Working towards the Barcelona target
Brussels, 11 Sep 2003 Policy makers at European and national level are showing their commitment to the Barcelona objective with a series of initiatives designed to increase investment in research to...
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Commission sets out plans for European hydrogen and fuel cells partnership
Brussels, 11 Sep 2003 Commission President Romano Prodi, Vice President Loyola de Palacio and Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin have outlined plans for a European hydrogen and fuel cells...
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Seminar on the contribution of agricultural research to European competitiveness
Brussels, 11 Sep 2003 Scotland Europa and the Scottish crop research institute will host a seminar on the role of plant science and agricultural research in contributing to European competitiveness...
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Divine invigilation
Bored invigilators who spent the summer penning poems based on what they could see in the exam hall or outside its windows were rewarded with prizes last week. Staff at Trinity and All Saints College...
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Don's diary: Farewell 'quality police'
Monday No, not flying back from Kalamazoo in post-conference triumph. Actually looking round room LW 119 wondering how best to gut it pre-retirement. The formal farewell was weeks ago - not a dry eye...
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Why I... believe it is time that research supervision had an overhaul
Tony Fell Head of the Graduate School, University of Bradford, and executive member of the UK Council for Graduate Education. Pressure from postgraduates and funding agencies has transformed the...
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Break up RAE scam
Let's scrap unfair and wasteful dual-support research funding, says Michael Driscoll It's time to get rid of the dual-support system for funding university research and replace it with a single open...
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Lab cultures put females off
The institutions of science that cause women to avoid the field must change, argues Judith Glover In common with most other industrialised countries, the UK has a long-standing record of compiling...
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Slice of job life is worth bread
Let's hear it for the sandwich degree, says Stephen Gomez. The good old sandwich degree deserves a renaissance. My faculty has offered it in sciences for nearly 30 years and, as placements tutor, I...
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Teaching: on the front line
What is your experience of teaching? Pat Leon asks teachers how they manage. Name: David Webb Age: 41 Job: Reader in electronic engineering and member of the photonics research group at Aston...
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US hit by fees hike and cuts in budget
Students at public universities in the US are returning to their campuses this month to find dramatically higher tuition costs and poorer service after budget cuts and increases in enrolment fees....
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Ethics fears hit tests
Undergraduates are being coerced into taking part in psychological experiments, it was claimed this week. While thousands of psychology students volunteer to be subjects in research projects every...
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Wales to look at less selective policy on research funding
The Higher Education Funding Council for Wales is likely to resist following England's move towards greater concentration of research funding, its senior officials have said. Instead, it may continue...
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Academics wish to keep dual role
Most academics are committed to both teaching and research activities and the synergy between the two informs their work, a conference heard this week. Chris Webster, professor of urban planning at...
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Today's news
Red tape delays cancer cures, researchers say The search for cures for cancer and other diseases is being strangled by red tape from Brussels and Westminster, scientists from Cancer Research UK said...