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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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'...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
I have carried out a very similar study to Andrew Oswald's but I drew very different conclusions from my results. I studied the citation history of more than 600 papers published in 1990 in six...