Ancient desert markings imaged from orbit
Paris, 20 Feb 2004 Visible from ESA's Proba spacecraft 600 kilometres away in space are the largest of the many Nasca Lines; ancient desert markings now at risk from human encroachment as well as...
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Leaders of France, Germany and the UK call for a more innovative Europe
Brussels, 20 Feb 2004 The leaders of the EU's three richest Member States met in Germany on 18 February, where Europe's competitiveness was high on the agenda. In a letter to the European Council and...
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Today's news
Wave of strikes to hit colleges this week University lecturers begin a week of industrial action today over pay. Members of the Association of University Teachers voted decisively to take strike...
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Unions cry foul over hike in v-cs' pay
Vice-chancellors have again accepted pay rises far higher than those offered to their staff, prompting accusations of double standards from academic unions. The average pay rise in 2002-03, the...
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No sex, please, we're too politically correct (and a little prudish)
Sex has been in decline for more than 20 years in the pages of academic journals. The fall has been matched by the steady rise of the word "gender", which now dominates social sciences, arts and...
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In the news: Sir Alan Langlands
Sweeteners that could be paid to graduate recruits from the public purse are to come under scrutiny in a review led by Sir Alan Langlands, principal and vice-chancellor of Dundee University. The...
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Appointments
The University of Leeds has appointed: Paul Garner , former professor of Spanish and Latin American studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London, Cowdray chair of Spanish; Garik Markarian to a...
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Bristol suffers in row fallout
The row over Bristol University's decision to offer lower entrance grades to disadvantaged state-school pupils has been followed by a drop in the number of applications, according to figures out this...
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Staff may be vetted if under-18s admitted
University staff could be vetted by the Criminal Records Bureau if proposed reforms of the school-exam system lead to more under-18s applying to higher education, it emerged this week. The Tomlinson...
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Next week
Textbook guide 16 pages of reviews of the latest textbooks. Also The fate of Indians in the Amazon : A review of John Hemming's Die if you Must. Books focus : Women's and gender studies Back to the...
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Public not so anti-GM
The government's public debate about genetic modification overestimated the strength of anti-GM feeling in the UK, new research has found. Researchers at Cardiff University, the University of East...
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Sport still on track
Southampton University said this week that it had made no decisions over the future of its sports courses after media reports that hundreds of students were likely to be "farmed out" to local...
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Protest over parking
Students took to the streets in Northern Ireland this week - in their cars. Ulster University undergraduates and staff from the three main campuses parked in streets around the sites to protest...
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Resistance to cuts
Swansea University managers came under renewed pressure this week to abandon restructuring plans that would lead to the closure of four departments. More than a hundred students protested as Richard...
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Mass strike planned
Lecturers at 12 further education colleges have voted in favour of industrial action next Thursday in protest at their institutions' failure to honour a national pay agreement. Lecturers' union...