FE enrolments to double, says funding council
Funding chiefs claimed this week that further education will soon be back on target for recruiting more students, writes Tony Tysome. This is despite numbers falling for two consecutive years. The...
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Question and Answers on the regulation of GMOs in the EU (link)
Brussels, 28 January 2004 What are GMOs and GMMs? Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and genetically modified micro-organisms (GMMs) can be defined as organisms (and micro-organisms) in which the...
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Question and Answers on the regulation of GMOs in the EU (link)
Brussels, 28 January 2004 What are GMOs and GMMs? Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and genetically modified micro-organisms (GMMs) can be defined as organisms (and micro-organisms) in which the...
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Queen's birthday honours
KNIGHTS BACHELOR Martyn Arbib, president of Perpetual plc, for services to charities, especially education. John Baker, QC, Downing professor of the laws of England, University of Cambridge, for...
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Fighter refused to play Hollywood's shame game
A Very Dangerous Citizen
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Worldbeaters 'pool resources'
Universities should become more like private sector companies, axeing weaker courses and focusing on their strengths, vice-chancellors are to be told. To compete successfully in increasingly...
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Check emails, fix up meeting with councillors, buy Kit Kat
Just what do vice-chancellors do all day? Harriet Swain joins Michael Brown of Liverpool John Moores University to find out, in the first in a series on the working lives of people in higher...
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Yale academic seeks no-strike lecture pledge
The bestselling British author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers has stepped into a dispute between Yale University and its graduate teaching assistants by laying down conditions under which...
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The European Research Area, towards 3% of EU GDP (Extracted from Council/Commission press releases on the Competitiveness Council of 26 November)
Brussels, th November 2002 The Council held an exchange of views, based on the Commission's communication, " The European Research Area: Providing new momentum - Strengthening, reorienting, opening...
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From today's UK papers
FINANCIAL TIMES Unwanted Christmas gifts are economically inefficient. John Kay examines US academic Joel Waldford's super-rational view of Christmas. THE GUARDIAN Thirty-six Scottish pupils may...
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Plea for French-built synchrotron
France should develop a new-generation synchrotron on its own territory, a parliamentary committee has unanimously concluded, flatly contradicting former research minister Claude All gre's decision...
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News in brief
V-cs shun 'Mickey Mouse' and elite tag Vice-chancellors have hit back at claims that universities are purveyors of "Mickey Mouse" degrees and elitism. Universities UK launched its Employability and...
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IT and research ambitions of the Presidency
Copenhagen, 28 June 2002 During the Danish Presidency, the Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation, Helge Sander, will be the President of two Councils of Ministers: Telecommunications (IT...
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G8 members commit to lifelong learning
Leaders of the world's industrial nations have signed a charter outlining their common goals on lifelong learning. G8 members signed the charter at their recent summit in Germany. It says that...
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Clergyman's formula predicts Hollywood hits
The ideas of an 18th-century English clergyman have been used by two management scientists to forecast the success of new movies with unprecedented accuracy. Two American experts have turned to the...