Broken pledge betrays post-92s, Driscoll says
Downing Street and senior ministers have "reneged" on a promise to give post-92 universities the lion's share of funding for applied research and knowledge-transfer work, it was claimed this week....
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Forgotten lives, vicious streets
Fractured Cities
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ESA joins UN climate talks in Kenya
Paris, 6 November 2006 The United Nations annual summit on climate change this week in Nairobi, Kenya, seeks to negotiate a successor to the Kyoto Protocol strategy, which becomes obsolete in 2012,...
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'Trust the Young': ERC Heads look to the future
Brussels, 17 Jul 2006 In October 2002, a conference in Copenhagen posed the question, 'Do we need a European Research Council?' The answer from researchers across the EU was a resounding YES, and now...
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Under that 3ft pile of quano...
Universities' property portfolios boast a range of often-forgotten treasures that are being renovated with spectacular results. Michael North reports. Mabel Wilson was bewildered by the...
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Computer-generated with soul left intact
CRAZY: The UK number one single by Gnarls Barkley The conventional wisdom is that if the pop charts ever mattered, they don't anymore. They no longer serve as a barometer of the taste and cultural...
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Parliamentary reports on People Programme and Capacities Programme implementing FP7 goals for research (link)
Brussels, 2 November 2006 FINAL A6-0360/2006 16.10.2006 Type of Procedure: Consultation procedure REPORT on the proposal for a Council decision on the specific programme 'People' implementing the 7th...
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Potocnik proposes 'evolution, not revolution' for European research
Brussels, 04 Oct 2004 In what proved to be a well received hearing for the Commissioner-designate for Science and Research on 1 October, Janez Potocnik pointed to the 'rich heritage' left by his...
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Europe moves closer to European Space Policy lift-off
Brussels, 09 Jun 2005 Ministers from the countries affiliated to the EU and/or the European Space Agency met on 7 June to take stock of progress towards the implementation of a European Space Policy...
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Lucrative fields pull in experts
The lure of consultancy could influence specialism, reports Jessica Shepherd Consultancy work is becoming so commonplace in academic life that it could be influencing subject specialisms adopted by...
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Today's news
Oxford silences animal activists Oxford University served an unprecedentedly strict injunction yesterday to protect students and staff by banning animal rights activists from screaming through...
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Who will iron the papers?
The Servant Problem
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Reunited: vacation vocation
Tourism chief executive Richard Dickinson visits Bournemouth University where he studied as a mature student in the 1980s There are buildings everywhere. Returning, it is hard to get a handle on the...
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Exploiting whole grain to improve health
Brussels, 29 Sep 2005 The EU-funded research project HEALTHGRAIN is to identify new sources of nutritionally enhanced grain, as well as to develop methods for producing new, competitive, grain foods...
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Today's news
University pay row threatens fee policy Universities are facing a year of pay strikes that could plunge the Government's flagship top-up fees policy into chaos. Academics are demanding at least one...