Government plans to improve healthcare in the UK are in jeopardy after the latest figures revealed that there may be too few medical lecturers to teach the next generation of doctors. The number of...
Luton University will lose about 100 staff - more than 10 per cent of its total - through compulsory and voluntary redundancies, it emerged this week. Twenty-two academics and 12 support staff have...
The Medical Research Council has made the first of a raft of potential changes to its much-criticised funding system. It has announced a commitment of almost £5 million for individual project grants...
Without petroleum jelly in your desk drawer, you're just not ready for that civil disaster at work, says Valerie Atkinson Now that the possibility of apocalyptic war has been so radically diminished...
As more staff reach their 60s, institutions face the dilemma of whether to replace old for promising new staff or to attract RAE point-scorers with professorships and salaries to match. Pat Leon...
Sarah Holmes , 33 Clinical Director for the School of Professionals Complementary to Dentistry Portsmouth Institute of Medicine, Health and Social Care £52,640 - £68,505 pro rata Job advertised in...
Students need a guiding hand to get the most out of cyberchat. Gwyneth Hughes and Lynda Lewis believe e-mentors are the way forward. Some students quickly become comfortable with learning in...
What is your experience of teaching? Pat Leon asks teachers how they manage Name : Jude Davies Age : 38 Job : Senior lecturer in the School of Cultural Studies, King Alfred's College, Winchester...
Top-up fees won't mean more cash, say dons Dons at Cambridge are urging a rethink of the university’s bursary scheme after calculating that it could end up absorbing almost all its income from top-up...
Brussels, 15 January 2004 Today in Brussels European Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin presented the EU blueprint on basic research. The Communication on "Europe and fundamental research"...
Brussels, 15 Jan 2004 The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) has welcomed a communication from the Commission aimed at boosting the EU's innovation capabilities in the context of the...
Bruxelles, le 15 janvier 2004 Suite à l'annonce du Président américain George W. Bush au sujet de la politique spatiale américaine, le Commissaire européen chargé de la Recherche, Philippe Busquin, s...
Brussels, 15 Jan 2004 While the new President of the European Council, Bertie Ahern, touched only briefly on research when outlining his country's agenda for its six month stint at the helm of the EU...
Brussels, 15 Jan 2004 The UK's Royal Society has published a working paper which claims that a rigorous analysis of how science is funded in Member States should be made before a decision is taken to...
Brussels, 15 Jan 2004 Venturefest York, to take place on 5 February in York, the UK, will provide entrepreneurs and start-ups in technology sectors with information on setting up a new business,...