Weblogs help to encourage debate outside lectures. Shola Adenekan reports US colleges, students and lecturers are embracing the next big thing in internet technology. Blogs, the journal-like websites...
If you want alumni to give your institution cash, then you have to be prepared to put in the groundwork and make friends with them first, says Harriet Swain Remember that business studies student you...
Name: Iain Coleman Age: 52 Job: Principal lecturer in biomedical science/teaching fellow, School of Applied Sciences, Wolverhampton University. Salary: Principal lecturer scale (up to £43,037)...
Tom Devine, director of Aberdeen University's pioneering Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies, has welcomed the "stunning news" that the centre has won £1.25 million from the Arts and Humanities...
Trade unions are to launch a campaign to improve the conditions of hourly paid workers in old universities, where they make up about half of all teaching staff. The Association of University Teachers...
Patricia McManus has been an hourly paid lecturer in the English department at Sussex University for seven years. She is part of an associate tutors' campaign group organised by the Association of...
Research and Development expenditure R&D intensity, R&D expenditure as% of GDP R&D expenditure R&D expenditure by business sector, as% of total 1998 2000 2003 2003 (...
Brussels, 24 Feb 2005 The European Commission is funding an initiative aimed at minimising the obstacles for young biotechnology firms that wish to participate in the EU's research framework...
Brussels, 24 Feb 2005 The European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) introduced in June 2004 has greatly facilitated access to medical assistance for the millions of Europeans travelling to other EU...
Brussels, 24 Feb 2005 An EU project is bringing science and engineering together in an attempt to find new processes for dispersing nanoparticles in liquid forms such as body lotions and detergents....
Brussels, 24 Feb 2005 A Dutch-UK Eureka project has developed a nerve stimulator implant that helps drop foot sufferers walk more easily and faster. Foot drop sufferers are unable to bend their ankle...
Brussels, 24 Feb 2005 The UK's Sixth Framework Central Information Point (FP6UK) is hosting a workshop on eCulture in London on 16 March. The aim of the workshop is to provide opportunities to...
Brussels, 24 Feb 2005 An international conference, 'How to do ICT [information and communications technologies] business in China', organised by the Chinese Ministry of Information Industry and the...
Brussels, 24 Feb 2005 The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work has published a prior information notice of a call for tenders for research expertise related to the establishment of an...
Deadline: 15/04/2005