Major Mars Express scheduled orbit change achieved
Paris, 30 December 2003 This morning, at 09:00 CET, the first European mission to Mars registered another operational success. The Mars Express flight control team at ESOC prepared and executed...
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Record-breaking ancient galaxy clusters
Paris, 02 Jan 2004 A tale of two record-breaking clusters The cluster RDCS1252.9-29 The embryonic cluster TNJ1338-1942 The cluster RDCS1252.9-29 Studies of two distant galaxy clusters using a...
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Today's news
Back top-up fees or lose safety net for poor, MPs told Ministers will warn rebel Labour MPs this week that they must accept proposals for university top-up fees or risk losing a large new package of...
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Directive 2003/122 on control of high-activity sealed radioactive sources (link)
Brussels, 31 December 2003 Council Directive 2003/122/Euratom of 22 December 2003 on the control of high-activity sealed radioactive sources and orphan sources (OJ L346/57 31.12.2003). Full text...
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Carl Zeiss's acquisition of Bio-Rad referred to UK Competition Commission, CC invites evidence
London, 30 December 2003 The OFT today referred the proposed acquisition by Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH of the microscopy business of Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc to the Competition Commission (CC). The OFT has...
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Space technology goes down to Earth to support mining
Paris, December 30, 2003 Space exploration and underground mining both take place in extreme environments – so perhaps it is not too surprising that technology developed for one field is now being...
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First Double Star satellite successfully launched
Paris, December 29, 2003 This evening, at 20:06 CET, the Chinese National Space Administration (CNSA) successfully launched TC-1, the first of two scientific satellites known as Double Star. The...
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Major Mars Express scheduled orbit change achieved
Paris, 30 December 2003 This morning, at 09:00 CET, the first European mission to Mars registered another operational success. The Mars Express flight control team at ESOC prepared and executed...
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Record-breaking ancient galaxy clusters
Paris, 02 Jan 2004 A tale of two record-breaking clusters The cluster RDCS1252.9-29 The embryonic cluster TNJ1338-1942 The cluster RDCS1252.9-29 Studies of two distant galaxy clusters using a...
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Revealing figures behind the styles
Tutors who use some popular learning models could be wasting their time. The evidence, says Frank Coffield, suggests that all are not equal New staff are routinely asked to identify their predominant...
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Teaching: on the front line
What is your experience of teaching? Pat Leon asks teachers how they manage Name : Catriona Scott Age : 40 Job : Director of taught programmes at Dartington College of Arts, Totnes, Devon....
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Reach out and cuddle up to another discipline
Why stay faithful to one subject when you can hop into bed with another? Nick Saunders advocates a bit of collaboration Collaboration is a strange word, and means different things to different...
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Jobwatch: Change your convictions
If your job is beginning to feel like a long-term sentence in purgatory, you could do worse than to soothe your pain by transporting yourself south for a stretch in the sun. Chris Johnston reports...
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Who got that job?
Jill Nimmo, 43 Pensions Manager, Leeds University Administrative 3/4 (cica £30,000 p.a.) Job advertised in The THES , March 21 2003 The departure of vice-chancellor Alan Wilson is just one of many...
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Peerage for Triesman
David Triesman, general secretary of the Labour Party and former head of the Association of University Teachers, has been appointed to the House of Lords. His appointment comes before as many as 30...