Brussels, 28 Apr 2006 German private, non-profit research organisations have collaborated to draft comments on the forthcoming Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), and in particular on the proposed...
Brussels, 28 Apr 2006 Information on this initiative can be found in the Platform website, www.buildingsplatform.org A few months after the deadline for transposition, the implementation of the EC...
Ex-professor jailed in US Jihad case Former Florida university professor Sami al-Arian was sentenced to four years and nine months in prison on Monday for aiding the Palestinian group Islamic Jihad....
Dancers have long braved pain and injury for the sake of their art, but a study by academics at the London College of Fashion could help to bring about a change. Helen Thomas , LCF research director...
Manchester University emerged as the big winner in the second round of Research Councils UK Fellowship Awards designed to nurture postgraduate talent. Manchester won 22 of the 400 fellowships...
The careers of promising young researchers could be blighted if the research assessment exercise is replaced with a metrics-based system for allocating university-wide research grants, a study...
Sussex University may be forced to make a humiliating U-turn on its controversial decision to axe chemistry, placing a question mark over the future of its vice-chancellor, The Times Higher can...
Cambridge University registrary Tim Mead is celebrating 500 years since the creation of the post. Tim Mead's post as registrary, far from being a misprint, has a unique definition in the Oxford...
* Avril Waterman-Pearson , professor of veterinary anaesthesia, has been appointed pro vice-chancellor at Bristol University. She is a fellow of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons and a...
Divisions in academia could lead to the loss of its negotiating power, Anna Fazackerley reports. The battle lines in UK academia are shifting, with the Campaigning for Mainstream Universities group...
An online petition condemning the lecturers' pay dispute for damaging students' academic interests may be inadvertently encouraging undergraduates to cheat. The website says that the boycott of exams...
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Keele University has compromised its academic standards with a "scandalous" decision to allow students to graduate without completing their final year, staff have claimed. The Times Higher reported...
AUT and Natfhe unmoved by lure of improved offer, reports Phil Baty. A commitment by employers to improve on their offer to staff of a 6 per cent pay rise over two years was not enough to entice the...
About a third of this summer's final-year exams may have to be cancelled at Sheffield University, it emerged this week, as the university became the first to concede that the industrial action over...