Brussels, 02 Jun 2005 After five years of work, an international consortium of scientists, drawn largely from Europe and led by the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, has developed the largest...
Brussels, 02 Jun 2005 A 'fundamental overhaul is in order of the entire procedural financial and administrative implementation system of the Framework Programme,' according to Philips, the...
Brussels, 02 Jun 2005 The European Association of Managers and Research Administrators (EARMA) will hold its annual conference in Genoa, Italy, from 16 to 18 June. The title of the event will be '...
Students' watchdog upholds complaint against Oxford Brookes A complaint made by a group of osteopathy undergraduates against Oxford Brookes University has been upheld by the watchdog for students. In...
From: The Departmental Secretary (Maureen) To: Full-time, part-time, casual and downright marginal staff The following points apply to this year's finals marking: 1. Following a dispute over the...
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith does exactly what it says on the tin. It’s a 206-minute special-effects, eye-candy romp with wonderful but readily predictable crowd-pleasing plot...
A new voice can be added to the chorus of academics concerned about dumbing down and the decline of undergraduate standards: that of the students themselves. One of the most startling findings of the...
The allocations of the next three years of UK science spending give research a major cash increase in real terms. This is part of a ten-year programme that should put billions of extra pounds into...
The need to replace staff who retire ("Job boom looms as older staff bow out", May ) may create increased opportunities for younger academics. But why this age discrimination? The National Audit...
The spate of letters whingeing about courses for new lecturers reminds me of students who, when they bother to show up at all, sit sullenly at the back of the lecture hall, fall asleep halfway...
Richard Austen-Baker (Letters, May ) suggests that the value of training higher education teachers to teach can be evaluated if we get "proper scientific evidence as to whether students actually do...
Ann Rossiter, acting director of the Social Market Foundation, urges state schools and colleges to follow higher education into the market (Opinion, May ). This is the intention of the "basically...
Kristin Clemet's eloquent plea for 2020 vision on the Bologna Process sat significantly alongside your editorial on boosting lifelong learning (Opinion, May 20). The Bergen meeting of European...
Endorsing the value of information that is at best four years and at worst ten years out of date by using teaching quality assessment scores to contribute to your published league table (May ) calls...
I am writing to protest against the deportation of my friend and co-author, Kenneth Good, from Botswana on May 31. Ken's appeal to the High Court was turned down this morning. Ken, a resident of...