The right chemistry for the marketplace
How unfortunate that the headline and opening paragraph of your article on The Royal Society of Chemistry's report, The Chemistry PhD: the enhancement of its quality, (THES, April 7) chose to be...
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Pay scale mix-up righted
Computer operators' pay scales start at Pounds 6,850 per year not Pounds 6.85 per hour as printed in error in last week's THES. Elaine Harrison Head of higher education, Unison
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Researchers who teach for free
Those justifiably outraged by the thought of graduate students in Australia being forced to teach without pay might spare a thought for the growing trend in the United Kingdom for this kind of...
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Trash artists connect to `Othernet'
Collaboration between academics and an artist has given rise to a new concept of art as communication. The project is an inter-disciplinary, artistic interaction, crossing the frontiers of sociology...
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Oxbridge's law of averages
Gerard McCrum (THES, March 31) has correctly noted that women at Oxford and Cambridge are less academically formidable than they were 25 years ago. A principal reason for this is that far fewer women...
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Postgraduate path is way ahead
Christopher Ball writes an open letter to the vice chancellor of Oxford University calling for a focus on research. Dear vice chancellor,It is now a month since the final date for comments on the 45...
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Czech Republic in need of a strategy
While I sympathise with many of Josef Jarab's comments on higher education in the Czech Republic (World View, THES, February 10) I find his evasion of any serious discussion about the role of higher...
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Crying out for Sir Ron
The vital words have been uttered: send for Sir Ron. At long last the Government has noticed, what people all around have been saying for years, that there is a consensus that "the qualifications...
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Medical barons on exam fixing charges
Eleven professors at Rome's Sapienza University medical school are officially under investigation for allegedly "fixing" competitive exams for medical chairs. According to the Rome judge who is...
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Telescope is focus of row
The projected site of the world's largest optical telescope has become the focus of an international dispute about diplomatic immunity. Ricardo Giacconi, director of the European Southern Observatory...
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Questions for quality
At the eleventh hour the universities have taken a stand. And they have taken it, as they should, on the grounds of quality control and autonomy. It has taken a long time. Views expressed with too...
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Rouen locks out students as protest
As France's presidential election draws near, the biggest public research institution, the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique has won the promise of an 11th-hour hand-out, while, for the...
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Technikons take lion's share of funding
South African technikons emerged the biggest winners in education in this year's budget, which increased the total education allocation by just over 10 per cent to R32.2 million (Pounds 5.65million...
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Demotion of Jeffries is lawful
The controversial black academic, Leonard Jeffries, lost his first court case last week when a panel of appeals judges ruled that he was lawfully demoted by City College of New York for making...
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Australian men `failing to defend gender order'
Australian women are making spectacular advances in higher education and should no longer be considered disadvantaged, according to researchers at Monash University. In fact, they say, it is...