It is no surprise that recent research by the Association of University Teachers has found that women trying to establish a career as academics are more likely than men to find themselves used as...
Finance is tougher than ever for students, so we must offer more aid and advice, says Deian Hopkin. As the dust settles over the ÌÇÐÄVlog Bill debate, the focus of attention in higher...
UCL is building an active alumni community for many more reasons than fundraising, writes Malcolm Grant. There is every reason why the UK needs to aspire to match the share of individual donations...
Parents get advice on how to beat the system The Economist magazine has given middle-class parents a blueprint on how to get their children into the best universities in Blair's Britain. The magazine...
Brussels, 07 Oct 2004 Overall state of play The Council was informed by Vice President of the Commission Loyola de Palacio on current developments concerning the European Global Navigation Satellite...
Washington, 07 Oct 2004 In a letter to Secretary of State Colin Powell, National Academy of Sciences President Bruce Alberts asked the U.S. delegation to the United Nations to vote against a proposed...
Brussels, 07 Oct 2004 Presenting new national measures regulating stem cell research, Research Minister François d'Aubert and Health Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy announced that France is to allow...
Brussels, 07 Oct 2004 Full text of Document 3590/04 1. Commission communication "Science and technology, the key to Europe's future - Guidelines for future European Union policy to support research...
Brussels, 07 Oct 2004 The Commission's Research DG has published a call for tenders for companies interested in planning and managing events in the fields of research and technological development....
Brussels, 07 Oct 2004 UNESCO is hosting a conference on the European Research Council (ERC) in Paris, France, on 25 and 26 October. Organised by the Initiative for Science in Europe (ISE), the...
Birmingham University calls in brand image consultants Wolf Olins after an internal marketing report finds that the university is regarded as "dull and conservative". The Times Higher, October 1...
Ever since universities in England were promised top-up fees, those in other parts of the UK have been lobbying politicians for a settlement that will allow them to compete on a reasonably level...
The idea, posited in this column last week, that higher education's performance indicators were too familiar to stir passions could not have been more wrong. Although universities' actual performance...
Should those individuals who have accepted chairs of research assessment exercise boards ("Big 15 to tackle RAE gamesters", October 1) not reconsider their positions? Neither they, nor those...
Is Rama Thirunamachandran of the ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding Council for England being tongue in cheek when he says that academics should "just do the research you want to do"? Surely he must know that...