Midnight feasting on Heidegger
Name: Wayne Martin Age: 41 Job: Reader in philosophy, Essex University. Salary: More than I ever expected to make doing philosophy, but I had pretty low expectations. Background: BA, Clare College,...
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Ask the panel
Worried about your employment, maternity, pension rights? Send your questions to The Times Higher advice panel. I was appointed teaching fellow earlier this year at the top of the 'other related'...
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Lectures are cut to learn how to teach
New lecturers will have their teaching load halved to allow them to learn how to teach under an innovative scheme launched by De Montfort University. Three fellowships are funded through De Montfort'...
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Who got that job?
Selina Kitney Quality enhancement officer, Bath University Advertised in The Times Higher, April 8 2005. Universities stand or fall on the quality of their teaching, yet the staff who enforce these...
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Housing boom brings jobs
New jobs are in the pipeline at Northampton University thanks to the Government's house-building plans. The institution, which is advertising in this week's Times Higher , hopes to benefit from plans...
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Islamic institute in status row
The Russian Islamic University in Kazan, capital of Tatarstan, is likely to be secularised, its deputy rector, Suleyman Zaripov, revealed last week. Since it was set up in 1998 to train Muslim...
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Questions and answers on risk assessment of nanotechnology products
Brussels, 20 October 2005 1) What are nanotechnologies? Nanotechnologies involve the controlled production at molecular level of new materials, structures and devices, which have at least one...
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State aid: Commission approves UK’s NESTA Invention and Innovation Programme supporting new innovative firms
Brussels, 20 October 2005 The European Commission has approved under EC Treaty state aid rules a €35.3 million risk capital fund that supports newly created innovative micro and small-sized...
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Four Commission decisions relating to avian influenza (OJ links)
Brussels, 20 October 2005 Commission Decision of 17 October 2005 laying down additional requirements for the surveillance of avian influenza in wild birds (notified under document number C(2005) 3877...
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Council Research Working Party: agenda (FP7) - 24 October
Brussels, 20 October 2005 Full text of Document 3686/05 1. Seventh Framework Programme continuation of the examination of Presidency text doc. 8087/05 RECH 80 ATO 45 COMPET 68 CODEC 266 2. A.O.B. [...
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Erasmus Networks now cover nine tenths of Europe’s universities
Brussels, 20 October 2005 In 2005, the number of European Universities taking part in the ERASMUS University Cooperation scheme rose to an impressive 87% of all European universities, across 31...
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"Space Phantom" Comes In From the Cold: After Monitoring Radiation Levels Outside the Space Station for a Year and a Half, the Human Shaped Matroshka Experiment Device Will Record Exposure Data Inside
Paris, 20 Oct 2005 A phantom, which was outside the International Space Station (ISS) for a year and a half, is now inside with the ISS crew. However this is no ghost story but a serious set of...
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Museum of Modern Art Shows Off Air-Cooled Desert Tent Designed Using Concepts Developed in Space
Paris, 20 Oct 2005 An innovative tent, developed with the use of space concepts, is now on display at the 'SAFE: Design On Risk' exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. Designed for...
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Laurie Taylor Column
Vice-chancellors are ignoring evidence of campus extremism - report from the Social Affairs Unit . The Times Higher, October 14 Welcome to the Extremism Committee. Apologies for Absence. Mrs Dilworth...
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Leader: Quality is key to success abroad
Less than a year ago, the main concern about overseas students for UK universities was whether they could fit them all in. The British Council was predicting that numbers would triple in 15 years,...