Brussels, 24 Feb 2006 Full text of Document 791/06 1. Implementation of the re-launched Lisbon Strategy: discussion of draft Key Issues Paper to the Competitiveness Council ­ examination of...
Brussels, 24 Feb 2006 Full text of Document 805/06 1. Adoption of the agenda 2. Approval of Summary of Conclusions of the previous meeting (COST 330/05) I Information items 3. Presentations of the...
Luxembourg, 24 February 2006 Court notice for the OJ Appeal brought on 22 December 2005 by the Republic of Austria against the judgment delivered on 5 October 2005 by the Court of First Instance of...
Opposing sides in animal testing row pledge to step up action Protesters for and against animal testing have predicted an escalating conflict after the two sides clashed during weekend demonstrations...
The textbook that changed my life I encountered the term "structured programming" during my first industrial job in the late 1970s. An enlightened academically minded colleague gave a course on it...
With his biographies and reference works, Michael Kennedy is striving to expand classical music's audience, discovers Christopher Wood The public doesn't deserve Michael Kennedy. For more than 60...
A surge in the number of professors and senior staff recruited by universities threatens to swallow what extra cash there is to meet pay demands across the board. New figures from the Higher...
It is a delicate diplomatic dilemma - how to ensure that Bill Rammell and Boris Johnson do not end up in the same room at the same time wooing the same Chinese higher education dignitaries. With all...
Edinburgh's new vice-principal of development will crank up its fundraising efforts to support bursaries The new vice-principal of development at Edinburgh University, Young Dawkins III, says the...
* Oxford University has appointed: Manfred Engel , currently professor of new German literature at Saarland University in Germany, Taylor professor of the German language; John Hawthorne , professor...
A new framework aims to establish UK-wide criteria and ensure that academics are trained to meet them. Jessica Shepherd reports UK academics have created the world's first guide to the standards of...
Scotland's men have long had a reputation for violence, but new research reveals just how fiery its women could be. A St Andrews University historian has discovered that Scottish women in previous...
Anne Kerr typifies the kind of ambitious and determined woman beginning to make her mark in higher education. At the age of just 36 and only 12 years since starting out as a research fellow at...
Lawrence Summers, the president of Harvard University, quit this week, days before academics were to consider a second vote of no confidence in his leadership. Derek Bok, president of Harvard from...
WINNERS AND LOSERS Who's prospered and who's been penalised in Hefce's £6bn 2006-07 teaching and research grants? PLUS Laurie Taylor interviews the deeply disillusioned cultural studies guru Stuart...