Brussels, 24 Nov 2005 The third conference on research infrastructure in Europe will take place in Nottingham, UK, on 6 and 7 December. Jointly organised by the British Central Laboratory of the...
Brussels, 24 Nov 2005 The 21st European photovoltaic solar energy conference and exhibition will take place in Dresden, Germany, from 4 to 8 September 2006. Experts in the field will meet at Dresden...
How's it going? Couldn't be better. More and more teaching. More and more administration. And the research assessment exercise on the horizon. Happy days are here again. There's no need to be quite...
The Times Higher 's first foray into the world of awards has been encouraging and eye-opening. The response has not only demonstrated the extraordinary range of high-quality work taking place in UK...
Stephen Phillips investigates the elusive world of bogus internet degrees and finds customers in high placesTo judge by the picture on its homepage, Robertstown University was grand, palatial even....
I take issue with the contention in the Foster inquiry that "the majority of colleges should stop dabbling in higher education" ("Colleges' mixed report", November 18). No one would argue with Sir...
Sir Andrew Foster's report suggested that the majority of colleges should stop "dabbling" and focus on what they do best - delivering skills and employability to their students. Colleges rarely make...
I am a former prisoner of the Stasi (the East German secret police) who was held in December 1983 in the infamous Hohenschonhausen Prison in Berlin on trumped-up charges of treason against an...
Anthony Glees claims that no one challenged The Stasi Files ' integrity when it appeared. I did and added that I would not honour it even with a bad review. I sent a detailed refutation to The...
Students are neither customers ("persons who buy"), nor consumers ("persons who purchase goods or services") - they are clients ("persons who seek the advice of a professional man or woman"). Sir...
Your correspondents (Letters, November 18) make some telling points against Sir Howard Newby's call for a more businesslike approach to student "customers" rather than the old-fashioned university "...
There are still many UK academics capable of excellent social research. And what do our human resource directors do? They conduct totally discredited "employee satisfaction surveys" then pay unknown...
I was perplexed by your article "Politician warns Welsh will flock to leave unless alliance shifts" (November 18), about the federal University of Wales. This year's "moves... to allow (member...
The Times Higher has carried stories about the Quality Assurance Agency's criticisms of the two great federal universities, London and Wales. In each case, auditors questioned how far the university...
I see that once again Imperial College London is threatening to leave the federal structure of the University of London. Time, surely, for some old-time Stalinism here. Why doesn't the university...