Led by the nose into clone cuckoo land
The practical impact of the cloning of Dolly the sheep on the commercial cloning and genetic engineering of farm animals has barely been mentioned in the flood of words unleashed by the possibility...
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In not such good company
WHATEVER the outcome of the election, the smart money is on an outbreak of new universities in the next few years. Some will come from the ranks of today's colleges of education, including deserving...
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Dearing must not be a smokescreen
Less than a week after the May Day general election was announced, the first instances are already being reported of politicians citing the Dearing inquiry as the reason why it is terribly difficult...
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Publish and be praised
Universities should be more open and accountable, say researchers on two separate projects It is virtually impossible to glean even the faintest understanding of British universities' contributions...
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Accountancy called to book in quest for value
The traditional academic values of British universities are widely seen to be under threat from commercialism and misplaced business management methods. At least, this is what is often claimed. Yet a...
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Learn from us now
We were delighted to see that Gareth Williams and colleagues at the Institute of Education have endorsed a national accreditation scheme for higher education teachers (THES, February 28). The Staff...
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Specialist treatment
Regarding the total quality assessment report on politics and international relations at the University of St Andrews (THES, March 7), there are plenty of other IR specialists in Scotland; in our TQA...
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Death before expense
Lucy Neville-Rolfe, director of the cabinet office deregulation unit, cautions against "expensive" over-regulation in response to crises or disasters (THES, March 14). Yet again a convenient...
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Death before expense
Your article on the Royal Society's risk meeting (THES, March 14) quoted Ragnar Lofstedt as saying that communication between social scientists and engineers or natural scientists is effectively...
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Daft draft notions
The report (THES, February 21) on the misleading and erroneous views attributed to Jacqueline McGlade and her colleagues on the draft European Union directive on the legal protection of...
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Reduced to one or two
Reading your editorial opinions is always a joy but it is not often that I do so wreathed in smiles. "Pay system should build on UCEA" (THES, March 14) was one of those times. You must share my...
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Officialese decoded
The chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England describes the present practice of "the calculation of the amount of research money for each subject" as based on "historical...
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Death and the debate
I read with interest the hard-hitting reply from Barry Hyman (THES, March 7) to Geoffrey Alderman's commentary on the disputes surrounding the death of Rabbi Hugo Gryn. Mr Hyman's remark that...
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Death and the debate
In my article on the repercussions within Anglo-Jewry of the death of Rabbi Hugo Gryn, requested by The THES, I sought to explain to a largely non-Jewish audience a complex and confusing dynamic. As...
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Electro wizards switch on to West
Scientists from St Petersburg's Electrotechnical University (LETI), once a centre for secret Soviet military-industrial research, are turning to the west to capitalise on technical advances developed...