Oxford Brookes University is taking £500,000 out of its recruitment chest to attract five new professors to bolster its research strengths, writes Tony Tysome. It hopes that the posts in architecture...
Brussels, 21 Sep 2006 Full text of Document 12688/06 Addendum 01 Revision 01 Suite of documents 12688/06 No. Cion prop.: 8087/05 RECH 80 ATO 45 COMPET 68 CODEC 266, 11142/06 RECH 181 ATO 74 COMPET...
Brussels, 21 Sep 2006 A Eureka project involving Irish and Dutch researchers has developed a device designed to help keep narrow or blocked arteries open for longer, thereby ensuring a steady flow of...
Brussels, 21 Sep 2006 CERN's Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) - the world's largest superconducting solenoid magnet - has reached full field in testing. The instrument is part of the proton-proton Large...
Brussels, 21 Sep 2006 An EU-funded project has developed a series of tools to facilitate remote health monitoring of people with chronic diseases and conditions. Early trials on patients with a range...
Brussels, 21 Sep 2006 An environmental technology seminar on sustainable production and consumption - opportunities for research, will take place in Montpellier, France, on 11 and 12 October. The...
Brussels, 21 Sep 2006 CEA, a French government-funded technological research organisation, has organised a training day with the aim of answering the question 'How to answer the FP7 calls for...
Brussels, 21 Sep 2006 51st meeting of the COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION "COMPETITIVENESS" (Internal Market, Industry and Research) date: Monday 25 (10:00) September 2006 1. Adoption of the...
Brussels, 21 September 2006 The Commission yesterday appointed Mr Daniel JACOB as Deputy Director-General in charge of Community Research Programmes. Mr Daniel JACOB, 56, is currently the director...
University workers hit by increase in violence University and college staff in Edinburgh are facing growing levels of violence and abuse from students, lecturers' union leaders warned yesterday. One...
Understanding the Framework Agreement Dave Goodenough, Deputy Assistant Head of Human Resources at Poppleton University, replies to questions about the modernisation of pay structures. Q. What...
It can be hazardous running an elderly institution such as New College, Oxford, not least when you get curious about what its creator thought the institution was set up to do. It's worse if you have...
The rate of return from higher education - to both individuals and the state - has been debated since well before top-up fees were on the horizon. It had a report to itself in the Dearing Inquiry of...
This week's launch of GuildHE represents a welcome sign of life among those smaller institutions that can too easily be ignored in the scramble for influence over higher education policy. The...
Stephen Gorard and his colleagues have produced a very comprehensive and valuable review of the literature on widening participation ("Experts: access policy futile" and Opinion, September 15). While...