Brussels, 13 Oct 2005 The second international workshop on virtual reality and virtual environments organised by the INTUITION consortium, 'INTUITION 2005', will take place in Paris, France, from 24...
Brussels, 13 Oct 2005 Full text of Document 3575/05 1. Adoption of the Draft Agenda 2. Approval of the Draft Summary Conclusions of the 303rd meeting of 29 September 2005 - Doc. 1206/05 CREST 3....
Paris, 13 Oct 2005 Bat inspires space tech for airport security Metal detectors currently used for screening aircraft passengers could soon be supplanted by novel millimetre-wave cameras, able to...
Cambridge faces the end of one-to-one tutorials Cambridge may be forced to abandon its tradition of one-to-one tuition unless it can raise sufficient additional endowment funds to meet the cost,...
From: Mavis Willingborough. Deputy Head of Corporate Logistics (Timetabling Division), University of Poppleton To: All Academic Staff Following extensive consultations, it has been agreed that the...
The chances of a clear-headed decision on the merits of post-qualification admissions to higher education receded further this week, as politics intruded on an already fraught debate. Research on...
Red tape is an easy target, especially where funding councils are concerned. No system of allocating money has yet been devised that could not be simplified, and there are often good reasons for...
How welcome to see an editorial that celebrates the high salary benchmarks being set by the Association of Univer-sity Teachers' pay deals ("Magic of the market", October 7).JThe message to the 80...
A vice-chancellor in a post-92 university says his institution has a job evaluation scheme of "such stupefying complexity" that it ensures equal pay for work of equal value (Letters, October 7). He...
The vice-chancellor of the University of Central England is gratified and feels that the academic staff at Oxford University deserve to be the lowest paid in the country (Letters, October 7). I see...
The article "'Deplorable' pay inequity persists" (September 30) highlights that female academics are paid less than males. Other research has shown that they also have less academic success. An...
I must object to the headline "Right-to-die advocate keen to lead ethics discourse" and to the introduction of an article based on an interview with me (October 7). The description of me as a "right-...
Staff at the School of Oriental and African Studies are distressed about two senior subject-librarians (Sue Small and Fujiko Kobayashi) being made redundant and two others under threat. These...
As regards literary theory ("It's curtains for the gadfly of the piece", October 7), an important consideration should be its effect on the way literature is studied in schools, where many graduates...
As a part-time mature student, I completed an English literature degree this year at a university priding itself on its position at the cutting-edge of the critical theory scene. I felt uneasy about...