The THES - on sex rights and the difficulties of promoting such issues in non-...
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FP6 for research sent to EP, with statements from Council, Commission and member states
Brussels, 30 January 2002 Proposal for a Decision of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the Sixth Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological...
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Prior information on study to evaluate integration of sustainability into Community policies
Brussels, 30 January 2002 The European Commission has issued prior information on a call for tender for an evaluation of the approaches to integrate sustainability into Community policy. The...
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Informal Seminar of EU Ministers for Industry and Research seeks to boost innovation
Brussels, 30 January 2002 The Spanish Presidency of the EU is organising the first ever joint meeting of EU Ministers for Industry and Research in an informal seminar to be held in S’Agaró (Girona)...
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Improving mobility in the city through research
Brussels, 30 January 2002 Invitation to a Press Conference Brussels - European Parliament, 31 January 2002, 11.00 Every citizen dreams of spending less time in traffic jams, away from polluted air,...