Brussels, 06 Oct 2005 A conference on the present situation and forecasts for nanotechnology in materials, health and medical systems, and energy, will take place in Rome, Italy, from 4 to 5 November...
Brussels, 06 Oct 2005 An industry-focused nanotechnology conference and exhibition, NanoSolutions 2005, will take place in Cologne. Germany, from 8 to 10 November. The event will showcase new and...
Brussels, 06 Oct 2005 The European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) has published a call for tenders for research and experimental services in the field of 'in vitro' blood-brain barrier...
Geneva, 06 Oct 2005 The Assemblies of the member states of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) concluded on Wednesday, October 5, 2005, following a review of activities over the past...
Paris, 06 Oct 2005 Photos An ambitious initiative to utilise ESA satellite data to improve availability and management of African water resources took a further step forward on a hill slope...
Clinical academics get £100m booster The Government is putting up £100 million in funding to lure doctors into academia. Universities have been warning that they cannot compete with...
Universities are becoming PhD factories and "many students do not get the full 'PhD experience'" - Jim Ewing, general secretary of the National Postgraduate Committee, The Times Higher , September 30...
'What might we sensibly do about reforming degree classification? What we could usefully do, as usual, is steal the Americans' clothing' Our 'ancient' degree system is no such thing, and tripartite...
The simultaneous publication of the Higher Education Policy Institute's report on academic mobility and the beginning of our second round of world rankings suggests that UK universities are...
It is a rather strange state of affairs when a trade union firmly rooted to the principle of national pay bargaining publicly celebrates the arrival of local pay deals and the opening-up of a clear...
Does anyone claim that if I am joint owner of a house, I can sell it without the knowledge or permission of the other owners and pocket the money? That appears to be the concept of joint ownership...
Regardless of the rights and wrongs of the Blumsohn case, Sheffield University's interpretation of intellectual property rights is very worrying. The university appears to believe that any author or...
A number of methodological issues are cause for concern in the national student satisfaction survey ("Student poll puts staff under pressure", September 23). First, the subject categories bear little...
Could Peter Williams (Quality Assurance Agency chief executive) please tell us what the correlation is between the outcome of institutional audits and the national student survey? If the correlation...
It is a shame that The Times Higher's "most accurate overall measure" of the feedback provided by students excluded a number of small and specialist institutions ("Redbricks get thumbs down",...