Can't make a job Offa yet
Back in the real world, finding someone to be the Office for Fair Access bogeyman is proving harder than anticipated. Those involved in the recruitment process for the director tactfully describe it...
Search
-
-
Nation of old chestnuts
Oxford University Press defied cynics by getting all 60 volumes of its Dictionary of National Biography out on schedule last week - a launch date set optimistically in 1992. Speaking at last week's...
-
My revolting past: pipes, tweed and velveteen jeans
In the late 1960s, Peter Hennessy established his political views at Cambridge but was on neither side of the Senate House occupation. What did you do during the Senate House occupation?" is a...
-
Why I... think women are being exploited by the university system
It is no surprise that recent research by the Association of University Teachers has found that women trying to establish a career as academics are more likely than men to find themselves used as...
-
No escaping the F-word
Finance is tougher than ever for students, so we must offer more aid and advice, says Deian Hopkin. As the dust settles over the Higher Education Bill debate, the focus of attention in higher...
-
Past relationships to rekindle
UCL is building an active alumni community for many more reasons than fundraising, writes Malcolm Grant. There is every reason why the UK needs to aspire to match the share of individual donations...
-
Today's news
Parents get advice on how to beat the system The Economist magazine has given middle-class parents a blueprint on how to get their children into the best universities in Blair's Britain. The magazine...
-
Galileo (Extract from: Provisional Version, Transport Council, 7 October)
Brussels, 07 Oct 2004 Overall state of play The Council was informed by Vice President of the Commission Loyola de Palacio on current developments concerning the European Global Navigation Satellite...
-
National Academy of Sciences Asks U.S. Delegation Oppose Proposed Cloning Research Ban at the UN
Washington, 07 Oct 2004 In a letter to Secretary of State Colin Powell, National Academy of Sciences President Bruce Alberts asked the U.S. delegation to the United Nations to vote against a proposed...
-
France set to import embryonic stem cells
Brussels, 07 Oct 2004 Presenting new national measures regulating stem cell research, Research Minister François d'Aubert and Health Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy announced that France is to allow...
-
Agenda of the Research Working Party, 11 October
Brussels, 07 Oct 2004 Full text of Document 3590/04 1. Commission communication "Science and technology, the key to Europe's future - Guidelines for future European Union policy to support research...
-
Planning and managing events in the fields of research and technological development
Brussels, 07 Oct 2004 The Commission's Research DG has published a call for tenders for companies interested in planning and managing events in the fields of research and technological development....
-
Conference on European Research Council (ERC)
Brussels, 07 Oct 2004 UNESCO is hosting a conference on the European Research Council (ERC) in Paris, France, on 25 and 26 October. Organised by the Initiative for Science in Europe (ISE), the...
-
Laurie Taylor Column
Birmingham University calls in brand image consultants Wolf Olins after an internal marketing report finds that the university is regarded as "dull and conservative". The Times Higher, October 1...
-
Leader: Fees-free Scots show up the rest
Ever since universities in England were promised top-up fees, those in other parts of the UK have been lobbying politicians for a settlement that will allow them to compete on a reasonably level...