Constructive partner
The headline of last week's story reporting on responses to the Professional Teaching Standards consultation by the Higher Education Academy, incorrectly suggests that the Heads of Educational...
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Question of credibility
If a post-92 university chose to pay lip service to widening participation or decided not to participate in the National Student Survey, I'm sure that the tone of your articles "Hefce's grant plan '...
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Purls before time 1
I know of a physicist who would have disagreed with Bobby Henderson ("Have you been touched by the Monster's noodly appendage yet?", September 2). This scientist said he had "a humble admiration of...
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Purls before time 2
Flying Spaghetti Monsterism is no more plausible than six-day creationism. As I explain to those who come to my doorstep with the latter theory, the universe was knitted by my grandmother in...
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Tie up your trouser legs, it's an American cockroach
Is your job making you sick? Olga Wojtas meets the academics for whom nausea, fear and puffy eyes are all in a day's work Plenty of people would say that their job makes them ill, but in Ioana Oltean...
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From David Lodge to David Brent?
Elaine Showalter, a proud member of the Sabbatical Generation, casts a nostalgic eye over the faculty novel and asks if it is time to bring this classic genre into the noughties On the eve of my...
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Radical pants and the pursuit of happiness
Jeremy Bentham's legacy included 200 boxes of papers, knitted smalls and himself. Negley Harte welcomes the return of the father of utilitarianism to UCL There was no fanfare to mark Jeremy Bentham's...
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How to give a dead man a makeover: first freeze-dry the carpet beetles in his hair...
It was the insects found roaming in Jeremy Bentham's underpants that did it. Almost 200 years after University College London's "auto-icon" was created from the philosopher's body, the appearance of...
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The 'uneventful life' that embraced philosophy and science as well as penal reform and fridges
Jeremy Bentham would readily have admitted to being a man of words rather than action. John Stuart Mill described him as "secluded in a peculiar degree, by circumstance and character, from the...
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Bones get broken in a clash of cultures
Fear of a corrupting campus culture can lead some Asian parents to be overprotective. Matt Baker reports Lecturer Usha Sood shudders when she recalls the worst example of a clash of cultures on her...
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The GALILEO family is further expanding: EU and India seal their agreement
Brussels, 7 September 2005 After intensive exchanges held since January 2004, negotiations on India’s participation in Europe's satellite radio navigation programme finally reached approval...
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Amendments for the report on the proposed regulation on the implementation of the deployment and commercial operating phases of the European programme of satellite radionavigation (link)
Brussels, 07 Sep 2005 Amendments 001-028 Link to the Report European Parliament Previous Item Back to Titles Print Item
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Commissioner Viviane Reding: Software and services: powering the European digital economy - Official launch of the Technology Platform NESSI (Networked European Software and Services Initiative)
Brussels, 7 September 2005 Ladies and gentlemen, I am very pleased to join you for the launch of the NESSI Technology Platform. This is a fascinating area of industrial opportunity, in which Europe...
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Slovenia calls for clarification of relationship between FP7 and Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP)
Brussels, 07 Sep 2005 The Slovenian government has published its position on the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) proposals, and has asked for clarification of the relationship between the new...
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Draft Opinion on the proposed decision establishing a Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (2007-2013) (link)
Brussels, 07 Sep 2005 DRAFT OPINION of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs for the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy on the proposal for a European Parliament and Council decision...