Fun with sadists 2
I note that a study of students has found that many Italian professors are believed to be sadists, while others are afflicted with neuroses or worse. Indeed, but the students have failed to...
I note that a study of students has found that many Italian professors are believed to be sadists, while others are afflicted with neuroses or worse. Indeed, but the students have failed to...
Hilda Brown ("Sex and the Hildabeast", THES , March 7) writes that "the five (Oxford) women's colleges played a heroic role in advancing higher education for women in the 20th century", but it is...
So the university access regulator has been set up to leaven the effete gene pool of Hooray Henries and Henriettas in our top universities with the odd bit of rough. Who cares? Those who've spent...
Oliver Letwin's contribution ("Why I... believe philosophy still matters", THES , February 28) shows the dangers of the widespread cynical attitude towards politics in Britain. A Popperian or...
Surely the first lesson to be drawn from the comparison of the endowment funds held by US and UK universities is that super-elite institutions utterly fail to deliver research and teaching in...
Your article on the transatlantic "endowment gap" surely misses the point. Most of the heavily endowed US universities mentioned are 19th-century private institutions that live or die by the success...
Steven Schwartz's article ("Can you pinpoint your boss?", THES , March 7) attempts to make the case for a more "business-like" model of university governance, but fails to convince. He states that "...
The responses to Steven Schwartz's article on the management of UK universities (Letters, THES March 14) were sadly predictable. They were also misguided in failing to recognise that universities are...
Roger Brown (Letters, THES , March 14) suggests that it may now be too late for any rational allocation of a stream of funding for research and scholarship. While it is to be hoped that this is not...
Advocates of the policy of taking cash from grade 4 departments to fund increases elsewhere fail to understand (or choose to ignore) the fact that the quality of research in a department rated 4a is...
Claire Sanders ("There's comfort in hanging on to your head", THES , March 14) implies in her opening paragraphs that no chancellor of Oxford University has yet been executed. This neatly gets round...
I was interested to learn that Giancarlo Nivoli of the University of Sassari in Italy considers that many of his compatriot colleagues suffer from mental illness and that this causes their students...
Brussels, 19 Mar 2003 Analysing the number and variety of scientific publications in Europe can help pinpoint the scientific strengths and weaknesses of individual countries. This is one of the...
Ecole Royale Militaire, Bruxelles, 19 mars 2003 Monsieur le Premier Ministre, Monsieur le Haut Représentant, Messieurs les Ministres, Messieurs les Généraux, Mesdames et...
Brussels, 19 Mar 2003 The Model Contract Working Group The Model Contract Working Group was set up by the research DGs to work on the drafting of model contracts for the new instruments for the Sixth...