Brussels, 14 Oct 2004 Concerns about the health impacts of phthalates mean that some researchers were able to react quickly to the decision by the EU Competitiveness Council on 24 September to ban...
Brussels, 14 Oct 2004 A conference entitled 'Evaluations in the European Research Area' will take place in Maastricht, the Netherlands, on October. The conference will include discussions on the...
Brussels, 14 Oct 2004 An international commercial networking event on the biomarket and bioproducts for food will take place in Rothamsted, the UK, from 9 to 11 November. The Rothamsted International...
Brussels, 14 Oct 2004 The European Commission has issued a corrigendum to its call for tenders for support with the preparation of indicators, analysis and statistical issues related to the...
Brussels, 14 Oct 2004 Full text [...] General comments EUROCHAMBRES welcomes the Commission's intention to increase the research efforts at overall European level to attain the Lisbon and Barcelona...
More disturbing evidence of short-term casualisation in higher education - The Times Higher, October 8. Well, thank you for coming to see us today, Dr Cummings. I think everyone on this committee was...
Organisations that sell cars, food and houses have long had to face up to the fact that the attractive documents they use to persuade customers to buy may turn round to bite them when things go wrong...
There are few industries in which a company that has implemented price rises of per cent in the past four years can seem a model of restraint. But a new survey this week shows that this is the lowest...
With a little less flippancy and a little more thought, Gary Day (Opinion, October 8) would have made a more useful contribution to the debate on widening participation. Rather than bemoaning the...
The frightening thing about Gary Day's appeal for social exclusivity in the universities is that he probably means it. There is a good deal of prejudice here, but little logic. To take Day's field...
There seems to be a lot of hot air being expended on the issue of increasing the numbers of state-school pupils in prestigious universities. The Government could solve the problem at a stroke....
Bob Brecher's ideas to solve the admissions conundrum (Working Knowlege, October 8) are an eloquent expression of my long-held view that student places should be allocated by lottery. Brecher...
I am surprised by the excuses used by Nottingham University to justify the award of an honorary degree to Chinese minister Chen Zhili, who is now facing charges of torture and crimes against humanity...
Deian Hopkin commits the cardinal error of assuming that students need more and different sources of financial advice rather than a simplified system (Soapbox, October 8). Financial advice is best...
Yes, it's true "put a mirror on the floor... and you will see yourself feet upwards" (Book review, October 1). But exactly why? A plane mirror inverts space in whichever direction is perpendicular to...