Brussels, 28 Sep 2006 A new scheme, run by the Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), uses a global positioning system (GPS) to track migrating birds in order to...
Brussels, 28 Sep 2006 Surgeons from France have used the European Space Agency's (ESA's) experimental Zero-G aircraft to carry out the first ever surgical operation conducted without gravity. The...
Brussels, 28 Sep 2006 A new EUREKA project aims to bring a range of services to within touching distance. The SmartTouch project, which is led by the Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT), will...
Brussels, 28 Sep 2006 The European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) has organised a policy conference to discuss 'How to integrate big amounts of wind energy into the European power infrastructure', to...
Washington D.C., 28 Sep 2006 The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) today released experimental estimates of the effect of intangible assets on the U.S. economy. Specifically, BEA found the nation's...
Washington, 28 Sep 2006 NASA Administrator Michael Griffin returned to the United States September 28 after a landmark visit to China â€" the first time a NASA administrator has visited that country...
Washington, 28 Sep 2006 NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity has arrived at the rim of a crater about five times wider than a previous stadium-sized crater it studied for six months. Initial images from the...
London, 28 September 2006 Programme Aim To bring together the funding providers and other regulators in the Higher Education sector to facilitate discussions on the opportunities available for making...
Deadline: 05/12/2006
City looks overseas for young recruits The City is increasingly looking overseas for young recruits because foreign graduates are more mature than their British counterparts, a report warned...
From: The Office of the President Subject: University Values As you will recall, we recently engaged a leading firm of management consultants, Quantum Leap plc, to assist in the preparation of a set...
The three submissions published this week by university groups on the future of research assessment and funding hold no great surprises, but they constitute an interesting case study on the way in...
The first and proudest boast of Education Secretary Alan Johnson's speech to the Labour Party conference involved the thousands of state schools refurbished with government money. This week's report...
Ed Hughes, the research assessment exercise manager, could easily minimise game-playing by universities that don't submit all researchers ("RAE 2008: only the very best need apply", September 22). He...
Which is fairer of the following two systems? First, one in which an institution with a department of 100 academics, 99 of whom are worthy of a 1* research rating and one of a 5* rating, chooses to...