Head of student counselling service, Royal Holloway, University of London Student counselling has been under attack recently with counsellors accused of perpetuating a "victim culture", but the...
Funding changes reward unpopular courses, say Martin Conway and Andrew Young The Higher Education Funding Council for England recently proposed changes to the way in which different disciplines will...
How to achieve better conditions for part-time lecturers? Bring in the QAA, say Mark Van Hoorebeek and James Marson It seems that time is running out for universities that make full (and perhaps...
What about making your next move one that crosses the Channel? Ruth Morse has some advice for Francophiles. Ayear in Provence? Why not a year teaching in a university in Provence, or somewhere else...
The UK is building a critical mass in e-learning and the UKeU is fuelling this drive with the appointment of four researchers at its eLearning Research Centre, writes Pat Leon. The UKeU eLearning...
Hilary French, former deputy head of design products, has been appointed head of the School of Architecture and Design at the Royal College of Art. Ian Ivory has taken over as...
Scientists test Blair and find him wanting More than 100 leading scientists have made an appeal to Tony Blair to save British science from a tide of neglect and abuse that is driving the brightest...
Paris, 30 Oct 2003 Since Tuesday 28 October, explosive events originating from the Sun have been bathing the Earth and its surroundings in high energy radiation. Although 150 million kilometres away...
Brussels, 30 Oct 2003 Preliminary assessments by the European Environment Agency (EEA) suggest that this summer's heatwave contributed to the worst ozone pollution seen in Europe for almost a decade...
Brussels, 30 Oct 2003 A new study suggests that the pool of animals capable of harbouring the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) virus is larger than was first thought. Research teams from the...
Brussels, 30 Oct 2003 Europe does not need more research, but more efficient and effective research, if an innovation-based economy is to develop, Academic Director of the animal hygiene department...
Brussels, 30 Oct 2003 'A spoon full of sugar makes the medicine go down', or so we learned from Mary Poppins. But a new EU-backed network of micro-encapsulators has other ideas. The European...
Brussels, 28 Oct 2003 Full text of Document 13242/03 Suite of documents 13242/03 Subject: - Nuclear package, "safety standards" - Nuclear safety in Hungary - International agreements and negotiations...
Brussels, 30 Oct 2003 A Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) projects poster session will take place from 21 to23 April 2004, in Poznan, Poland. The session, which will be held during an international...
Brussels, 30 Oct 2003 The European Parliament's scientific and technological options assessment (STOA) annual lecture will take place in Brussels on 4 November. Wolfgang Ketterle, a physicist and...