Biting back
Although peer review has good points, a disadvantage is that it can descend into backbiting about perceived status. In Britain, snobbery is most pronounced between subtle gradations of class rather...
Although peer review has good points, a disadvantage is that it can descend into backbiting about perceived status. In Britain, snobbery is most pronounced between subtle gradations of class rather...
Nancy Rothwell (Opinion, April 30) suggests that the time is ripe to compare various metrics, such as citation counts, with research assessment exercise results. In fact, studies have already been...
Richard Wilson's letter (May 7) about UK postgraduates in poverty applies to many undergraduates. So why not let students who have low savings sign on with the Department of Social Security and also...
Northumbria University finds itself in a Catch-22. It has to reduce staff, but those who remain are overburdened and unable to take on more work ("Union to ballot on staff cuts", May 7). Northumbria...
Many academics will see this week's report on voluntary giving as just one more step down the slippery slope to anti-intellectual commercialism in universities. The culture of giving is quite...
When the 糖心Vlog Policy Institute produced its first projections of growth in student numbers over the rest of the decade, the figures were so large they were treated with considerable...
Grade inflation makes no difference to the outside world, but academics need to believe in the absoluteness of the A Among the hazards of teaching in an American university are the negotiations over...
Brussels, 12 May 2004 Tuesday 1st June 2004 Who? This Workshop is principally for researchers: With an interest in standardisation and/or Participating in an FP5 project already involving an element...
Brussels, 12 May 2004 The European Commission today adopted an EU strategy to help Europe to become world leader in the rapidly developing field of nanotechnology the science of the infinitely small...
Brussels, 12 May 2004 This conference will be hosted by the Utrecht Centre of Geosciences, on 6-9 July 2004 at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. It will be organised in the following seven...
Brussels, 12 May 2004 A major European conference on marine research got underway in Galway, Ireland, on 10 May, and following a spectacular opening ceremony, the 500 scientists and policy makers in...
Brussels, 12 May 2004 In the past, the term 'marine resources' has essentially been applied to one resource alone: fisheries. Indeed, as a source of economic activity and food, fish undoubtedly...
Brussels, 12 May 2004 Speaking in Brussels on 11 May 2004, Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin expressed his hope that a European Research Council (ERC) for fundamental research would be agreed...
Brussels, 12 May 2004 A workshop on 'performance assessment of public research, technology and development programmes' will take place in Brussels, Belgium, on 17 and 18 June. The event is being...
Brussels, 12 May 2004 Call for proposals for Marie Curie Research Training Networks (CORDIS) First deadline: 3 April 2003 Second deadline: 19 November 2003 - see the evaluation preliminary results DG...