Lean, mean, profitable machine
Trouble at MGRover disguises a thriving sector that researchers can fine-tune, says David Mullins Despite the difficulties of MG Rover, the UK automotive sector is busy creating high-value products...
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Warm glow of a chore well done
Marking scripts on a fine summer's day may not seem too unpleasant a task but, says Susan Bassnett, you do it in the garden at your peril One of the most demanding tasks for an academic is not...
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Lone wolves need not apply
It takes an excellent communicator to fuse together researchers from several different institutions and backgrounds but, as Harriet Swain discovers, there's no shame in bringing in some professional...
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Clocking on and off? I'd vote for that
Name: Philip Cowley Age: 35 Job: Reader in parliamentary government, Nottingham University Salary: Not enough, but more than my parents earned or expected me to earn. Association of University...
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Ask the panel
Worried about your employment, maternity, pension rights? Send your questions to The Times Higher advice panel. As a result of the new European Union employment regulations, my university has changed...
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South slow to follow Scots on contracts
Vice-chancellors in England and Wales are making "appallingly inadequate" progress towards moving the tens of thousands of academics on fixed-term contracts to permanent jobs, the Association of...
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Who's in who's out?
LEEDS Stephen Mobbs, above, is the new director of the Natural Environment Research Council's Centres for Atmospheric Science. Professor Mobbs, who founded Leeds University's Environment Centre in...
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Aberdeen in global hunt for 'tomorrow's thinkers'
Aberdeen University this week launched a £2.25 million investment programme to recruit 50 PhD students as part of its ambitious Sixth Century Campaign. Aberdeen is two years into a £9 million...
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On the move...
The Courtauld Institute of Art has appointed Caroline Campbell curator of paintings at the institute’s art gallery in Somerset House. She was assistant curator of Renaissance paintings at the...
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Bodies that belong to Commission's advisory group on food chain and animal and plant health (OJ link)
Brussels, 21 April 2005 List of members of the advisory group on the food chain and animal and plant health (OJ C97/2 21.4.2005). Text In accordance with Article 3(3) of Commission Decision 2004/613/...
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Experts support the creation of a European Research Council
Brussels, 21 April 2005 An expert group set up by the European Commission to examine the likely impact of a European Research Council has found that a pan-European mechanism funding frontier research...
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Galileo - Maroc (Other points approved - Extract from: Provisional Version, Transport Council of 21 April - in French)
Brussels, 21 Apr 2005 Le Conseil a adopté une décision autorisant la Commission à engager des négociations avec le Maroc afin de préparer un...
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EIROforum pledges its support for achieving Lisbon and the ERA
Brussels, 21 Apr 2005 EIROforum, the group representing seven of Europe's largest intergovernmental research organisations, has published a policy paper outlining the practical steps it can take to...
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Commission calls for university reform to help deliver Lisbon goals
Brussels, 21 Apr 2005 The European Commission has adopted a communication calling on Member States to introduce reforms that will allow Europe's universities to better contribute to the EU goal of...
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Parliament committee backs call for one billion euro security research budget
Brussels, 21 Apr 2005 The European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee has adopted a report by Polish MEP Bogdan Klich on security research, which calls for a minimum annual budget of one billion...