Gain by aiming high
Your leader column is right to point to the advantages of higher education-based teacher education, ("Help teachers aim higher", July 29). While employment-only routes can have a limited role,...
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Beyond words
Gary Day writes that we need "a language revolution ... that revives the particularity of personhood", that "it is hard to harm anyone if you have seen them as a real person, rather than as a...
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Poems from the academy
The Dream Songs, by John Berryman About that "me". After a lecture once came up a lady asking to see me. "Of course. When would you like to?" Well, now, she said. "Yes, but I have a lunch- con- "...
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A tale of two republics
Tocqueville's brilliant analysis of the US may be outdated but, says Hugh Brogan, the historian still has a lot to teach us about liberty and equality 200 years after his birth It cannot be denied...
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In a mere blink of time, pond life put the planet on ice
It took an algae just a geological instant to create a snowball Earth. Anna Fazackerley explores the first biogenic climate disaster Cyanobacterium does not sound particularly threatening. At its...
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Armed and dangerously provocative...
Is science the new art, asks Sian Ede, as she reveals how artists are taking inspiration from the lab to find new ways to explore the world Contemporary scientists often talk about "beauty" and "...
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Campus curiosities
In the peace of the library of St John's College, Oxford, is a reminder of more chaotic times. A rude cannon ball, some 20cm across, is on display. It was supposedly fired from a Parliamentarian...
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Buckle up, crash test in progress
John O'Leary hopes that legendary German efficiency matches its ambition to turn higher education on its head Imagine introducing simultaneously many of the main reforms that have reshaped UK higher...
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Commission to invest €1 billion into Research on Information and Communication Technologies
Brussels, 3 August 2005 The Commission is about to launch 6 new research projects in the field of Information and Communication Technologies with €1 billion in EU funding. This is the result of the...
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Proposed Council Decision a Cooperation Agreement with Ukraine on a Civil Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) (link)
Brussels, 03 Aug 2005 Proposal for a COUNCIL DECISION on the signing of the Cooperation Agreement on a Civil Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) between the European Community and its Member...
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MESSENGER project launches consultation on science, society and the media
Brussels, 03 Aug 2005 An EU funded project has launched a Europe-wide consultation with the aim of improving informed debate between scientists, journalists and civil society on science, and...
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The contribution of EU research to the fight against terrorism
Brussels, 03 Aug 2005 The European Commission has outlined how it is contributing to tackling terrorism through research, giving details of security projects that it is funding under its Preparatory...
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ESA takes delivery of first Galileo satellite
Brussels, 03 Aug 2005 The first Galileo system test bed satellite, GSTB-V2/A, has arrived at the European Space Agency (ESA) space research and technology centre in the Netherlands to undergo testing...
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Scottish universities receive 12 million euro research boost
Brussels, 03 Aug 2005 The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council (SHEFC) is to provide eight million GBP (11.6 million euro) to eight Scottish universities working within six research groups in...
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Nanoelectronics technologies 2020: a European strategic research agenda
Brussels, 03 Aug 2005 The European Nanoelectronics Initiative advisory council (ENIAC) is organising a workshop to take place on 16 September in Grenoble, France, entitled 'Nanoelectronics...