Washington, 07 Oct 2004 In a letter to Secretary of State Colin Powell, National Academy of Sciences President Bruce Alberts asked the U.S. delegation to the United Nations to vote against a proposed...
Brussels, 07 Oct 2004 Presenting new national measures regulating stem cell research, Research Minister François d'Aubert and Health Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy announced that France is to allow...
Brussels, 07 Oct 2004 Full text of Document 3590/04 1. Commission communication "Science and technology, the key to Europe's future - Guidelines for future European Union policy to support research...
Brussels, 07 Oct 2004 The Commission's Research DG has published a call for tenders for companies interested in planning and managing events in the fields of research and technological development....
Brussels, 07 Oct 2004 UNESCO is hosting a conference on the European Research Council (ERC) in Paris, France, on 25 and 26 October. Organised by the Initiative for Science in Europe (ISE), the...
Birmingham University calls in brand image consultants Wolf Olins after an internal marketing report finds that the university is regarded as "dull and conservative". The Times Higher, October 1...
Ever since universities in England were promised top-up fees, those in other parts of the UK have been lobbying politicians for a settlement that will allow them to compete on a reasonably level...
The idea, posited in this column last week, that higher education's performance indicators were too familiar to stir passions could not have been more wrong. Although universities' actual performance...
Should those individuals who have accepted chairs of research assessment exercise boards ("Big 15 to tackle RAE gamesters", October 1) not reconsider their positions? Neither they, nor those...
Is Rama Thirunamachandran of the Higher Education Funding Council for England being tongue in cheek when he says that academics should "just do the research you want to do"? Surely he must know that...
I went to my first RAE meeting of the cycle this week. I see that only one panel chair comes from a new university, and the criteria for assessment will not be published until late 2005, leaving a...
There seem to be no guidelines from the RAE to indicate what constitutes "performance research" in performance departments. Would it not be preferable for performative elements to be followed up by...
Peep's Diary (October 1) reported "sightings" of me in Brighton last Monday night at the Labour Party conference. This report came as something of a shock since I arrived in London from South Wales...
Your article "DFES reveals pensions plan" (September 24) is inaccurate. It is completely wrong to say that the "statutory retirement age" for teachers and lecturers is being raised to 65. There is no...
I had imagined that the use of the phrase "monopoly state socialism" when debating the future of National Health Service provision was the last refuge of third-rate journalists. David Marsland's...