Minister told to act over science threat
MPs this week accused science minister Lord Sainsbury of being "astonishingly laid-back" about the threat of closure hanging over many university physical science departments. The House of Commons...
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UK ahead of rivals in technology transfer
UK university technology transfer is in robust shape despite the global economic downturn and a fall in the number of spin-off companies from British universities, according to a comprehensive survey...
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What's up and what's down
* A total of 561 full-time staff worked on technology-transfer activity at UK universities in 2002, an average of six per institution * A total of 158 spin-offs were created in 2002 * Fifty spin-offs...
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Spin-offs are only part of the story of industry links
Exeter University In the late 1980s, Exeter University had a lucrative royalty deal for an anti-cancer drug with a pharmaceutical company. The income was shared between the inventors and...
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Laurie Taylor Column
I see that the AUT is calling for a strike. Excellent news. About time we showed a bit of industrial muscle. We've let the bastards trample over us for far too long. It's going to call out all its 47...
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Laurie Taylor Column
I see that the AUT is calling for a strike. Excellent news. About time we showed a bit of industrial muscle. We've let the bastards trample over us for far too long. It's going to call out all its 47...
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Leader: Howard should choose principle over populism
For a new Conservative spokesman to argue, as Tim Yeo did this week, that he needed time to review existing policies before confirming his support for them would seem perfectly reasonable. But when...
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Leader: Howard should choose principle over populism
For a new Conservative spokesman to argue, as Tim Yeo did this week, that he needed time to review existing policies before confirming his support for them would seem perfectly reasonable. But when...
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Will HMC accusers stand up? 1
I am alarmed at the accusations and innuendoes surrounding Harris Manchester College, Oxford, and its principal Ralph Waller. What began as a legitimate complaint by disgruntled graduates and their...
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Will HMC accusers stand up? 2
Juxtaposition of facts can mislead ("Row over freedom of speech at Oxford", THES , November 7). You report that I "was not prepared to make" inquiries about the 30 alumni signatories to an open...
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At odds over pay
David Fysh and Alan Carr are at odds with other union colleagues and employers over the lecturers' pay offer (Letters, THES , November 7). The framework agreement offers increases of between 7.7 and...
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Hands off science 1
The pressure group Sense About Science is not a force of enlightenment (Opinion, THES , November 7) but yet another vested-interest group aiming to crush dissent. This one automatically labels as "...
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Hands off science 2
Martin Conway and Andrew Young (Soapbox, THES , October 31) describe the potentially disastrous move to downgrade psychology as a science subject. In 1965, I was appointed to develop psychology at...
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Subject to confusion
Lord Puttnam and subject lobby groups should understand the Higher Education Funding Council for England's methodology before shooting off scare stories (Letters, THES , November 7). First, the...
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No smoke, no fire
Gillian Evans' comment on the outcome of the Quality Assurance Agency's audit of the University of Cambridge (Letters, THES , November 7) is as misleading as the headline ("Watchdog mauls LBS and...