No sympathy for Oxford blues 1
I was bemused to read that Oxford University has finally decided (sort of) to take its postgraduates seriously, the way the institutions that it compares itself to (Harvard, Yale, Princeton) have...
I was bemused to read that Oxford University has finally decided (sort of) to take its postgraduates seriously, the way the institutions that it compares itself to (Harvard, Yale, Princeton) have...
Your editorial on the future of Oxford ( THES , June 20) declares that those who wish it to become more like an Ivy League university, with more postgraduates and a greater emphasis on research, "...
While it is true that Oxford is an extremely crowded place in which to try to expand, £40 million has just been spent purchasing the Radcliffe Infirmary site and £60 million allocated for its...
Paul Mackney, general secretary of Natfhe, has tried to justify his support of lecturers who refuse to teach students on political grounds ("A violent reaction", THES , June 20) after critical...
We write to express dismay about the decision of Durham University this week to shut its East Asia department. Staff were formally told about the proposal only six days before it was due to be...
According to Gordon Graham "The work of Isaac NewtonI contributes nothing to economic prosperity". As the whole of mechanics (engines and machinery of all types) follows from Newton's laws of motion...
Richard Evans misses the biggest question in history ("Our job is to explain; it is for others to judge", THES , June 13). Finding "the truth" in the facts of history reveals a failure to understand...
Chris Durston's letter ( THES , June 13) about how small amounts of research assessment exercise cash can be put to good use highlights the value of many 3A units. It also points out that some...
Gordon Graham ("Society will never survive on bread and circuses alone", THES , June 20) defends pure mathematics as stimulating and maintaining society's intellectual life. But I suspect that most...
Canadian universities have become increasingly reliant on private sources of revenue as public-funding cutbacks hit core financing, according to government figures.From 1986 to 2001, state funding...
Brussels, 25 Jun 2003 Taking a concept for an innovative product or process and making it a commercial success can be a risky and drawn out process, especially when such a concept involves a large...
Brussels, 25 Jun 2003 Berkley Associates, together with Walker Associates, are organising an intensive one day briefing on management of Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) integrated projects (IPs) on...
Brussels, 25 Jun 2003 French industrialist Michel Vieillefosse will begin a three year term as head of the EUREKA Secretariat on 1 July, it was announced during the recent EUREKA's Inter-...
Brussels, 19 June 2003 OPINION of the European Economic and Social Committee on the Green Paper on European Space Policy COM(2003) 17 final Full text of Opinion in MS Word file on ESC website [...]...
Brussels, 25 Jun 2003 Bringing innovation successfully to the market place was again illustrated during EUREKA's annual awards ceremony on 23 June. The POLADIA project, which has developed diagnostic...