Red-tape burden cut for research grant-winners
Councils' plan to cut paperwork raises questions over accountability. Zoe Corbyn reports
Search
-
-
EPSRC cuts to blue-skies funding raise concern
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has confirmed that funding for curiosity-driven research is to be reduced by as much as 15 per cent."Within our fixed budget we ... anticipate a...
-
Part-time employees
Since 1 July 2000 and the introduction of the Part Time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations, part-time workers have had the right not to be treated less favourably than...
-
Our V-C Tops the League
League tables haven't always favoured our university, but hats were thrown in the air last week when the news came through that our vice-chancellor topped the 2006-07 annual salaries table. His...
-
End this mass delusion
Alan Ryan suggests Mr Denham revisit an example of quality and opportunity
-
Leader: Sharing a banquet of knowledge
There is no single recipe for successful cross-disciplinary centres. Lunch, however, seems to be an essential ingredient
-
Walter Spear, 1921-2008
Walter Spear, whose work laid the foundations for a key part of today's multibillion-pound photovoltaic industry, died on 21 February, aged 87. His pioneering research in thin film, large area...
-
Rights and wrongs of university pay points 1
The danger of making pay comparisons over time ("How much are you worth?", 13 March) is highlighted in my own career.I was appointed to a foundation social science chair at the University of...
-
Rights and wrongs of university pay points 2
The correct salary figure for Geoff Whitty, director of the Institute of Education, should be £193,826. This excludes a refund of pension contributions made following an earlier overpayment of...
-
Rights and wrongs of university pay points 3
The figure provided by the Higher Education Statistics Agency for the pay of senior lecturers/lecturers does not reflect the true position at the University of Oxford because it does not include...
-
Rights and wrongs of university pay points 4
Buried in your analysis of academic pay is the statement that the average salary for male professors is £66,282 while that for their female counterparts is £62,261. It is surely worth underlining...
-
Farmers and GM research
Congratulations on a balanced article that highlights the Economic and Social Research Council's handling of a study of farmers' opinions on GM crops ("ESRC is criticised for 'biased' study", 13...
-
Formula for hollow mirth
Philip Esler (Letters, 13 March) says that your report ("RCUK abandons impact formula", 6 March) and my opinion article ("What price knowledge?, 6 March), "exaggerate" the volte-face by Research...
-
The real face of campus life 1
John Brinnamoor asks for realism in the university prospectus ("Not quite as advertised: college scarves and shameless flannel", 13 March). He would do well to remember that tale by Borges about the...
-
The real face of campus life 2
It should be easy to find photogenic women on our campuses. A glance at media coverage every August - or even page 19 of the very issue of Times Higher Education in which John Brinnamoor writes -...