Amid the drive to widen participation and increase the number of young people receiving a university education, the small matter of actually teaching them deserves more attention. There has been a...
Geoffrey Copland says employers have moved towards a fair pay deal for staff, but Sally Hunt thinks they have done just the opposite and have engaged in mudslinging to obscure the real issues...
Geoffrey Copland says employers have moved towards a fair pay deal for staff, but Sally Hunt thinks they have done just the opposite and have engaged in mudslinging to obscure the real issues In last...
The relationship between a PhD student and their supervisor can be a tricky one. Susan Bassnett has a recipe for success. Sooner or later, most academics find themselves examining a doctoral thesis....
Aston and Central England universities, Imperial College London and Templeton College, Oxford, are all battling it out to attract top business academics. Pat Leon reports. University business schools...
Susan Dyke, 36 Job advertised, THES, January 10 BRUNEL UNIVERSITY, WEST LONDON Student Data Officer (Internal) £21,125 - £,339 pa plus London weighting of £1,638 pa Brunel University created the post...
A former No10 spokes-man shows how professional experience can be invaluable in launching a masters course. Chris Bunting writes. Weeks spent sitting in the public galleries of the Hutton inquiry...
Working from home can be fruitful, but watch out for the landlord catching you in your pants, says Mark Griffiths. Like many of my colleagues, I try to work at least one day a week from home....
Mature students are mounting a legal challenge to the government policy of targeting the under-30s for university expansion. The Mature Students' Union confirmed this week that it had instructed...
A team of British scientists has chipped away at one of the bedrock theories of geology to find a new origin for the very ground beneath our feet. It is widely believed that the continental land...
Oxford University is part of a US-led international coalition to strengthen archaeological and environmental teaching and research at Iraq's universities after years of sanctions, neglect and...
Admissions tutors favour Baccalaureate over A level A survey conducted by the International Baccalaureate Organisation shows that 57 per cent of university admission tutors thought that International...
Bruxelles, le 9 octobre 2003 Mesdames et messieurs, C'est avec un grand plaisir que je me joins à vous pour l'ouverture de la manifestation des Parcs Scientifiques wallons. Parce qu'ils constituent...
Strasbourg, 09 Oct 2003 Guido BODRATO (EPP-ED, I) Report on European space policy - Green Paper (2003/2092(INI)) Doc.: A5-0294/2003 [may not be available yet] Procedure: Own-initiative Debate: 08.10....
Brussels, 09 Oct 2003 Over lunch, Ministers discussed with Vice-President Loyola de Palacio on the state of play of the contacts with third Countries, among which the recent Commission's proposal for...