Rid science of secrecy culture 1
The government chief scientific adviser, Sir David King, is I hope more aware of the serious way "business cash skews university science" than his remarks reported from a Royal Society meeting imply...
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Rid science of secrecy culture 2
Technology transfer as described in the profile of Susan Searle ("Imperial mint maker", THES, March 28) forms only a part of the spectrum of valuable and dynamic activities that occur at the academic...
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Pro-war protest 1
Meghnad Desai ("The UN must swap living in the past for the real world", THES, April 4) and Alan Read write two very different but related articles on the war in Iraq. Read suggests that academics...
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Pro-war protest 2
The threatened closure of departments of Middle Eastern, African and Asian studies, despite healthy student intakes and widely acclaimed research, is ill-judged given the events in the Middle East....
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We need copyright
The duration of UK copyright was increased from 50 to 70 years not, as Chris Bunting writes ("Why should 'dead authors' descendants steal the livelihood of living writers", THES, April 4), because of...
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Code is a good start
Claire Milne (Why I, THES, April 4) takes a narrow approach to disability discrimination legislation affecting universities. Institutions should act in the spirit of the law, not simply follow the...
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Vilified a second time
When mature students are being squeezed out of higher education, comments by industry leaders that widening participation "waters down degrees" are badly timed ("Industry hits out at diluted degree...
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Symbols of closure
Paul Gough is wrong to say that "not until after the second world war do we find examples of public artworks that are exclusively intended to promulgate ideas of peace" ("Can peace be set in stone...
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'Crazy' challenge
Your headline "'Crazy Land' ponders big revamp for humanities" ( THES, March 28) is gratuitous and misleading. It suggests that Canada and/or the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of...
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Safe distance for now 1
Michael Burleigh's failure to brandish the intellectual scalpel that so beguiled Stanford University is less worrying than his shouting at the establishment from an international distance ("Few of...
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Safe distance for now 2
Excoriation of the dismal state of British universities is all very well, Michael Burleigh, but you must make it clear who or what you are excoriating. The drinking culture of British students? The "...
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Safe distance for now 3
If Michael Burleigh is only a visiting professor at Stanford, then presumably some lucky British university will be having him back. I bet his colleagues can't wait. Russell Moseley University of...
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Platform to support development of research policies
Brussels, 09 Apr 2003 The European Commission has published a prior information notice for a call for tenders for the creation of a platform to support the development of research policies in Europe...
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Assessment of the impact of research training network projects under FP4 and FP5
Brussels, 09 Apr 2003 The European Commission has published a prior information notice regarding a call for assessments of the impact of research training network (RTN) projects financed under the...
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Prior information notice - various studies
Brussels, 09 Apr 2003 The European Commission has issued a prior information notice for series of studies. The studies referred to in the notice are the following: - To enlarge the European Research...