Academic pay outpaced
Average graduate starting salaries are rising quicker than the pay of full-time academics, figures out this week reveal. The going rate for a newly recruited graduate rose to nearly £22,500 on...
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Privy Council lets go
Universities will no longer need to involve the Privy Council on all matters of governance, the Government confirmed this week. The Department for Education and Skills said institutions would no...
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MPs blur the divide
MPs on the House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee have said they will no longer scrutinise research councils on an individual basis, but via cross-cutting themes. Knowledge transfer...
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Catch them young
Hull College this week launched an initiative to help 15 to 18-year-olds find out about degree courses in the creative arts. The Creative Partners 4 Progression scheme is supported by two government-...
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'Craftsmanship' is laid low by quick-fix fever
The Government is showing signs of ADHD, flitting from one policy to the next, says Richard Sennett. Mandy Garner asks him why society has become hooked on short-term gain Just after Richard Sennett...
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When the torture becomes humdrum
We have become accustomed to others' suffering in the War on Terror, says Joanna Bourke Ameen Sa'eed Al-Sheikh was arrested on October 7 2003 and taken to the Baghdad Correctional Facility in Abu...
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£250K to wage war on poverty
Economist and Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz is heading Manchester's new poverty institute - on a salary that has raised eyebrows, says Michael North Unlike his fellow academics on the podium, Nobel...
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Haven of hope in a high-rise hell
Taking a cue from its location at the heart of one of the UK's most deprived housing estates, Roehampton University is making social justice a core element in its approach to learning. Mandy Garner...
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Take a trip to ease your final journey
Its creator has lived to be 100 taking it, Aldous Huxley took it on his deathbed and the CIA considered using it as a weapon of torture. Susan Blackmore on the psychedelic possibilities of LSD Albert...
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Questions and Answers on Human Tissues and Cells
Brussels, 8 February 2006 Q: What power does the European Commission have to regulate tissues and cells? The Amsterdam Treaty (Article 152) gave the EU the mandate to pass laws on the quality and...
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Antartic krill sink enough carbon dioxide to neutralise 35 million cars
Brussels, 08 Feb 2006 Researchers from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and the University of Hull have found an unlikely new carbon 'sink' in the Southern Ocean. Antarctic krill, the tiny shrimp-...
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New president pledges to put science back at the top of CNRS agenda
Brussels, 08 Feb 2006 The newly appointed president of the French national centre for scientific research (CNRS), Catherine Bréchignac, has pledged to put science back at the top of the...
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Industry moves to prevent accidents at work
Brussels, 08 Feb 2006 European industrial accidents cause an injury every eight seconds, and a death every two hours. These alarming statistics were called 'astonishing and unacceptable', by Janez...
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EU project identifies action areas for advancing public sector innovation
Brussels, 08 Feb 2006 'Innovation must be a human phenomenon, not an activity restricted to the private sector,' states a report on innovation in the public sector produced by Publin, a project...
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Agenda of the Research Working Party, 9 February 2006
Brussels, 08 Feb 2006 Full text of Document 516/06 1. Specific Programme "Cooperation": ­ second reading of themes 8, 4, 9 & 10 ("Socio-economic", "Nanosciences", "Space", "Security...