Brussels, 04 Jun 2004 Interest among technology companies in the 2004 European Information Society Technologies (IST) Prize appears as high as ever, following the announcement by the organisers that...
Brussels, 04 Jun 2004 From 21 to 26 June, the Romanian Ministry of Education and Research and the Ministry of European Integration are organising 'Romanian Genomics Week' - a series of information...
Brussels, 04 Jun 2004 The European cystic fibrosis conference will be held in Birmingham, UK from 13 to 17 June. The programme of the conference will incorporate updates on important developments and...
Durham aims to retain graduates County Durham is trying to encourage graduates from Durham University to stay in the area rather than move south, in a bid to boost the local knowledge economy. (...
University chiefs are turning their backs on this year's staff pay deal just months after signing up to the biggest shake-up of academic careers for 40 years, the largest lecturers' union claimed...
The Government should be wary of using the tax system to collect deferred tuition fees for students in England, soon-to-be published research in Australia suggests. The research shows that Australian...
Sunday marks the 60th anniversary of D-Day, when 150,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy in what marked the beginning of the end of the Second World War in Europe. Befitting such an...
* Christine Jones, chief executive of Herefordshire and Worcestershire's Chamber of Commerce and Business Link, chair of Malvern Hills Science Park and a director of the Rural Regeneration Zone, has...
In a bid to sweeten the HE bill, universities will not be penalised for failing to widen access. Phil Baty reports The planned access regulator for higher education will have no power to penalise...
The editor of London Student , Europe's biggest-circulation student newspaper, was this week forced to defend a decision to publish a 285-word article that used the word "fu ck" 77 times. Lila Allen...
Universities, unions and students have reiterated concerns that proposed reforms to university admissions practices fail to address the key issue of increasing intakes of pupils from poor backgrounds...
Trends Is bigger better? Tracking student performance through an expanding sector Also Behind bars: Alan Dershowitz on Abu GhraibDear Derrida: philosopher Simon Blackburn tries his hand at being an...
Phil Baty reports from lecturers' union Natfhe's annual conference in Blackpool Natfhe activists have beaten off a proposal to give ordinary members a direct say in the running of their union....
Phil Baty reports from lecturers' union Natfhe's annual conference in Blackpool Lecturers' leaders have declared a global academic boycott of London Metropolitan University, and are set for a series...
Right to reflection Vice-chancellors in new universities are trying to squeeze out the "self-directed time" academics need for research and scholarly activity, Natfhe delegates heard. The conference...