Brussels, 12 Oct 2006 Parliament adopted a report by a large majority - 565 votes in favour to 29 against and 15 abstentions - calling for stricter animal welfare rules in the EU. The report calls on...
Brussels, 12 Oct 2006 Full text of Document 3411/06 1. Risk sharing finance facility - examination of Presidency text 2. International Scientific and Technological cooperation agreements (EC and...
Brussels, 12 Oct 2006 Full text of Document 3406/06 1. Annotated Agenda for the 6th Session of the Codex Ad Hoc Intergovernmental Task Force on Foods derived from Biotechnology (TF FBT), Chiba, Japan...
Khatami lecture attracts protesters Former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami will face protests from students and human rights groups as he delivers a keynote lecture at the University of St Andrews...
Is everybody here? Sorry, we're a little cramped this morning but our usual lecture room is currently awaiting refurbishment. No need to stand at the back. There are still a few empty chairs here at...
To learn English, go to Catalonia. Fiscal incentives for language learning are on the platforms of both main parties in the forthcoming elections there. It makes one wonder what might winkle most...
Government tsars are not appointed when everything in their field of expertise is going smoothly, so it is no surprise that John Holman appears to face overwhelming odds in the new role of national...
Changes of governance, as both Oxford and Cambridge have demonstrated over recent years, often generate strong feelings in universities, however dry they may appear to the outside observer. But the...
The London Metropolitan University dispute over the attempted imposition of a contract that would have undermined members' professional role was the most complex higher education local industrial...
We object to the assertion that the University and College Union "jeopardised its future industrial strength" by failing to support members at London Metropolitan University during their contract...
The London Metropolitan University dispute was bitter, but I have little doubt that union members received local, regional and national support. Yes, there are lessons to learn from what happened,...
In getting a negotiated contract at London Metropolitan University, lecturers scored a victory over an intransigent management that caused other such managements to think twice. To publicly suggest...
During our long dispute, Sally Hunt came to speak at a lecturers' union Natfhe meeting at London Metropolitan University and promised us total support. I tried to take up that offer: no one at the...
Gary Day attempted to write about students with learning differences and disabilities in his usual witty and urbane manner (Columnist, September 29). As the co-author of the staff information...
US - no research assessment exercise - "Scoops Nobels" (News in brief, October 6); UK - RAE - no Nobels. Conclusion: continue to waste money, time and resources on a process that empirical evidence...