Brussels, 11 Nov 2004 Full text of Document 4136/04 1. GALILEO­ Communication to the European Parliament and the Council "Moving to the deployment and operation phases of the European...
Paris, 11 Nov 2004 Photos These images, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft, are Europe's highest-resolution pictures so far of the Martian moon...
Luxembourg, 6 November 2004 Action brought on 29 July 2004 by Athanasios Pitsiorlas against the Council of the European Union and the European Central Bank (Case T-337/04) Official Journal...
From: The Office of the Vice-Chancellor Subject: World Rankings Following the recent publication by The Times Higher of the so-called World University Rankings, my office has received a number of...
The more lurid speculation about £500,000 fines and refusals to sanction top-up fees is all but put to rest in this week's guidance on access agreements and the supporting comments of Sir Martin...
It is difficult to argue with the principle behind the Treasury's proposals for closer monitoring of research funding. The Chancellor has boosted the science budget by billions of pounds and he wants...
Your top 200 ranking (World University Rankings, November 5) needs some refinement to allow for performance relative to funding. Until June 2002, I was an associate professor at the University of the...
It is pretty obvious that big, rich countries have a large and strong university sector, but what if the effects of size and wealth are discounted? One way to do this is to regress national total...
Subscribing to The Times Higher has much to recommend it: for example, not getting the "free inside" offers meant not getting the World University Rankings booklet. The Times Higher always stayed...
With regard to research performance, the most objective measure must be the citations/faculty score. This is consistently higher for US over UK institutions. But the difference between the highest...
"US dominates worldwide league tables". How can that be? They do not have the RAE. R. J. Wootton Llanbadarn Fawr
For two weeks I waited for the expected flood of responses to Christie Davies's scurrilous piece (Soapbox, October 15) about abandoning our efforts to teach science. Yet not a single reply has...
Have those older professors who convince themselves that they were appointed in a halcyon era of rigour and professionalism ever taken the trouble to read Lucky Jim ? Chris Hackley Royal Holloway
Would it really be sensible to replace degree classes by some other system, supposedly objective and more fine-grained? Percentage marks do not and should not possess the kind of objectivity that...
John Curran is right to point out the variation in the methods by which honours classifications are calculated. That is not new. Ten years ago, the Student Assessment and Classification Working Group...