Paris, 11 Jun 2004 An agreement between ESA and seven Member States to jointly build a major part of the MIRI instrument, which will considerably extend the capability of the James Webb Space...
Paris, 11 Jun 2004 The Alcatel Space / EADS Astrium Joint Alphabus Project Team in its role as system responsible for the Alphabus is in the process of issuing competitive invitation to tenders for...
Paris, 11 Jun 2004 Spaceflight engineers face three constant challenges: reducing weight and size, improving thermal insulation and increasing reliability. Progress in these fields does not just...
Niall Ferguson, the controversial British historian, launched a seething attack on fellow academic Martin Jacques and The Guardian during the Hay Festival last weekend. The professor of financial...
A dramatic long-term increase in the proportion of academics who are employed exclusively to conduct research is revealed in an analysis by The Times Higher . Latest figures from the ÌÇÐÄVlog...
FAMILY FORTUNES House of Bush, House of Saud , a disturbing insider account of the business links between the inner circle of the Bush administration and the Saudi royal family, reviewed by Alex...
Two cohorts of degree students were told they would receive "A grades" for work that could not be assessed properly because their tutors had been laid off. First and second-year art students at the...
Bristol University is bucking a national trend by setting up a new teaching and research centre for East Asian studies. The university believes that the interdisciplinary centre will play a major...
Lancaster University plans to axe its art department and concentrate investment in music and theatre studies instead. A closure recommendation by the university's management advisory group follows a...
The Government faced humiliating defeats in the House of Lords this week over its plans to introduce top-up fees as peers forced key concessions on the ÌÇÐÄVlog Bill. At the Bill's report...
Experts are planning to break the age-old link between measuring the passage of time and the motion of the Earth and Sun. Increasing conflict between the need for precision in the modern age and the...
It's early morning on June 8; 6.19 and 46 seconds to be precise. And it is so important to be precise today, writes Steve Farrar. A select audience of scientists and historians at the University of...
Scottish universities need more than £100 million in extra funding, according to the Association of University Teachers. In its submission to the Government's comprehensive spending review, the AUT...
The University of the West of England will be the lead sponsor of this year's St Paul's Carnival, the Southwest's answer to London's Notting Hill Carnival. Alfred Morris, vice-chancellor of UWE, said...
More than 1,000 scientists working in the Government's Forensic Science Service went on strike over pay as The Times Higher went to press. Prospect, the union representing the scientists, said that...