Take it back with flowers
In these commercially focused times, universities need events and communications people to smooth their diplomatic path. But it seems some are more adept than others. Spare a thought for the poor...
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Hefce panel raises eyebrows
After months of speculation about who will fill Sir Howard Newby's shoes as chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England, the panel making the recommendation has finally met....
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Dark horse with a hint of blue
The final three contenders for the Hefce top job are still widely believed to be Ivor Crewe, chief executive of Universities UK; David Eastwood, vice-chancellor of the University of East Anglia; and...
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Red tape has made comrades of us all
Christopher Read detects the stench of Soviet bureaucracy as new RAE criteria force academics to meet Five Year Plan-style targets It was in Leningrad in 1971 that I wrote my first personal...
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Oxford takes out a contract on campus life
Real interaction between student and lecturer will die when freshers are legally bound to study, says Frank Furedi We all know about defensive medicine. For a while now, some doctors have avoided...
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Meet your successor, Sven
The wounded outgoing England manager Sven-Göran Eriksson has warned his replacement to stay at home and lock the door when not on the pitch. A leading psychologist this week set out a more practical...
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Report by the Scientific and Technical Research Committee (CREST) on the Funding of Basic Research Through National Funding Agencies in the European Research Area: - Sampling the Diversity (link)
Brussels, 02 Feb 2006 Full text of Document 1201/06 Suite of documents 1201/06 Delegations will find attached a comparative analysis undertaken for CREST by Mr Koen VERLAECKT on the funding of basic...
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Commissioner Janez POTOCNIK European Commissioner for Science and Research, Opening remarks at International Symposium on Climate Change, Belgian Royal Academy of Sciences
Brussels, 2 February 2006 Ladies and Gentlemen, It is a great pleasure for me to open this Symposium on climate change. The timing for this Symposium is excellent: awareness of our changing climate...
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CoR Swedish delegation chief Kaliff backs petition urging Member States to reverse competitiveness budget cuts
Brussels, 31 January 2006 Roger Kaliff, head of the Swedish delegation in the Committee of the Regions, is one of the leading signatories of a petition urging the Austrian Presidency and 24 other...
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How to find the orbital needle in the celestial haystack
Paris, 02 Feb 2006 Today experts from across the world meet at ESA to discuss how to best calculate spacecraft orbits. Even though the space age is now 49 years old, determining the optimal...
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Agenda of the Research Working Party, 2 February 2006
Brussels, 02 Feb 2006 Full text of Document 398/06 1. (poss) Rules of participation: - continuation of examination of proposal doc. 5057/06 RECH 1 CODEC 4 2. Specific Programme "Cooperation": -...
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Today's news
Bigger budget shows pay rise possible, lecturers say Lecturers said yesterday that the announcement of £6.5 billion government funding for universities next year meant there was enough money to meet...
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Laurie Taylor Column
New websites give students a chance to rate their professors ( www.ratemyprofessors.com ) and professors to rate their students (rateyourstudents.blogspot.com ) - The Times Higher, January www....
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Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Normally atop the campus flagpole outside my windows, the Stars and Stripes struggle against the unstable weather. But Tufts University takes seriously its vocation for educating young Americans in...