European Venture Market -- Potsdam, 4-6 October
Brussels, 03 Aug 2006 The European Venture Market for Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) will be held in Potsdam, Germany between 4 and 6 October 2006, organised by Hasso Plattner...
Brussels, 03 Aug 2006 The European Venture Market for Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) will be held in Potsdam, Germany between 4 and 6 October 2006, organised by Hasso Plattner...
Brussels, 03 Aug 2006 On 5-7 September the European Network of Excellence Nano2Life will hold its summer scientific meeting at University College Cork in Ireland. The objective of Nano2Life is to...
Brussels, 03 Aug 2006 Men and women who have larger waistlines may be at an increased risk of colon cancer, according to the findings of an EU-funded study. Over a six-year period, researchers in the...
Lastminuteconferences.com Want to include conference attendances in your CV but lack the necessary funds? Time to turn to lastminuteconferences.com. Look at these bargains! Whither Welsh Higher...
Felipe Fernández-Armesto Second-hand bookshops are full of reviewers' discards. There must be books I have written among them, but none that I have reviewed. When I read a book it becomes part of me...
Seen from the perspective of an English university, the all-consuming question about top-up fees is the effect they will have on admissions over the next few weeks. There will be time enough to worry...
Giving a system designed to monitor student attendance the title of Uni-Nanny may not have been the best way to win acceptance from the responsible adults that it should benefit. But some method of...
A minor flurry of vice-chancellor resignations and retirements, with the prospect of a generation of more "businesslike" vice-chancellors ("Struggle to fill v-c job vacancies", July 21), should not...
It was a reasonably safe bet that recent comments by David Allen, chair of the Association of Heads of University Administration, on non-academics being appointed to vice-chancellor positions would "...
For the past two years, I have been empirically examining the question: should top universities be led by top scholars? I have looked at leaders of 100 global universities and deans of 140 business...
Why has Andy Pike, a University and College Union official, assumed the role of the Lord Protector of the teaching staff at Leeds Metropolitan University and with whose authority ("UCU anger at Leeds...
Don't students deserve "glitzy graduations"? In a high-tech, fast-moving world, the sooner we move away from the stuffy- town-hall speech-laden scenario the better. Cost is an issue, but with...
The feature "Minaret among the dreaming spires" (July 7) contains a number of statements that it is surprising to see in The Times Higher . One would have expected the writer to be aware that there...
The most striking thing about your page of comments on the recent pay dispute (Opinion, July 28) was not the views expressed, which probably represent a fair cross-section of what people in...
David Hirsh has a remarkable ability to play fast and loose with the facts (Opinion, July 28). Or maybe he has been listening to too much Israeli propaganda. Wherever did he get the idea that...