Paris, 07 Apr 2006 It was on 9 November last year that ESA's Venus Express spacecraft lifted off from the desert of Kazakhstan onboard a Soyuz-Fregat rocket. Now, after having travelled 400 million...
Brussels, 07 Apr 2006 New research by the UK-based Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) has outlined how the world's major donors are missing opportunities to fund peace through funding local...
Brussels, 07 Apr 2006 * PROJET DE RAPPORT sur la proposition de décision du Conseil relative au programme spécifique "Personnel" mettant en oeuvre le septième...
Luxembourg, 8 April 2006 Action brought on 10 February 2006 by the Commission of the European Communities against the French Republic (Case C-79/06) Official Journal publication of the filing (2006/C...
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Edinburgh university and NHS in £50m research bid Edinburgh University and NHS Lothian are set to take part in a £50 million research project aimed at developing new medicines. They will be joined by...
Almost a third of university heads would scrap the 2008 research assessment exercise, according to a poll by The Times Higher . The revelation that so many vice-chancellors would get rid of the RAE...
Accusations of "spoon-feeding gone mad" were levelled at Bradford University this week when it emerged that it provides students with a list of professional proofreaders to help them correct poor...
Richard Barnett officially assumes the role of Ulster University vice-chancellor, succeeding Gerry McKenna Richard Barnett, the new vice-chancellor of Ulster University, is in no need of a settling-...
* Sir Alan West, former First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff, is to be the first chancellor of Southampton Solent University. * Robin Jackson has been appointed chief executive and secretary of...
With no shift in the 6 per cent pay offer in sight, hopes of conciliation have been dashed. Phil Baty reports The national pay dispute looks set to drag on to hit final exams in summer after even...
A vice-chancellor has done a U-turn over his plans to dock the pay of staff boycotting student assessments, writes Phil Baty. The move by David Halton, vice-chancellor of Glamorgan University, has...
Liverpool John Moores University: three union members are refusing to work on a whole-institution Quality Assurance Agency audit. In the engineering department, no exam scripts are being handed in....
An opponent has emerged to run head-to-head with Sally Hunt for leadership of 120,000-member 'super-union' Sally Hunt, head of the Association of University Teachers, will face a top-level challenger...