Passing on the entomology bug
Name: Peter Smithers Age: 57 Job: Terrestrial ecology technician and entomologist at the School of Biological Sciences, Plymouth University. I support academic teaching and research in the field of...
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I have a question about my conditions of employment as a postdoc on a Natural Environment Research Council project. Is it usual practice to issue contracts on a yearly basis for projects funded for...
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Who got that cash?
Astronomers at Kent and Hertfordshire universities are over the moon at winning a grant that will allow them to map large regions of the sky up to a thousand times faster than current technology...
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White staff are more likely to scoop PRP
White academics are up to eight times more likely than their non-white colleagues to receive discretionary performance-related pay rises, according to research. An Association of University Teachers...
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Discretionary pay discrepancy: racism or a reluctance to apply?
The fact that ethnic minority staff are eight times less likely to receive discretionary pay compared with their white colleagues at Newcastle University is not necessarily a sign of racial...
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Medics oppose research plan
Top medical academics are privately battling to dismantle a government strategy for health research, which they fear will pit universities against each other and drive some medical schools out of the...
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OECD Announces Workshop to Address Policy Challenges from the Use of Pharmacogenomics (links)
Paris, 13 Oct 2005 The OECD Working Party on Biotechnology announced it will review what could best be done to advance the efficiency, utility and use of genomic knowledge for the delivery of safer...
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MEPs Approve Report on the Quality of Higher Education and Encouraging Mutual Recognition of National Evaluation Systems
Brussels, 13 Oct 2005 MEPs approved a legislative report aiming to guarantee the quality of higher education in the EU and encouraging the mutual recognition of national evaluation systems. The issue...
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Social significance of informal work in Europe, Brussels
Brussels, 13 Oct 2005 The final conference of the research project 'Formal and informal work in Europe: A comparative analysis of their changing relationship and their impact on social integration' (...
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Workshop on micro and nano engineering: technology and applications, Bulgaria
Brussels, 13 Oct 2005 A workshop on micro and nano engineering: technology and applications will take place in Sofia, Bulgaria, from 25 to 26 November. Organised by the EU funded FP6 4M Network of...
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Workshop: Virtual reality and virtual environments, France
Brussels, 13 Oct 2005 The second international workshop on virtual reality and virtual environments organised by the INTUITION consortium, 'INTUITION 2005', will take place in Paris, France, from 24...
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Agenda of the 304th Meeting of the Scientific and Technical Research Committee (CREST), 19 October 2005
Brussels, 13 Oct 2005 Full text of Document 3575/05 1. Adoption of the Draft Agenda 2. Approval of the Draft Summary Conclusions of the 303rd meeting of 29 September 2005 - Doc. 1206/05 CREST 3....
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Holy Metal Detectors, Batman! What It's Like to be a Bat... in an Airport
Paris, 13 Oct 2005 Bat inspires space tech for airport security Metal detectors currently used for screening aircraft passengers could soon be supplanted by novel millimetre-wave cameras, able to...
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Today's news
Cambridge faces the end of one-to-one tutorials Cambridge may be forced to abandon its tradition of one-to-one tuition unless it can raise sufficient additional endowment funds to meet the cost,...
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Laurie Taylor Column
From: Mavis Willingborough. Deputy Head of Corporate Logistics (Timetabling Division), University of Poppleton To: All Academic Staff Following extensive consultations, it has been agreed that the...