Generation games 1
"Recruiting drive may gobble up pay cash" (February 24) shows that academic recruitment is skewed towards the senior grades to boost institutions' showing in the research assessment exercise. But the...
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Feminism isn't ready to be swept under the carpet
To mark International Women's Day, Ann Oakley explores the changing face of gender studies and why women still wear the pinny in most houses It is easy to forget that in the 1960s we lacked a...
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Where 'hello, baby' doesn't mean 'bye bye tenure'
The US boasts some unlikely champions of family-friendly policies, say Stephen Phillips and Mandy Garner Last week, Lawrence Summers resigned as Harvard University president days before a second vote...
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Deeply disillusioned but not without hope
Stuart Hall says the points of reference that organised his political world are gone. Still, Laurie Taylor finds that the cultural theorist has not lost his fire When people heard I'd be meeting...
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Imparting wisdom via a wet sponge
If bird flu broke out, would face-to-face teaching be viable? Timothy Hamlett recalls sticky times in a Sars-ridden city Are you wondering what an epidemic of bird flu in a major city might look like...
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Campus curiosities 19 Goldsmiths' bathhouse
Laurie Grove baths in New Cross was built as part of a Victorian municipal drive to civilise the "great unwashed" of industrial south London. Now the main pool is filled with art students. The baths...
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Cracking the identity code with a humble fried egg
Our monthly guide to some of the conferences taking place around the world Harriet Swain asks the experts what ingredients make up 'Britishness' and gets some mouthwatering answers When Chancellor...
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Conference watch
* "Shopping is becoming more than just leisure, it is becoming cultural," says Jessica Bush of Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College. She is giving a paper at the Commerce and Fashion 1500-...
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Instant expert
Bradford Film Festival Music Conference. National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford, West Yorkshire. March 4-5. Full conference: £30.00 Students: £20.00 Per session: £12.00 What's...
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Verification reports on radiation protection at Hungary's Paks nuclear plant (links)
Brussels, 1 March 2006 Nuclear issues - Radiation Protection Verification reports under the terms of Article 35 of the Euratom Treaty - Paks, Hungary, 8 to 12 November 2004 Main Findings (202 KB)...
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French poultry vaccination campaign against H5N1 flu
Brussels, 01 Mar 2006 France, the world's fourth largest exporter of poultry, has moved to vaccinate its poultry stocks to prevent the H5N1 'bird-flu' virus spreading from the confirmed cases in the...
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STOA report calls for concrete steps to optimise the efficiency of research
Brussels, 01 Mar 2006 A report prepared at the request of the European Parliament's scientific technology options assessment (STOA) unit has called for concrete steps to be taken to improve the...
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New research shows how superbug spreads
Brussels, 01 Mar 2006 Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria, the most lethal of the 'superbugs', uses amoebae to spread, according to researchers from the University of Bath in...
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EU project makes tools to protect the complex inter-dependencies connecting key information-based infrastructures in network industries
Brussels, 01 Mar 2006 The Commission has launched a new seven million euro Integrated Project which aims to shed light on the increasingly complex interconnections between key information-based...
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MICRON Robots prove successful in medical, micro-assembly and atomic force experiments
Brussels, 01 Mar 2006 The MICRON (Miniaturised Co-operative Robots advancing towards the Nano range) project, funded under the information society technologies (IST) priority of the Sixth Framework...