United we stand but divided we negotiate
Unions are keen to shake up the skewed pay system, but they diverge on strategy, says Christina McAnea As the academic unions start the process for industrial action over pay, Unison will be sending...
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Go to aisle 4 to pick up your 2:1
Treating students as customers has wider implications than realists may have realised, warns Bob Brecher Shock horror! Students unprepared for university, claim admissions tutors! They expect "to be...
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Don't strike fear into their hearts
The viva is a key opportunity for a PhD candidate to defend a thesis, but it should also be viewed as a learning experience for all and not a chore or an opportunity to belittle the student, writes...
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Avoiding cold water with drip, drip
Name : Deirdre Burke Age : 51 Background : I started as a lecturer in religious studies in West Midlands College, a small teacher training college that merged with Wolverhampton Polytechnic, where I...
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Ask the panel
Worried about your employment, maternity, pension rights? Send your questions to The Times Higher advice panel. I have just accepted my first research contract and, in time, would like to obtain a...
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Hunt for outsiders to pep up thinking
Leeds Metropolitan University is looking for academic movers and shakers as part of a major recruitment drive that includes appointing an unspecified number of "running stream professors". Running...
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Who's in, who's out?
ABERTAY DUNDEE Steve Olivier - the new head of the School of Social and Health Sciences and professor of sport and exercise science - sees potential for imaginative research into the health of the...
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Lecturers donate £10,000 each year in unpaid work
Lecturers are working an average of nine hours a week in unpaid overtime, equivalent to a £10,000 annual gift to employers, according to the Trades Union Congress. TUC research indicates that...
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Avian influenza: further Commission decision on protective measures (OJ link)
Brussels, 23 February 2006 Commission Decision of 22 February 2006 concerning certain protection measures in relation to highly pathogenic avian influenza in poultry in the Community (notified under...
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Draft Summary Conclusions of the 306th Meeting of the Scientific and Technical Research Committee (CREST) Held in Vienna (Austria) on 26 January 2006 (link)
Brussels, 23 Feb 2006 Full text of Document 1202/06 Suite of documents 1202/06 The meeting was chaired by Mr Richard ESCRITT (European Commission, DG Research, Director). 1. ADOPTION OF THE DRAFT...
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Agenda of the Research and Joint Research/Atomic Questions Working Party, 23 February 2006
Brussels, 23 Feb 2006 Full text of Document 749/06 Morning 1. Specific programme "Euratom": - preparation of Coreper on the basis of Presidency compromise text doc. 134/05 RECH 181 ATO 85 COMPET 197...
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Commissioner Stavros Dimas: Closing Speech at the Solar Solidarity Exhibition Solar Solidarity Exhibition
Brussels, 22 February 2006 Ladies and Gentlemen, It is a pleasure to have the opportunity to speak to you today at this interesting and important exhibition, which is now coming to an end. The...
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Chimpanzees display yet more sophisticated tool use
Brussels, 23 Feb 2006 Researchers from the Max Planck institute in Germany and Cambridge University in the UK have filmed chimpanzees (pan troglodytes) employing the most sophisticated tool use yet...
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New guidelines for instigators of cooperative networks
Brussels, 23 Feb 2006 The EU funded Veritas project has produced a book guidelines on 'how to initiate cooperative networks', which are available free of charge. The guidelines are aimed in...
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Today's news
20% pay claim will hurt students, universities say The "unreasonably high" pay claim by lecturers will leave less money for student facilities and bursaries, university employers said today. As the...