Underperform on pay 3
The belief that the £330 million of funding council money for recruiting and retaining staff ("Pay boost will come at a price", THES, January 24) has been "earmarked for staff pay" is wide of the...
The belief that the £330 million of funding council money for recruiting and retaining staff ("Pay boost will come at a price", THES, January 24) has been "earmarked for staff pay" is wide of the...
The argument for top-up fees ("Fees can be up to £3,000 - with Whitehall strings," THES , January 24) is based on flawed logic and a failure to learn from Australia, which introduced a similar higher...
A £20,000 debt is surely a disincentive to students from deprived backgrounds to study purely academic subjects, such as philosophy, and an incentive to follow vocational degrees, such as law. If we...
It is easy to force social compliance when most have gone to university and end up owing the government money? The consequence of undergraduate debt will be plummeting graduate recruitment. Result:...
It is ironic, if not irresponsible, to suggest we reassess our moral attitude to incest when we fear the family is under threat ("Heart steers head onto right track", THES , January 24). Our distant...
Bias against women in higher education is not new ("Bias cheats women out of places", THES , January 17). In the early 1970s, the Open University discovered that, despite its first-come, first-served...
Susan Palmer and Bryan Sentes ("Saviours of souls", THES , January 17) could have insisted on the common outlook of the Raelian cult and the scientific establishment. Most geneticists oppose...
Graham Farmelo (Books, THES , January 17) repeats the assertion that "Margaret Thatcher deserves credit for the role she surely played in securing Faraday's place on the English £20 note". It is not...
Brussels, 29 Jan 2003 Full text of Document 5045/03 No. prev. doc.: 5044/03 Subject: Public access to documents - confirmatory application by Mr Tony BUNYAN (1/03) Delegations will find enclosed a...
Brussels, 29 Jan 2003 A UK survey has found that the public are more likely to trust environmental or consumer groups than government advice on scientific issues. A poll for the University of East...
Geneva, 29 January 2003 Access to genetic resources regime of the United States National Parks. Communication from the United States. Council for Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights...
Brussels, 29 January 2003 In a few years time, all high-level radioactive waste in Europe should be buried deep underground. To check progress towards sustainable long-term nuclear waste management,...
Brussels, 29 Jan 2003 The second Agrosante forum on the relationship between healthy eating and healthy farming is taking place on 1 and 2 April in Beauvais, France. For several years, concerns about...
Brussels, 29 Jan 2003 The All Party Parliamentary Internet Group has held a public inquiry into communications data retention and the subsequent access to that data. It released its report at the UK...
Brussels, 29 Jan 2003 Full text of Document 205/03 Subject: Statement of revenue and expenditure for European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research (COST) - Provisional...