Germany sows its R&D seedcorn in foreign fields
German industry is turning its back on its own country and investing in research and development abroad, according to a federal government report on the state of German science. The report says...
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Gender on the urban agenda
Gender issues have been ignored by teachers of urban planning, according to coordinators of a conference in Istanbul. Turkey's first international symposium on gender dealt with the question of...
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Locking horns with welfare foe
It has been a difficult two weeks for Brunel University. Not only has The THES given David Marsland more free publicity for his latest book on the faults of the welfare system (THES, May 17), but a...
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Locking horns with welfare foe
David Marsland's continuing attempt to portray the welfare state as an unmitigated disaster is, as usual, wide of the mark. Although it has a number of shortcomings, the post-1945 welfare state has...
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Locking horns with welfare foe
David Marsland's article on the British welfare state deserves to be widely read. It is one of the most vivid caricatures of the bankrupt (and tired) conservative thinking that I have encountered in...
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Victims of a bureaucracy bash
Richard Davies says much that is true in his swingeing critique of Italian universities (THES, April 26). Indeed, they are badly in need of reform. But he omits to say much else that is also true,...
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Knowledge goes out to market
Developments in information and communications technology mean that knowledge has become divorced from organisations and places. In future, people will use knowledge where it is, not where it can be...
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Vulnerable but certainly not alone
I do not recognise myself or my writing in the comments (THES ,May 17) that Sarah Coakley's critics have been "vociferous"; that "post-Christian feminists such as Daphne Hampson I vehemently reject...
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Heriot-Watt and Aston graduates set for job success
Finalists from Heriot-Watt and Aston universities think they are the most employable in the country, according to a survey by careers specialists High Fliers Research. Two-thirds of students from...
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Libraries' expansion shelved
Thirty-four university library improvement schemes estimated to cost Pounds 22.5 million have been scrapped because of the Government's capital funding cuts. The list of abandoned projects was the...
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Row over Rennie 'indigestible' texts
An exhibition on the artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh was nearly abandoned after a row between academics in Glasgow and an art journalist. The threat was only lifted following assurances that the...
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Privates on parade
Private institutions believe they can help Sir Ron Dearing recommend a policy which is cost-effective and widens access, Kate Worsley reports. Private higher education has much to contribute to the...
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V-cs oppose quality report
The road to a single quality agency is getting rockier, writes Tony Tysome. Just when vice chancellors and principals thought it was safe to become bored with the politics of quality assurance, the...
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Four win stake in Canada EU link
British universities have won places in four of the first six projects in a pioneering cooperation programme between the European Union and Canada. Aberdeen, Luton, Sheffield and the Robert Gordon...
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New RCA rector seeks lucrative commissions
The new rector of the Royal College of Art is aiming to raise the international profile of the college to make it the international research institute for art and design. He also intends to fight for...