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Who's in who's out?
BRUNEL The Texas Chainsaw Massacre may not be to everyone's taste but it helped turn Xavier Mendik into one of the world's leading academic experts on cult movies. Mr Mendik, course convener for the...
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Bristol leads culture change
Half of research-only staff at Bristol University are now on permanent contracts, putting the university firmly ahead of the rest of the sector in the long-running battle to wipe out casualisation...
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ESA's Integral Observatory identifies supernova rate for Milky Way
ESA's Integral Observatory identifies supernova rate for Milky Way Paris, 05 Jan 2006 Illustrations Using ESA's Integral observatory, an international team of researchers has been able to confirm the...
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Agenda of the Galileo Special Committee - Negotiations with Korea, 12 January
Brussels, 05 Jan 2006 Full text of Document 5/06 [Public Info Net automatically generates links to Council Register documents where an appropriately formatted document number is given. However, the...
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Today's news
Johnson hits the web in search of student guidance Boris Johnson, the recently appointed Shadow Minister for Higher Education, has gingerly dipped his toe into the academic debate with an appeal for...
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Laurie Taylor Column
New Year Message from the Vice-Chancellor Chief Executive Welcome back from the long vacation. I trust your batteries are now fully recharged. But before we embark on the good ship 2006, let's look...
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Leader: 2006 new year evolution: shape up for change
This promises to be a crunch year for UK higher education - or perhaps the first of a series of crunches. Filling places in the new era of top-up fees will head the worry list for many universities...
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Banking on postgrads
There are responsibilities, not just riches, in seeing postgraduates as the best source for future income ("The postgrad cashpot", December 16). Postgraduate students are vital for the research...
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Surplus slips away
"No move on pensions" (December 9), reports that the latest official valuation of Universities Superannuation Scheme showed a surplus of £5 billion. The realistic figure (as reported on the USS...
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Uses and abuses of user research 1
Martin Bulmer is right to draw attention to the questionable quality of some participant research on disability issues ("Research by public could be 'unreliable'", December 16). I was involved in...
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Uses and abuses of user research 2
The article on research by the public confuses a number of arguments made in relation to a range of research discussed at the Social Research Association conference that can be called participatory....
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Uses and abuses of user research 3
Following up on the report on the lack of funding for research in higher education ("HE research is ideas rich but cash poor", December 16), there is also a lack of opportunities for systematic...
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Faith in the theory 1
Steve Fuller makes a cogent case for intelligent design theory, but not a scientific one ("Schools for the Enlightenment or epiphany?", December 23/30). His presupposition is a common belief in the...
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Faith in the theory 2
I think it was Thomas Kuhn who commented that science education was a "dogmatic initiation into a pre-established tradition", which is probably as true today as it was 40 years ago. It would be nice...