Call for tenders: broadband coverage in Europe
Brussels, 15 Sep 2005 The Commission's Information Society DG has published a call for tenders for a study on broadband Internet coverage in Europe. The study will support the i2010 initiative and...
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New industry bio-economy web portal launched (link)
Brussels, 15 Sep 2005 As a major EU Commission conference on the bioeconomy (1) opens today in Brussels, a brand new biobased economy portal is launched (www.bio-economy.net). The portal is full of...
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ESA's new deep space antenna in Cebreros becomes a reality
Paris, 15 Sep 2005 ESA's new deep space radio antenna in Cebreros (Ávila, Spain) will be officially inaugurated on 28 September. The new 35-metre antenna is ESA's second facility devoted...
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Black Hole Without a Home
Paris, 15 Sep 2005 Two Hubble images from a sample of 20 nearby quasars The detection of a super-massive black hole without a massive 'host' galaxy is the surprising result from a large Hubble and...
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Today's news
University establishes an English outpost in China Rising from what was once a paddy field is a little piece of England. One year after breaking ground, Nottingham University will open the...
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Laurie Taylor column
" The University of East London... tops a new league table of teaching quality, compiled by UEL itself " - Times Higher, September 9 From : the Vice-Chancellor Subject : League Tables As you will...
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Leader: Victims of our own success
British universities are recruiting more students at home and abroad, and producing highly employable graduates. Their problem, according to this week's international comparisons by the OECD, is that...
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Leader: The centre will hold
Every time Universities UK holds its annual meeting, there is speculation about its possible disintegration. The organisation's critics (who seldom attend to voice their concerns) have long doubted...
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Allow beautiful minds to thrive 1
The British Association for the Advancement of Science warns that the research assessment exercise does not recognise the importance of the public communication of science ("Scientists want time to...
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Allow beautiful minds to thrive 2
Your article about the research assessment exercise and new academics is timely ("Young scholars lose out in RAE", September 9). It is essential that the RAE take account of the pressures facing new...
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Allow beautiful minds to thrive 3
As a former PhD researcher, I welcome the European charter and code described in Lord Sainsbury's article ("Be a good neighbour and share your bright ideas", September 9). The aims are admirable and...
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Ignatieff row 1
So, Michael Ignatieff is to join the ranks of those on the Left excommunicated for the twin crimes of supporting the 2003 Iraq War for humanitarian reasons and for attempting to initiate a discussion...
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Ignatieff row 2
Michael Ignatieff was once a socialist historian and an editor of History Workshop Journal . Later, he appeared as a liberal academic with views on morality in what was then the broadsheet press. Now...
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Justifying the means
The student satisfaction survey mean of 3.7/5 does not translate into a mean of 74 per cent, because the lowest mark was not 0, but 1 ("'Sexy' courses trail traditional in student poll", September 9...
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Conservation piece
The excellent feature on the conservation of Jeremy Bentham's auto-icon ("Radical pants and the pursuit of happiness", September 9) related the history of how Bentham's skeleton and clothes were...