French scientists are furious about alleged government plans to gain control over the forthcoming Research Evaluation Agency. The mounting protest is the latest in more than two years of revolt...
Israel's seven research universities will remain closed when the new academic year begins next month unless the Government hands over more than 350 million shekels (£44 million) that have been cut...
The belief that academics can speak only in their expert field stifles debate before it begins, argues Roy Harris. Freedom of speech is often regarded as imposing some responsibilities on those who...
I did think of writing about a document someone from somewhere gave me recently entitled Supporting Students with Learning Differences and Disabilities but didn't want to spoil your enjoyment by...
University students in the US are posting videos of their professors delivering lectures without asking for permission from the lecturers. One such victim is Judith Thorpe, whose lecture at the...
So much for free speech on campus. The head of legal services at Sunderland University has had access to a website titled "itspublicknowledge" blocked. A further irony: the site is all about the...
The rumour mill is already busy in the build-up to Oxford University's big vote on its governance reforms, which is set for mid-November. Academics fear that if the reforms are defeated, the...
Greenwich University has had a swift rethink over exactly which workshops it should be offering its academics. The "Programme leaders' workshop" that the university had advertised has been cancelled...
The Thinker - Rodin Royal Academy of Arts, London. Until January 1, 2007 Thought doesn't draw attention to itself. It is usually about something else. We cannot even see thinking taking place....
Autobiographers have an unsettling tendency to embroider the facts of their lives, says John Sutherland. Jane Eyre comes round on television as often as the World Cup, and with almost as much...
Forget Iraq, the legitimacy of a government built on little electoral support is the biggest political issue, says David Runciman. Tony Blair went into his final Labour Party conference as one of the...
Brussels, 28 Sep 2006 In adopting a joint resolution on the Galileo programme, MEPs call on the Commission to assess what modifications in legal and procedural regulations could be made in order to...
Brussels, 28 Sep 2006 COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT pursuant to the second subparagraph of Article 251 (2) of the EC Treaty concerning the common position of the...
Brussels, 28 Sep 2006 In adopting a report, MEPs welcomes an action plan by the European Commission for a safe, integrated and responsible strategy for nanosciences and nanotechnologies for the...
28 Sep 2006 Nanosciences and nanotechnologies: an action plan for Europe 2005-2009 ( A6-0216/2006 ) Rapporteur: Miloslav Ransdorf (GUE/NGL, CZ) Report adopted by a show of hands, with one amendment...