Call for FP7 projects
The next European research funding programme, Framework 7, will start on time - on January 1 - after the European Parliament voted it through last week. The first calls for proposals for research...
Search
-
-
Peers to oversee new RAE system
Government abandons 'crude mono-metrics' in its proposed research quality system, Anthea Lipsett reports Academics' research quality will continue to be judged in part by their peers, it emerged this...
-
Archbishop hits back
Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, has hit out at the "suppression" of Christian unions on university campuses with an impassioned defence of free speech, writes Anthea Lipsett. Writing...
-
Tory plan for ideas agency
A future Conservative government should set up a ?1 billion agency to turn research ideas into products and services, a task force has recommended. An Innovative Projects Agency would correct "the UK...
-
Leitch: tie learning to work
Skills review calls for more adults with degrees tailored to employment, write Claire Sanders and Chloe Stothart More than four out of ten adults should have a degree-level qualification by 2020, the...
-
UCU top-job candidates set out stall
Three hopefuls are on their marks as the race to become general secretary begins, writes Tony Tysome The race is on to determine who will become the first sole general secretary of the world's...
-
Tutor's pen is all-mighty
Lecturers struggling to stay awake after marking their 100th exam paper of the evening might be forgiven for feeling despondent. But have they considered the feelings of the students whose morale can...
-
?8m pot to coax wary publicists
RCUK supports researchers fearful of disapproving peers, writes Anthea Lipsett Academics keen to boost their public profiles and publicise their work will benefit from an ?8 million initiative to...
-
Salford 'not guilty'
Salford University has won an employment tribunal against a former academic who made claims of unfair dismissal, sex discrimination and three others. In a judgment this week, the Salford tribunal...
-
Edge Hill pay deal
The University and College Union has withdrawn a threat of strike action and an academic boycott at Edge Hill University after securing a new pay deal. The union said that Edge Hill was imposing an...
-
Sennett wins award
Richard Sennett, professor of sociology at the London School of Economics, is the winner of the 2006 Hegel Prize, awarded to a prominent thinker once every three years.
-
Correction
It was reported last week that Manchester University spin-off company Transitive had won ?500,000 for a knowledge transfer prize. The sum was actually received by the university itself.
-
'Everyone is a loser in a misconduct case'
Academic fraud can do great damage to reputations, but are universities doing enough to tackle it, asks Phil Baty What drives an academic to research fraud? That's "the thousand-dollar question",...
-
An ethicist skilled in the magical arts of deception
'Medical ethics can be quite dry, so any way of making it more interesting helps. But I don't thrust magic on people. I ask for their consent to be deceived. When I first started I didn't like lying...
-
US falls for soft diplomacy
Portugal and China strike deals with US institutions in bids to build research and extend cultural ties, writes Jon Marcus The US is entering into lucrative contracts with governments to help develop...