Environmentally compatible forest products
Brussels, 23 Oct 2003 The first international conference on environmentally compatible forest products will be held from 22 to 24 September 2004 in Oporto, Portugal. This meeting aims to bring...
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ESA's Integral discovers hidden black holes
Paris, 23 Oct 2003 Integral, ESA's powerful gamma-ray space telescope, has discovered what seems to be a new class of astronomical objects. These are binary systems, probably including a black hole...
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Let gravity assist you...
Paris, 23 Oct 2003 'Fly-bys', or 'gravity assist' manoeuvres, are now a standard part of spaceflight and are used by almost all ESA interplanetary missions. Imagine if every time you drove by a city...
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Nuna II breaks all records in the World Solar Challenge!
Paris, 23 Oct 2003 The Dutch solar car Nuna II, using ESA space technology, finished first in the World Solar Challenge, a 3010 km race right across Australia for cars powered by solar energy. Having...
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20% pay rise plan fails to pacify unions
Some lecturers could get pay rises of 20 per cent next year, according to figures released by employers this week. The news comes as the two main academic trade unions crank up the threat of...
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'Fifth dimension' lures intrepid team
A fizz of evaporating black holes could give a team of British physicists a glimpse into the fifth dimension. The experiment, which is straight out of the pages of a science-fiction novel, will be...
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In the news: Ruth Deech
Dame Ruth Deech was this week appointed the first independent adjudicator for higher education. She will act as the ombudsman for student complaints nationwide, replacing the antiquated visitor...
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Appointments
Peter Goddard , master of St John's College, Cambridge and professor of theoretical physics, has been appointed director of the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Princeton, from...
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QAA fails 12% of foundations
Quality watchdogs are to raise serious questions about the standard of foundation degrees, casting doubt on the government's flagship higher education expansion policy. After the first-ever...
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Minister favours doubling grants in line with Scotland
Student grants should be doubled to £2,000, although the government is also keen to waive fees, higher education minister Alan Johnson said this week. He told politicians and students gathered at the...
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EU fees fear may cost Britain dear
Introducing top-up fees could cost UK higher education millions of pounds in lost income from European Union students, the British Council has warned, writes Tony Tysome. The council is worried that...
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V-c-turned-DG to do battle for sector but declares support for top ups
Sir Alan Wilson, vice-chancellor of Leeds University, was this week appointed the first director-general for higher education, charged with driving forward the government's student access and...
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Next week
IMPERIAL SUNSETS Hugh Thomas reflects on the nature of empires and the fact that they usually end at a time when no one expects it ALSO Philip Anderson finds Susan Greenfield's vision of the future...
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APU announces new v-c
Anglia Polytechnic University has announced that David Tidmarsh will take over from vice-chancellor Michael Malone-Lee when he retires next autumn. Professor Tidmarsh is pro vice-chancellor of the...
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Standards 'charade'
Statisticians this week delivered a damning verdict on scientific standards applied in performance monitoring of higher education and other public services. A working party of the Royal Statistical...