Stirling University is seeking nine new staff to beef up its enterprise and knowledge-transfer activities. The posts, advertised in today's Times Higher , range from a business development manager to...
Paris, 31 October 2006 NASA approves repair mission for Hubble Space Telescope After more than a decade of fascinating discoveries, the Hubble Space Telescope will soon be given the new beginning it...
Paris, 1 November 2006 The infrared surveyor AKARI, a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) mission with ESA participation, is nearing the completion of its first scan of the entire sky. During...
Paris, 31 October 2006 ESA will be hosting the 'ISS Research Technology from Europe' Industry Day on 7 November 2006 at the ESTEC facility in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. The event is open to...
Brussels, 1 November 2006 Full text of Document 14395/06 Suite of documents 14395/06 Brussels, 31 October "I/A" ITEM NOTE From General Secretariat of the Council To COREPER/Council No. Cion prop.:...
London, 31 October 2006 CVMP Reflection paper on the use of fluoroquinolones in food-producing animals in the European Union: Development of resistance and impact on human and animal health On 12...
Washington, 31 October 2006 Full Report Powerful tools for tackling many basic problems in sub-Saharan Africa -- namely hunger, malnutrition, and rural poverty -- could literally spring from the...
Cambridge anxiously views rival's feud on reform The bitter feud between dons at Oxford about reforms to the university's management has spread to Cambridge amid fears the university will be left...
"What would happen if a British researcher produced four pieces of music as a contribution to the RAE?" - Jonathan Adams, director of the company that supplies citation data for the World University...
The dust has settled, the freshers have arrived, viruses from all over the globe are merrily infecting their new hosts, and academics over the age of 50 are, it appears from all the press reports,...
There are few more sensitive issues for undergraduates - or the staff who teach them - than the amount and style of tuition offered on different courses at different universities. Applicants will...
Paisley University's wish to identify itself with the West of Scotland, rather than the industrial town of its origins, raises yet again the question of what's in a university name. Exchanging Luton...
Reading Paul Ramsden's letter (Letters, October ) I thought that a gust of autumn wind had flicked my Times Higher page from Letters to Laurie Taylor. As head of the Higher Education Academy, Ramsden...
It is easy for academics with secure jobs to preach, as Ian McNay did last week, that the purpose of universities should not be to increase students' employability but "quality of life" through...
There should not be any surprise that academia has sold out or that the soul of academia has been sacrificed on the altar of employability. This is because the globalisation of higher education is...