Letter: No China crisis
Phil Baty's interpretation of the Quality Assurance Agency report on the University of Wales College, Newport's collaborative links with China is different from mine ("QAA wary of China ambitions",...
Phil Baty's interpretation of the Quality Assurance Agency report on the University of Wales College, Newport's collaborative links with China is different from mine ("QAA wary of China ambitions",...
Little more than two years ago, The THES published my letter on sales of books identical to those in the Turner Collection, which the University of Keele secretly sold in the summer of 1998 for £1...
Thank heavens Adrian Mourby has disabused us of the notion that Indiana Jones portrays the archaeological profession ("If only quality assurance were this sexy", THES , January 4.) Everyone knows...
I note that funds are available for research into bioterrorism ("Researchers join war on terror", THES , January 4). Are there also funds to investigate the roots of terrorism or solutions to the...
We should indeed, as Richard ffrench-Constant suggests (see "UK risks patent foul-up"), be learning from Warf, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. The first lesson is that we have a lot of...
Wales's federal university is under attack on two fronts. Members of the National Assembly are sceptical about the federal structure, regarding it as expensive and counterproductive, while Cardiff...
Keith Thomson believes that there are too many museums and that they cost too much money. The answer, he tells Caroline Davis, is a clear out and a decent business plan. Keith Thomson, director of...
Soccer fan Steve Braunias is tackling the literature of the beautiful game on an Oxford fellowship. Huw Richards reports It would be possible to start a lively debate as to which of "football...
Science has entered the realm of motion - scholarly analyses of the forces, angles and vectors of what many of us came to appreciate as "natural" playground moves are rife throughout British...
There can be no doubting the popularity of sports science as a subject to study at undergraduate level in Britain. Many are interested in it because of its multidisciplinary nature. Unfortunately,...
Geoff Watts asks whether the Wellcome Trust should have paid nearly £2 million for Francis Crick's papers and ponders the impact of email on the future of archives. The alarm was sounded about six...
Two of the United Kingdom's biggest cancer charities are to merge next month. Tony Durham looks at the benefits. Next month a giant new cancer charity, Cancer Research UK, will arise from the merger...
Brussels, 8 January 2002 European Co-operation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research. 146th Meeting of the Committee of Senior Officials for Scientific and Technical Research (COST)....
Brussels, 8 January 2002 Economic integration of urban consumers' demand and rural forestry production Draft Memorandum of Understanding for the implementation of a concerted European research action...
Draft summary conclusions of the 280th meeting of the Scientific and Technical Research Committee (CREST), held in Brussels on 22 and 23 November 2001. Note to CREST delegations. Brussels, 21...