Brussels, 5 October 2006 The 2006 EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard shows that the top 1000 EU companies increased their R&D by an average of 5.3% in 2005. This figure is in...
Brussels, 05 Oct 2006 Hydrogen has frequently been touted as a realistic solution to the world's energy quandary, providing clean, limitless energy at a time when climate change and diminishing...
Brussels, 05 Oct 2006 Some 48 companies involved in the European Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology Platform (HFP) signed a declaration on creating a Joint Technology Initiative (JTI) on the eve of...
Brussels, 05 Oct 2006 Representatives from national food safety authorities have signed a 'Declaration of Intent' with the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), pledging to strengthen scientific...
Brussels, 05 Oct 2006 Full text of Document 3294/06 1. FP7 and Rules for Participation (EC) Â examination of Presidency texts (docs. to follow) 2. Any other business. [Public Info Net automatically...
Imperial College splits from University of London The University of London today lost one of its most prestigious member institutions - but hopes to expand, with other institutions joining. The...
There they go again. More interference. Who's "they"? The QAA inspectors. They've prepared a report for the Burgess Group that argues that we should abolish degree classifications. Abolish...
Global university rankings are now the subject of incessant debate on the international conference circuit. They have also spawned a host of national and institutional discussions. Over one weekend...
There is no immutable law that teaching groups must be smaller in higher education than they are in schools. Sir Christopher Ball, a former warden of Keble College, Oxford, argued long ago that...
I am still puzzled as to why the introduction of top-up fees should make so much difference to our culture (Features, September 29). Universities have always received fees for students, but hitherto...
When Baroness Blackstone, as Higher Education Minister, introduced tuition fees in 1998, she told demonstrating students that it was a socialist measure. Now, wearing a different hat as vice-...
I fear that your correspondent, writing about the European Union free-for-all in relation to fees (Letters, September 15), has ignored (as do most decisionmakers) the fact that it is only full-time...
I note with interest your survey of the thoughts of academics on students as customers. Surely students are protesters, agitators and rebels - three activities that these days I suppose could label...
Why are universities running scared from metrics-based research assessment? Some 80 to 85 per cent of most science, technology, maths and engineering subjects are being assessed in the research...
The letters on "game-playing" for this research assessment exercise and the financial consequences of the result (September 29) have not separated two important issues: how to rank the outcomes given...