Brussels, 28 Jul 2005 In the early 1990s, some years before the widespread proliferation of the Internet, Mark Weiser, chief scientist for Xerox Palo Alto Research, mapped out the transition from the...
Brussels, 28 Jul 2005 The US, Australia and several Asian countries have surprised European governments by announcing a pact to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The agreement is non-binding, and will...
Brussels, 28 Jul 2005 A conference on 'renewable energies for Europe' will take place in Brussels, Belgium, on 21 and 22 November. The event, organised by the European Commission, aims to present the...
Brussels, 28 Jul 2005 The European Institute for advanced studies in management is organising the first workshop on visualising, measuring and managing intangibles and intellectual capital. It will...
Brussels, 28 Jul 2005 The European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) has published a call for tenders addressing the next step in developing information society services in the new EU Member...
Scholars hit back at 'evil' bombers Qur'anic scholars started a tour of Muslim communities in Britain yesterday to underline their unequivocal horror at suicide bombings and terror attacks. Using...
"The next research assessment exercise is not 'all about publishing in high-impact journals. It is about ensuring that... research is disseminated by whatever means'" - Rama Thirunamachandran, the...
There is nothing wrong with recruiting academics overseas - on the contrary, UK universities' success in this regard shows that they are seen as internationally competitive and ambitious. But the...
Successive governments, to a more or less vocal extent, have championed school-based teacher training as a better alternative to the traditional system. Universities and colleges have been convenient...
The proposed concession by some research assessment exercise panels of allowing so-called super-books to count as two items highlights the anomaly of books in general in the RAE ("RAE countdown 2008...
I am outraged by the efforts of Royal Academy engineers to import what can only be regarded as institutionalised age discrimination into the RAE process. Their (reportedly) successful efforts to...
The main argument against the RAE's shift of focus from prestige journals appears to be organisational and administrative - concerning the practicality of "ensuring that high-quality research is...
The headline "Science blase on terror" and the first line "Scientists in the UK are failing to consider potential terror threats resulting from their work and dismissing warnings about bio-weapons" (...
I sympathise with Lee Harvey's belief that first-years should not be taught by graduate students (Letters, July 15), especially when it comes to marking and feedback. But I suspect that any graduate...
The letter from Alfred Morris ("Not so clear view", July 15) contains an obvious non sequitur. In order for the vice-chancellor to replicate the position of the University of the West of England in...