Signal imperative to put funding back on track
Standards can only be raised if more cash is found to pay academics a decent wage, argues Claus Moser The issue of standards always hovers over us. Expansion remains the Government's top priority and...
Standards can only be raised if more cash is found to pay academics a decent wage, argues Claus Moser The issue of standards always hovers over us. Expansion remains the Government's top priority and...
The image of the Lib Dems as champions of the underdog belies their true voter base: the middle-class academic I think I will have to batten down the hatches this month. Lots of my university friends...
After extensive (and expensive) market research, Sheffield University has unveiled a new logo. But despite vice-chancellor Bob Boucher's claim that this will give the institution a "new identity",...
Inevitably, wavering Labour backbenchers were given whispered assurances, nudges and winks last year as former Education and Higher Education ministers Charles Clarke and Alan Johnson attempted to...
If academics who study popular culture feel bound to emphasise their work's serious pretensions by focusing only on the avant garde, then Alan Moore, head of music and sound recording at Surrey...
Tino Sehgal's installation, This Objective of That Object , is entered via a small vestibule linking two large, white, echoing rooms at London's Institute of Contemporary Art. The silence is broken...
Bullshit is one of the most salient features of our culture. Every day we are confronted by politicians, pundits and others who talk from a position of partial or total ignorance. They engage in...
Lighten the paperwork burden, urges Patricia Hodgson. Freedom will give Britain the edge Managing a large university must be one of the most demanding executive tasks in the UK. It requires the...
We now have journals of negative results, but will Bruce Charlton's dream turn into a monster? If it is every columnist's dream to make a difference "out there in the real world", then I have just...
Revised COST Budget Allocation by Domain for 2005 - Provisional Budget for 2006 (link) Brussels, 17 Feb 2005 Full text of Document 217/05 Suite of documents 217/05 Subject: - Revised budget...
Brussels, 17 February 2005 At the ‘Winning through co-operation: sharing the benefits of space’ conference in Brussels to day, over 40 nations and around 20 international...
Enterprise Commissioner Günter Verheugen: The Importance of Space, International Space Conference (link) Brussels, 17 February 2005 I am delighted to welcome you here in Brussels at this...
Bruxelles, le 17 février 2005 Introduction Laissez-moi tout d’abord vous dire combien je me félicite de cette semaine sur « La Terre et l’Espace » organisée à Bruxelles, qui traduit...
Brussels, 17 Feb 2005 The Asian tsunami of 26 December 2004 produced an unprecedented response from satellite monitoring agencies around the globe keen to support the relief effort, and in doing so,...
Brussels, 17 Feb 2005 While EU governments are making funding available for nanotechnology research, major pharmaceutical companies are investing very little money or human resources in this field,...