Technology platform to revive Europe's steel research
Brussels, 24 Jul 2003 The European Commission, the steel industry, steel workers and their unions are to work together to create a technology platform which will define a strategic agenda for...
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Commission funded project aims to map Europe's ozone future
Brussels, 24 Jul 2003 The European Commission is funding new research aimed at assessing the contribution of high altitude polar clouds to ozone depletion as part of a wider campaign to improve...
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Model Contract for Marie-Curie actions
Brussels, 24 Jul 2003 Model Contract for Marie-Curie actions a) approved core contract - Mono contractor b) approved Annex II - General conditions - Mono contractor c) approved core contract - Pluri...
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EESC Opinion: Life Sciences and Biotechnology
Brussels, 16 July 2003 OPINION of the European Economic and Social Committee on the Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, to the Council and to the European Economic and...
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Students get ethical
Edinburgh University students have won the right to raise concerns about "unethical" investments in the university's multimillion-pound portfolio under a new code of conduct. The university court...
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MSPs warm to free research
The future workings of Scotland's new multi-party parliament may be uncertain, but one custom is continuing - the political intern scheme run by Edinburgh University. Eberhard "Paddy" Bort of...
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Most students back deferred fees plan, survey reveals
A majority of students support the government's decision to defer payment of tuition fees until after graduation, but most balk at the £3,000-a-year charges proposed by ministers, according to...
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Email embarrasses Birkbeck
As ill-judged remarks go, it is not on the scale of Jo Moore, the public relations consultant who dubbed September 11 "a good day to bury bad news". But Birkbeck College's media and publicity officer...
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Scottish contract culture continues
The proportion of researchers on short-term contracts in Scotland is likely to remain high despite demands that institutions take action to reduce it. Most of Scotland's higher education institutions...
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'Role split is an attack on identity'
Do you really need to do research to be a good tutor? Pat Leon reports The fury over proposals to create a teaching-only tier of universities is based partly on a belief that students benefit when...
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Fellows: on the front line
Pat Leon asks a winner of one of this year's national teaching fellowships how she manages. Name: Vicki Tariq Age: 46 Job: Senior lecturer in biology, Queen's University, Belfast. I'm a "skills...
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Pandemic fears over training gap
Medical students are receiving "patchy" training on infection, despite a growing risk of a new pandemic, the Lords science and technology committee said last week. At the release of a report on...
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Today's news
Top universities make breakaway move on pay The Russell Group of universities, representing 19 of the top research-led institutions, including Oxford, Cambridge and Bristol, is planning to break...
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Elite 19 to set own pay agenda
Top British universities are to break ranks with the rest of the nation's higher education institutions by setting their own policy on issues such as academic pay and student tuition fees. The move...
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Winston IVF clinic loses case at tribunal
A scientist who was dismissed from her job at Lord Robert Winston's world-renowned fertility unit at Imperial College London just days after she had suffered a fourth miscarriage has won a case...