Making the grade
The implementation of the national framework agreement should deliver equal pay for work of equal value. Equal pay reviews are required and I suggest that reporting now focuses on examining if women...
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Putting theory into practice
At 21, Hannah Hedges, will be the youngest candidate in the election The good thing about being an undergraduate and standing in the general election is that there is no set pattern to my day. I can...
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What sparks intellectual movements?
In the 17th century, everything people held true was swept away. Having the rug pulled from under you is a catalyst for shifts in culture, says Anthony Pagden The American philosopher Richard Rorty...
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Uncle Sam may be self-absorbed but Mr Blair is still his someone special
Is the US interested in the result of the UK general election? More than one might think, Huw Richards finds America is self-absorbed. Don't take the word of a British journalist for it. The phrase...
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He's had 68,889 namechecks...
... but most people wouldn't know who he is. Anna Fazackerley meets Salvador Moncada, a living legend among scientists I am just working away in a little corner. I'm not interested in the limelight...
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Politics is just a bit on the side
Good gimmickry engages viewers in the run-up to an election, but it can go too far, says Philip Cowley Ronald Reagan once said that the most frightening words in the English language are: "I'm from...
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Campus curiosities 02 the royal society's dark past, london
Hidden under the carpets in the Royal Society's prestigious London headquarters lurks an unpleasant secret. The inlaid wooden floor in one of the public rooms close to the Wellcome Trust lecture hall...
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Ever felt like a maiden aunt to a brash US youngster?
Brits used to think of the US as a virgin land filled with opportunity, but that's all changed, Harriet Swain finds While British views of America have become particularly loaded in the past few...
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Instant expert
Conference: Taking Stock - The Co-operative Movement in British History. People's History Museum, Manchester. May 13-14. Fee £30 (£15 students and unwaged) What's it about? Sponsored by the Economic...
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Conference watch
The genetic battle of the sexes and its impact on the evolution of mating systems, sex ratios and sex itself will be probed in Sexual Conflict: A new Paradigm? a Royal Society discussion meeting. May...
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Favourable Commission opinion on plan for disposal of radioactive waste arising from decommissioning of UK's Dungeness A nuclear power station (OJ link)
Brussels, April 2005 Commission opinion of 25 April 2004 concerning the plan for the disposal of radioactive waste arising from the decommissioning of the Dungeness A Nuclear Power Station located in...
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Favourable Commission opinion on planned disposal of radioactive waste under UK's Dounreay site restoration plan Brussels, 27 April 2005
Brussels, April 2005 Commission Opinion of 25 April 2005 concerning the plan for the disposal of radioactive waste arising from Dounreay Site Restoration Plan (DSRP) in Scotland in the United Kingdom...
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US Utility Regulators: Support for safe and timely disposal of nuclear waste as required by existing national policy
Washington, April 2005 The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) urges that priority attention be given to the long-established, but slow moving plan to safely dispose of...
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Agenda of the Research Working Party, 28 April
Brussels, Apr 2005 Full text of Document 1518/05 Proposal for the 7th Framework Programme 1. Continuation of the examination of the proposal: Themes: (a.m.): "Nanosciences" (poss.) "Socio-economic...
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Agenda of the Research Working Party, 29 April
Brussels, Apr 2005 Full text of Document 1520/05 Proposal for the 7th Framework Programme 1. Continuation of the examination of the proposal: Themes: (a.m.): "Transport", "Environment" (p.m.): "...