Why wait till 2009?
A Tory government would get much-needed cash to universities fast, insists Chris Grayling The attacks on Conservative higher education policy in last week's issue were hardly surprising given the...
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Audit vampire has bled us dry
Society suffers when academics' time is measured in pounds and pence, laments Ian Rotherham I hung up the phone after turning down a request to give advice to the regional environment forum. I wanted...
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Don't have a cow over this cattle market
Stay calm and remember that a bad review can't kill you, says Susan Bassnett I've noticed something about CVs lately: many people are starting to flag up publications that they intend to submit for...
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A good social life helps students to stay the course
Peer support is vital to prevent dropouts, explain Alastair Forbes and Eugenia Wickens Reports in last week's Times Higher of concerns that widening participation will lead to greater dropout rates...
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Nip double trouble in the bud
Plagiarism can be hard to prove, so why waste time on punishment when better assessment methods can stop copycats in their tracks? Harriet Swain investigates You have just marked a great essay -...
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Teacher audit
* Name: Tracy Harwood * Age: 39 * Job: Senior lecturer in marketing/ teacher fellow (institutional and national), faculty of business and law, De Montfort University, Leicester. * Salary: £34,2 *...
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Leicester cuts 135 jobs
Leicester University will lose 135 jobs as part of a restructuring exercise designed to improve its performance in the next research assessment exercise. Forty-five of the jobs will be lost in...
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King's seeks new recruits as bidding war with UCL hots up
King's College London is advertising 63 posts in The Times Higher this week in the wake of a review of its research profile. Many of the jobs are in chemical biology and bioinformatics and will, it...
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Who's in who's out?
STIRLING Gerard Hastings, a leading researcher on tobacco industry controls, has joined the university under a joint initiative with the Open University to form the Institute of Social Marketing....
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Today's news
Students go for Lib Dems Students will shun Labour in favour of the Liberal Democrats at the next election, according to a poll published today. Daily Express, ߣߣƵ Supplement Visa...
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Annex to the Report on the Statistics on Animals Used for Experiments in the EU in the Year 2002 (link)
Brussels, Jan 2005 Full text of Document 5633/05 Addendum 01 Suite of documents 5633/05 Annex to the: Report on the Statistics on the Number of Animals used for Experimental and other Scientific...
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Research Commissioner Janez POTOCNIK: Ethical issues should be discussed in an open and friendly spirit of tolerance, Opening session of the conference “Research Ethics Committees in Europe: facing th
Brussels, January 2004 Opening session of the conference “Research Ethics Committees in Europe: facing the future together” Brussels, January 2004 Dear Members of the European Parliament, Ladies and...
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Research throws doubt on therapeutic value of existing stem cell lines
Brussels, Jan 2005 The majority of existing embryonic stem cell lines may be worthless for therapeutic purposes according to new research carried out by scientists in the US. As reported in the...
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SMART-1 captures close-range images of the Moon
Brussels, Jan 2005 The SMART-1 satellite has sent back its first close-range images of the Moon. The pictures were taken from an altitude of between 1,000 and 5,000 kilometres above the lunar surface...
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Human Frontier Science Program calls for project proposals
Brussels, Jan 2005 The Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP), of which the European Union is a member, is calling for research proposals in the field of complex mechanisms of living organisms. The...