'Our support has a price'
Next week the Teaching and Higher Education Bill begins its committee stage in the House of Lords. Here the elected leader of the British universities, Martin Harris, sets out the universities' terms...
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Research as the key to prosperity
Academics are meant to spend their time doing two things: uncovering new knowledge and transmitting existing wisdom to others - in other words, research and teaching. Despite the danger that...
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The marriage of teaching and research
RAEs overlook higher education research and it is time for change, says Mantz Yorke The funding councils recently launched their consultation over the future of the research assessment exercise. The...
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Why lifelong learning is not a policy
While welcoming the aims of the government's lifelong learning initiative, Peter Jarvis, Colin Griffin, John Holford, Linda Merricks and Paul Tosey argue that learning has to be distinguished from...
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Peer review: where to now?
The drawbacks of a peer-review system (THES, Leader, January 9) whereby one's rivals can pass judgement on the fate of one's work are obvious. Similarly, few would be surprised at the tendency of...
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Peer review: where to now?
The main concern of the National Postgraduate Committee is that postgraduates should study in a high-quality research environment with other active researchers. Obviously, a well-managed peer-review...
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Peer review: where to now?
Richard Brook's discussion of the peer-review system (THES, Opinion, January 9) leaves out one essential element: the altruistic attitude required to fund something really new and outside the...
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Peer review: where to now?
The peer-review system does seem to be an old-boys' club, predominantly managed by old professors from old universities, giving money predominantly to old universities. The same people sit on...
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Peer review: where to now?
You launch your debate on peer review with the award of research grants. But the "fixers" are also at work at the heart of the increasingly bitter Cambridge promotions crisis. We have partly reformed...
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So where's the science?
I was relieved to encounter halfway through Tim Cornwell's article on Steven Pinker's new book, How the Mind Works, some trenchant criticism from Stephen J. Gould (THES, January 9). But apart from...
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All's Wells that ends well
Jennifer Wallace's approving profile of Peter Holland, the new director of the Shakespeare Institute of the University of Birmingham, (THES, "The luvvie director", December 26 1997) unfairly...
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Disaster area
(Photograph) - Disaster area: architecture students from Liverpool John Moores University spent a cold winter's night in the temporary structures that they had designed for use in natural disasters.
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Library update
The University of Liverpool's Pounds 2.5 million refurbishment of the Harold Cohen Library has created a learning resources area equipped with 280 networked computers. The building, opened in 1938,...
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Moving pictures
The University of Lincolnshire and Humberside has ordered Sony DVCAM format camcorders and VTRs from Newland Electronics for its School of Media and Communications, which is upgrading to digital...
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Henry the screen engine
Quantel has given Bournemouth University a Henry visual effects editor, worth Pounds 500,000. Skilled Henry operators can command high salaries in the film and television industries.