Importance of being managed
The research industry must look after its people and find financial backing by training researchers in management, says John Goddard Throughout the university system, final tweaks are being made to...
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Technical hitch for link-up
I read with interest your report (É«ºÐÖ±²¥S, March 8) that a new joint committee linking the National Council for Vocational Qualifications with the School Curriculum Authority has been set up. In...
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Psyched out
If some scientists fear the "sinister" power of social science (É«ºÐÖ±²¥S, March 1) it is surprising that they have entrusted the task of telling the public about scientific psychology matters to STEM (...
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Opus Dei sticks to the spirit
Paul Bompard's article from Italy ("Rectors accused of freemason link", É«ºÐÖ±²¥S, February 23) alleges that many rectors are freemasons and that, for some top jobs, masonic approval is needed "especially...
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Ironing Chile's wrinkles
I would like to add some information to your article "Chile Irons Out Market Wrinkles" (É«ºÐÖ±²¥S, December 8). The Chilean higher education system underwent great changes between 1981 and 1990. Some of...
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Chocolate box fantasy
If I were part of the ethnic minority population living in the Birmingham area, I would say that the quality of the maps at Cadbury World (pace Catherine Hall, É«ºÐÖ±²¥S March 8) was positively the least...
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Fair panels?
The Research Assessment Exercise will affect the distribution of considerable sums of public money, and involve issues of fairness to institutions and ultimately to individuals. Last time the...
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Plea for a sight and sound archive
Sir Anthony Kenny's article recommending the extension of legal deposit to the British Library to include non-print materials (É«ºÐÖ±²¥S, Multimedia Supplement, March 8) prompts a further suggestion. If...
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Pigs might fly all way home
Man with pig kidney is a 'long way' off" (É«ºÐÖ±²¥S, March 8). I suppose that's because he is going "wee wee wee" all the way home? ELIZABETH M. BATEY Whitegate, Northwich, Cheshire
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Critics convey confusing criticisms
Gordon Johnson's personal statement (É«ºÐÖ±²¥S, March 1) presents Cambridge University Press as holding off forces of "intimidation" that threaten from the outside. My recall is that it is the press's...
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Teams track school violence
A flare-up of violence in and around French schools has put the spotlight on a French research programme commissioned a year ago by the ministries of education and of the interior, writes Stella...
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German idea to charge quality fee
German students would have to pay a DM2,000 a year (Pounds 885) "quality tax" under the latest financial proposal for solving the country's higher education funding deficit. The policy body's Centre...
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Waiting for Dearing will take too long
In her otherwise excellent article on the task facing Sir Ron Dearing (É«ºÐÖ±²¥S, March 8), Lucy Hodges misses an important distinction. While it may be true that the review has bought time for the...
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Do the genes have it?
It is easier to destroy trust than it is to build it up - a principle coined by the social scientists as the "asymmetry of trust" some time ago. Someone ought to coin a similar phrase about the...
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Mind the plumage
It was said of Edmund Burke, the 18th- century political thinker, that he pitied the plumage while forgetting the dying bird. A thinking Conservative, he would have appreciated the Labour party's...