Brussels, 11 May 2006 An international conference on the theme of 'communicating objects' and new mobile services will take place in Brussels on 2 June. The one-day event aims at bringing together a...
Brussels, 11 May 2006 The European Commission's Information Society and Media Commission has published a call for tenders for the move towards a European e-infrastructure for e-science digital...
Paris, 11 May 2006 During a ceremony held in Toulouse on 11 May 2006, ESA officially awarded EADS Astrium the contract to develop and build the Gaia satellite. The goal of this space mission,...
Universities to dock pay of lecturers who boycott exam duties University vice-chancellors are to cut the pay of lecturers who refuse to set, invigilate or mark students’ exams and coursework. The...
" Academics have got to get real. Space costs a lot of money ." - Head of estates at Glamorgan University, The Times Higher , May 5 University of Poppleton From: The Head of Space Management I am...
Seldom has the appointment of an Education Secretary been welcomed with such enthusiasm by the higher education community as Alan Johnson's last week. Whatever the view of the fees legislation that...
Your report "Union fears rift on local deals" (May 5) highlights the danger that employers will seek to use a combination of punitive deductions sticks and local pay deal carrots to get staff to...
The article on local deals causing a rift between unions says that "the employers and unions finally agreed to meet for the first formal pay talks next Monday". The first talks, of course, took place...
According to "Where are top union hot spots?" (May 5), Association of University Teachers' membership at Warwick University stands at 230, representing a union density of per cent. In fact, Warwick...
We read with interest the article that suggested growing rifts within and between the various interest groupings in Universities UK ("Rifts threaten unified voice", April 28). But the article tells...
One might have thought that a university's assistant director of estates who detected dust on academics' bookshelves would have considered how effective she was in managing the university's cleaning...
Contrary to the assertion that little research has been carried out on open-plan offices, there is a body of literature showing that in a variety of organisations they are seen to enhance individual...
You report that there are plans to phase out or replace some private studies with open-plan offices. Unfortunately, building layouts do not alter social reality. The Dr Piercemuller factor will still...
The local elections once again confirmed the growing local presence of the British National Party. Having spent the past year interviewing BNP activists, local and regional organisers, and national...
The advice given to those want-ing to write a bestseller (May 5) to "avoid titles with three nouns such as Teaching Maths to Pupils with Special Needs in Secondary Schools , which appeal only to...