Grants
UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE European funds Professor R. Herbert, Pounds 122,499 from the European Commission environment programme (study of programme of role of buffering capacities in stabilising coastal...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS Paul Mitchell, formerly at the University of Manchester business school, has been appointed to a chair in the business school. Goldsmiths College University of London The...
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Appointments
MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY Michael Driscoll, deputy vice chancellor since 1995, professor and head of the school of economics, succeeds David Melville as vice chancellor of theuniversity. University of...
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Awards
THE ROYAL SOCIETY The recommendations of the council have been approved for the award of three Royal Medals for 1996: A. Wiles, professor of mathematics at Princeton University, United States, in...
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Promotions
UNIVERSITY OF EXETER The following senior lecturers have been promoted: Antony Brown, reader in physical geography and geoarchaeology; Robert Burn, reader in mathematics education; Nicholas Grief,...
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Police search premises of Sight and Sound Education Ltd
Police searched seven premises of Sight and Sound Education Ltd in London last Friday as part of an investigation about fraudulent claims for awarding NVQs. A large quantity of material was seized...
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First impressions
This week's First Impressions is from the best-known work of a famous American recluse: "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and...
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A seeker of truth in a tortured world
Anthropology and Politics
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Theists' inverted quest
Keith Ward's attempt to portray himself as a persecuted seeker of truth deserves comment (THES, October 11). First, it is misleading to lump theology with the humanities and to see the well-deserved...
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Benefits for porters and professors
The report on page three and editorial on page 11 (THES, October 11) contained misinformation and the blurring of two distinctive projects on applications of competence models to higher education....
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Benefits for porters and professors
Your leader and article mix two separate issues. Further, the leader misses the key rationale behind the COMCON project, that all employers in the European Union have an obligation to justify the...
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Thesis theories
The United Kingdom Council for Graduate Education's conclusion that the traditional PhD thesis may be out of date (THES, September ) is surely fallacious. It does not follow that "differences in the...
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Thesis theories
Andrew Morgan's letter about an article on the UK Council for Graduate Education's report on the PhD by published work (THES, October 11) shows that he has much to say about doctoral work but has...
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Why the NHS is a perverse role model
I did not know whether to laugh or cry when I read David Albury's piece last week (THES, October 11). It is based on so many misperceptions and inaccuracies, and displays such a defective...
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Why the NHS is a perverse role model
David Albury proposes a radical restructuring of academic life. Staff would become independent contractors, who bid for work from managers, who would specify courses and research programmes to meet...