Maths, but knot as they know it
How do you make a "difficult" subject more popular? With educationists bemoaning a crisis in maths, the Centre for the Popularisation of Mathematics at the University of Wales in Bangor certainly has...
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Department audit
Nigel Hemmington , head of school, gives the lowdown on services management at Bournemouth University. Total number of academic staff : 70 Permanent academic staff : 50 Number on fixed-term contracts...
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Academe has poor record on ethnicity
Ethnic minorities are seriously underrepresented in higher education, with some subjects registering no ethnic-minority professors and less than a handful of senior staff, according to a Times Higher...
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'Boy Scouts' at Defra seek independent adviser
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs may turn to another academic to chair its Science Advisory Council after losing Roy Anderson to the Ministry of Defence this month. The council...
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Who got that job?
Elspeth Broady Head of School of Languages faculty of education and sport Brighton University Job advertised in The Times Higher , May 30, 2003 A-level students are turning away from modern languages...
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Today's news
Manchester merger creates UK's biggest university The new University of Manchester, with more than 36,000 students, will become Britain's biggest when the Queen hands over its royal charter today....
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COST (European Cooperation in Scientific and Technological Research) in the European Research Area (link)
Brussels, 21 Oct 2004 Full text of Document 313/04 Suite of documents 313/04 Subject: To position COST in the European Research Area (ERA) - report by the JAF Rapporteur for Task 2 Delegations will...
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MoU for the Implementation of COST E46, "Improvements in the Understanding and Use of De-Inking Technology" (link)
Brussels, 21 Oct 2004 Full text of Document 312/04 Suite of documents 312/04 Attached is the abovementioned Memorandum of Understanding signed in Brussels on 29 September 2004 by Finland, France and...
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Politicians, professors and protesters target sustainable, GM-free agriculture
Brussels, 21 Oct 2004 'We will continue with our fight against GMOs even if we have to be punished and even if we have to go back to prison,' José Bové, a leading French campaigner against...
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EU project to hold course on computational systems biology
Brussels, 21 Oct 2004 The EU project SYMBIONIC, funded as a 'specific support action' under the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) will hold a course on the computational systems biology of the neuronal...
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Seven EU countries call for increased cooperation in the search for an AIDS vaccine
Brussels, 21 Oct 2004 Health ministers from seven European countries, together with the European Commission, have announced that they will increase research cooperation in the search for an HIV/AIDS...
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Do not try yet to select 'best technology' for reducing vehicle emissions, says Dutch minister
Brussels, 21 Oct 2004 Dutch State Secretary for Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment Pieter van Geel has called for the further investigation of all technologies that could provide an...
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New virtual network for young researchers working on science and society issues
Brussels, 21 Oct 2004 A virtual network for young practitioners working on science and society issues has been launched - a direct outcome of a European Commission and Joint Research Centre (JRC)...
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China-Europe networking symposium on research networks
Brussels, 21 Oct 2004 A Chinese-European networking symposium on research networks and broadband solutions will take place in Shanghai, China, on 9 and 10 December. The event is supported by the...
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Laurie Taylor Column
A conference in London next week devoted to "The Changing Role of the Professor" will address "negative professorial images". Welcome to this afternoon's session on the popular image of the...