Brussels, 28 May 2004 The European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) has published a call for tenders for services relating to thematic studies in the field of geo-spatial modelling of land-...
Brussels, 28 May 2004 An information day on the second joint call for proposals for the thematic priorities information society technologies (IST) and nanotechnologies and nanosciences will take...
Paris, 31 May 2004 An important step forward has just been made in the development of ESA's Vega launcher. After several months work at the Guiana Propellant Plant at Europe's Spaceport the inert...
'Third-way' sociologist Anthony Giddens has striven to connect society and politics in a changed world through his work, not least in his bestselling textbook. Michael North reports In an analysis of...
Seldom can a textbook be said to have defined a new academic discipline, but Documents in Mycenaean Greek , first published in 1956, did just that for Mycenaean studies. Michael Ventris announced his...
Sir Michael Atiyah this week received the Abel prize for mathematics for joint work on one of the most influential theorems of the 20th century. Sir Michael, 75, honorary professor of mathematics at...
Ian Wood , chairman and chief executive officer of John Wood Group, former chairman of Scottish Enterprise and of the British Trade International Oil and Export Board and winner of numerous business...
Government accused of 'mission drift' in reshaping flagship degree. Tony Tysome writes Government advisers are considering a radical reshaping of the government's flagship two-year foundation degree...
A 100,000-strong super-union representing higher and further education lecturers will come a step closer this weekend as the leaders of Natfhe and the Association of University Teachers come together...
It was a dream come true for the eight second-year environmental science students at Newcastle University last Friday. They shuffled into the exam room at 9.30am, grimly resigned to the two-hour test...
* Explain the nature of the exercise clearly to students * Specify particular books or websites that must be used as some of the source materials * Require the submission of a rough draft * Require...
An upsurge in plagiarism is placing unprecedented pressure on hard-pressed academics to spot the copycats, according to experts. A range of factors, from easy internet access to greater term-time...
The first Times Higher reader who is able to identify all eight plagiarism clues correctly will win a bottle of champagne. The solutions and a guide to preventing and spotting plagiarism will be...
Work has begun to link five radio telescopes across the UK with a fibre-optic network that will create a virtual telescope spanning some 217km. The e-Merlin network, which includes Manchester...
Women, young people and those with low qualifications are the most likely groups to accept that they should save money in a learning account for their post-16 education, a study has found. Low...