Budget bottom line: decline
Full economic costing will harm research outside the elite circle - to the country's cost, says David Gillingham. In the week that Gordon Brown outlines his budget and offers the carrot of extra...
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Getting the cold shoulder? Elbow your way in...
Young academics often feel isolated and ill treated in a new job. The solution is to get connected, says Susan Bassnett More than 30 years ago, just after my 21st birthday, I took up my first...
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Jobwatch: Linguists require cunning
A specialism in medieval French knitting is not enough to secure a job and a first-class degree may not win AHRB funding. Pat Leon looks at the problems faced by language departments Falling student...
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Who got that job?
Claire Atkins, 32 School Manager School of Ocean and Earth Science Southampton Oceanography Centre Job advertised in The Times Higher , June 6 2003 A desire to get back to her Hampshire roots was...
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'15 rounds with Tyson' can be a knockout
Marathon three-hour teaching blocks left staff and students reeling at first. But refinements have made the strategy a success. Stephen Halliday reports When Buckingham Business School introduced a...
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Teaching: on the front line
What is your experience of teaching? Pat Leon asks teachers how they manage. Name : Mike Rowe Age : 36 Job : Lecturer in policing in the department of criminology, Leicester University. Salary :...
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Schwartz call for SATs
A national test to identify the best students is likely to be backed by the Schwartz review of university admissions when it publishes its recommendations next month. The review committee, headed by...
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How Winston rescued Attlee
Sir Winston Churchill covertly helped secure US funding that saved the Labour government of 1945 and enabled it to build the British welfare state. New research has revealed the extent to which the...
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Today's news
Education cash not enough, say universities Charles Clarke, the education secretary, yesterday set out his three-year budget, confirming that an extra £8.5 billion would be shared between...
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The European Group on Ethics makes public its Opinion on the ethical aspects of umbilical cord blood banking
Brussels, 18 March 2004 The European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies (EGE), chaired by the Swedish Philosopher, Göran Hermerén, has adopted on March 16th 2004 its Opinion no. 19 on...
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EU nanotechnology project to reconstruct human corneas using tissue engineering
Brussels, 18 Mar 2004 A new EU funded project is set to transform eye surgery and dramatically cut the number of experiments conducted on animals by reconstructing a human cornea in vitro. The '...
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Germans back adult stem cell research
Brussels, 18 Mar 2004 A survey carried out in Germany has found that the general public is not against stem cell research and might actually encourage the government to use adult stem cells for...
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Commission proposes creation of fast track 'scientific visa'
Brussels, 18 Mar 2004 The European Commission has adopted a proposal for a directive and two recommendations aimed at introducing a 'scientific visa' to facilitate the movement of third country...
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Commission Communication on the presentation of a proposed directive and two proposed recommendations on the admission of third-country nationals to carry out scientific research in the European Commu
Brussels, 18 Mar 2004 COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE COUNCIL AND THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT on the presentation of a proposal for a directive and two proposals for recommendations on the...
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Final Draft Proposal for a European Patent Litigation System and Draft Statute of the European Patent Court (links)
Geneva, 18 Mar 2004 The working group on litigation and its subgroup has been working on a draft proposal for a European Patent Litigation Agreement (pdf 209 KB) and a statute (pdf 103 KB) for a...