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...
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...
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...
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": -...
Deadline: 17/03/2006
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...
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....
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...
Government grant letters are not designed to be models of peerless prose bursting with vision and optimism. But this week's missive to the Higher Education Funding Council for England (which was so...
It will come as no surprise to academics (or graduates) that degree standards vary within as well as between universities. Institutions must take seriously the Quality Assurance Agency's examples of...
Although it is true that many "student leaders at Russell Group universities have threatened to boycott the national student satisfaction survey" ("Student threat to boycott survey", January ), King'...
Like Frank Furedi ("In pursuit of the happy bunnies", January ), I also used to think that the national student satisfaction survey was a waste of time and money. Downloading the data from the...
Since when did good learning take place by ignoring the points of view, needs and wishes of the learners? By dismissing student surveys as mere concern for image, Frank Furedi supports the...
As chair of the Council of the Academy of (Learned Societies for the) Social Sciences, I welcome the Economic and Social Research Council's report that was covered in a shabby and shoddy way in The...
Rather than bemoaning the demise of quantitative analysis in the social sciences ("Time to crunch some numbers", January ), it might be more useful to try to understand why this might have happened....