Brussels, 29 Oct 2002 Reports on the EU candidate countries' progress on the road to accession show that they are ready to participate in the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) on an equal footing with...
The Committee of Scottish Higher Education Principals has challenged the Scottish Parliament to adopt its radical six-point strategy to promote high-tech innovation. John Archer, principal of Heriot-...
Bruxelles, le 19 avril 2002 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS What is the EDCTP? EDCTP is a new programme to facilitate and accelerate clinical trials for drugs and vaccines against the 3 poverty- related...
British business needs leaders not managers, says Ashridge guru Philip Sadler in his latest work. How to Get Seriously Rich while Failing in Business will be the first venture into satire of Ashridge...
The government's rhetoric on widening participation has not been matched by appropriate action, higher education leaders warned this week. A Universities UK conference on widening participation heard...
Taken on the evidence of one surprising week, the Brave New World of higher education is like a London bus. You wait for ages for one big initiative to appear and then two come along at once....
British Stars and Stardom - The British Cinema Book
Katrina Honeyman reveals how one man managed to lure male shoppers out of the closet and take the embarrassment out of a feminine pursuit - thus setting the stage to make the buying of clothes...
The Age of Consent
Brussels, 4 April 2003 A roundtable meeting to examine the latest research results on the co-existence of GM and non-GM crops will be hosted by the European Commission on Thursday 24 April. A wide...
Brussels, 30 January 2003 The European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) has launched an innovative joint pilot study together with regional Italian environmental protection agency Agenzia...
APPOINTMENTS The British Library Philip Davies , professor of American studies at De Montfort University and chair of the British Association for American Studies, has been appointed director of the...
Three universities have joined together to set up the Scottish Centre for Research into On-Line Learning (Scrolla), whose aims include strengthening links between online teaching researchers and the...
A Great Civil War
Initiatives to give students a career boost may be failing those most in need, argues John Brennan If you were born on the wrong side of the tracks and you haven't become a professional footballer or...