Czechs hunt Briton in cash probe
Interpol is helping Czech police and university authorities find a British administrator who disappeared after the discovery of financial irregularities in a European Union-funded programme at...
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Flex competitive muscle and watch equity thrive
Higher education has much to teach schools about the benefits of choice, says Ann Rossiter. Making choice in education real is one of the Prime Minister's "legacy" projects for his third term. For...
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Nancy Rothwell
Our top scientific body is striving to end whispers of blackballing and bias while continuing to admit only the best scientists. Attaining membership of the most exclusive clubs is often a curious...
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So who's an ancient relic now?
Having stepped out from the shadows of Downing Street, Lord Adonis, the new Education Minister, was due to make his parliamentary debut as The Times Higher went to press. As one might expect, the...
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The fear of the frontbencher
Talking of politicians... with the benefit of an Eton education and having taken a first at Oxford University, one might assume that David Cameron, the new Conservative Shadow Education spokesman,...
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A long-indulged silly streak
But from naked ambition to plain nudity. Comedian Arthur Smith returned to his alma mater, the University of East Anglia, at the end of last week to give a speech at the university court - the annual...
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Too clever for their own good
Arthur Smith's recollections were followed by a rather more pungent dish at the UEA: a lecture on the education of teenagers by Sir Mike Tomlinson. Sir Mike's refrain this week was that one side-...
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Tristram Hunt returns to whitehall for a new BBC sitcom
'Comparing this with the hideously worthy West Wing is to breathe in the fresh air of British democracy' The thick of it. BBC 4, Thursdays, 10.30pm-11pm (until June 2) The BBC's new political satire...
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Why I... believe science fiction helps our understanding of science fact
"Do you relish science-fiction films but do not have quite the same feeling about science?" Physicist Leroy Dubeck asked this question in 1993 and then, in his book Fantastic Voyages: Learning...
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Show us the money
Universities and funders need to do some radical thinking to boost pay, argues Paul Mackney. For many years, there was a view that academic staff would put up with relatively low pay in return for...
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Practice makes perfect sense
The 2008 RAE should recognise more applied research, but Phil Ternouth remains sceptical. When the members of the review panels for the 2008 research assessment exercise were announced earlier this...
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Next week
BIG QUESTIONS IN HISTORY To launch the book of our series, Benjamin Barber asks why it is that so many of his fellow professionals have heralded the end of history
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Exception from food labelling requirements that is allowed where presence of genetically modified organisms is adventitious and less than 1 percent extends to food for infants or others with special n
Luxembourg, 26 May 2005 C-132/03, Ministero della Salute v Coordinamento delle associazioni per la difesa dell'ambiente e dei diritti degli utenti e dei consumatori (Codacons), Federconsumatori...
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Genetically Modified Organisms: Authorisation Procedures for New GMOS (link)
Brussels, 26 May 2005 Full text of Document 9253/05 Suite of documents 9253/05 Under the procedures established pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003 for assessing the health and environmental...
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Commissioner Janez POTOCNIK: Working together for the Europe of knowledge, EUREKA Inter-Parliamentary Conference
Den Haag, 26 and May, 2005 Honourable Ministers, Members of Parliament, Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to thank the Dutch Parliament and the EUREKA Chairmanship for inviting me to speak at this...