UNICE views on the proposed rules for participation under FP7
Brussels, 01 Jun 2006 Full text UNICE Union of Industrial and Employers' Confederations of Europe Union des Confédérations de l'Industrie et des Employeurs d'Europe
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EU biotech industry victim of 'chronic underfunding', says EuropaBio
Brussels, 01 Jun 2006 The EU's biotechnology industry is the victim of underfunding, causing it to lag significantly behind the US, according to a report commissioned by EuropaBio, the European...
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Not quite like twinned cities - UK's Royal Society launches pairing scheme for MEPs and scientists
Brussels, 01 Jun 2006 The UK's Royal Society has launched a new scheme pairing MEPs and scientists, to bridge the gap between politics and research. At the launch in Brussels on 31 May, former...
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Belgium to build first eco-friendly Antarctic research station
Brussels, 01 Jun 2006 The International Polar Foundation (IPF) unveiled its final plans for the first polar station to be powered solely by renewable sources of energy at a site in the Antarctic on...
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Today's news
Jobs to be axed as pay row deepens University staff will lose their jobs in order to fund an inflation-busting pay rise for lecturers, it was announced last night. Glasgow Caledonian University...
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Laurie Taylor Column
Roger, are you there? Do pick up the phone, darling. You know how I hate these horrible machines. Roger? Yes, mother, I'm here. I'm here. But why on earth are you ringing? It's still almost seven...
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Leader: UCU benefits to outlast dispute
The continuing uncertainties and bitterness surrounding the pay dispute should not prevent higher education as a whole from welcoming this week's establishment of the University and College Union....
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Leader: Reading the DfES runes
The decision on how to replace Sir Alan Wilson as the Department for Education and Skills' most senior official responsible for higher education will have the Kremlin watchers out in force. Creating...
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Boycott is betrayal of our values 1
The Natfhe boycott of Israeli academics "who do not publicly disassociate themselves from Israeli policies" goes against free speech and the free exchange of ideas, limiting the ability of academics...
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Boycott is betrayal of our values 2
A boycott to relieve the oppression of Palestinians is sound in principle, but British academics hardly occupy sufficiently high moral ground to encourage sanctions against anyone. The crashing sound...
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Boycott is betrayal of our values 3
Steven Weinberg's rant against the Natfhe boycott of Israeli academics (Opinion, May 26) is no more convincing than the Federation of Unions of Palestinian University Professors and Employees'...
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Boycott is betrayal of our values 4
You published two ill-informed articles to illustrate opposing views on the boycott of Israeli academia. Steven Weinberg denies that Arabs are the victims of discriminatory educational practices in...
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Appalled by AUT on Ellis
I was appalled by Leeds University's craven capitulation to the vociferous and increasingly sanctimonious attackers of Frank Ellis and his views, but I am equally appalled by Gavin Reid's intemperate...
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Where will money go?
If senior managers are deducting pay from lecturers taking industrial action, what will happen to the money they have "saved"? Returning it to the Higher Education Funding Council for England is...
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Quality inside and out 1
We at Evidence strongly agree with Andrew Oswald that the quality of articles withinjournals is a critical factor in the use of citations ("Journals study raps snobbery", May 19). For that reason,...