Associate staff snub
You ran an advertisement on July 8 from the Association of University Teachers suggesting that the Open University had agreed assimilation to the new pay plan. This is misleading - it relates to full...
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Online experience
While I agree with Helen Davey's point in her Soapbox column (July 1) that institutions should take some responsibility for incorporating work experience into the academic programme, students...
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Relatively long wait
Arthur Miller's article on Arthur Eddington (Features, July 15) is excellent on the Anglo-Saxon reception of news of the verification on November 7, 1919, of Einstein's theory. But this contrasts...
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Latin lore
While, as a lecturer in Latin, I agree with Roy Harris that Tore Janson's Natural History of Latin is a "dumbing down" unworthy of Oxford University Press (Books, July 15), I am surprised to find him...
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Customer is right
Shola Adenekan suggests that as students now pay fees tutors should be more understanding when it comes to granting extensions (Why II July 22). I think we should follow Poppleton's lead and award...
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Eccentrics welcome
Mary Evans argues that despite the feminine attributes demanded by the Quality Assurance Agency (Soapbox, July 22) women are undervalued in universities, but also says that "the worst excesses of...
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Popple-town?
What makes Poppleton a "city" if it lacks a cathedral (Laurie Taylor, July 22)? Douglas B. Kell Research chair in bioanalytical science Manchester University
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Has the pen lost its might?
Letter-writing could become a lost art in the age of e-mail, and future biographers will be denied a rich source of material. Olga Wojtas reports Graham Farmelo is profoundly grateful that long-...
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From the correspondence of four of academe's most brilliant minds
'Dear Arline, you, dead, are so much better than anyone else alive' Bertrand Russell To Lady Ottoline Morrell, March 18, 1912 My Darling Love, ...Wittgenstein came and stayed till after 12. We had a...
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Which one is deadlier - Bin Laden or a bicycle?
When road accidents claim many more lives than terrorist acts, why is the perceived threat of al-Qaeda so great? asks John Adams On an average day in Britain, nine people die and more than 800 are...
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The agony and ecstasy of singing for your supper
A US reality TV show gave cash-strapped contestants the chance to win an Ivy League scholarship but was dignity lost in the process? Stephen Phillips investigates Garfield and Lincoln," replies Davis...
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Oi, ref! 'Av you got perceptual flash lag or what?
Sean coughlan leads a warm-up for a sporting get-together Conference: 11th World Congress of Sport Psychology. August 15 to 19. Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, Sydney, Australia. Fee £334,...
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OECD Report on Governance of Innovation Systems: Vol. 1, Synthesis Report (link)
Paris, Jul 2005 This report is a synthesis of collaborative work in the Monitoring and Implementing National Innovation Policies (MONIT) Project. It builds upon earlier OECD work on national...
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OECD Updates Consistent Dataset of 19 Countries' R&D Statistics: ANBERD (Analytical Business Enterprise Research and Development) database
Paris, Jul 2005 The ANBERD (Analytical Business Enterprise Research and Development) database was developed to provide a consistent data set that overcomes the problems of international comparability...
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US report confirms rise of Asian research
Brussels, Jul 2005 A new report published in the US has underlined Asia's strengthening global position in research, revealing that the region is catching up with Europe and the US in terms of...