Age discrimination is "deeply ingrained" in higher education, and most university staff are unaware of forthcoming laws that will protect them from unfair treatment, experts said this week. Following...
THE IT CROWD Fridays, 9pm, Channel 4 If there's one thing that ten years in the front line of university IT support services has taught me, it's that IT nerds are a race apart. They even stand out...
In these commercially focused times, universities need events and communications people to smooth their diplomatic path. But it seems some are more adept than others. Spare a thought for the poor...
After months of speculation about who will fill Sir Howard Newby's shoes as chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England, the panel making the recommendation has finally met....
The final three contenders for the Hefce top job are still widely believed to be Ivor Crewe, chief executive of Universities UK; David Eastwood, vice-chancellor of the University of East Anglia; and...
Christopher Read detects the stench of Soviet bureaucracy as new RAE criteria force academics to meet Five Year Plan-style targets It was in Leningrad in 1971 that I wrote my first personal...
Real interaction between student and lecturer will die when freshers are legally bound to study, says Frank Furedi We all know about defensive medicine. For a while now, some doctors have avoided...
The wounded outgoing England manager Sven-Göran Eriksson has warned his replacement to stay at home and lock the door when not on the pitch. A leading psychologist this week set out a more practical...
Brussels, 02 Feb 2006 Full text of Document 1201/06 Suite of documents 1201/06 Delegations will find attached a comparative analysis undertaken for CREST by Mr Koen VERLAECKT on the funding of basic...
Brussels, 2 February 2006 Ladies and Gentlemen, It is a great pleasure for me to open this Symposium on climate change. The timing for this Symposium is excellent: awareness of our changing climate...
Brussels, 31 January 2006 Roger Kaliff, head of the Swedish delegation in the Committee of the Regions, is one of the leading signatories of a petition urging the Austrian Presidency and 24 other...
Paris, 02 Feb 2006 Today experts from across the world meet at ESA to discuss how to best calculate spacecraft orbits. Even though the space age is now 49 years old, determining the optimal...
Brussels, 02 Feb 2006 Full text of Document 398/06 1. (poss) Rules of participation: - continuation of examination of proposal doc. 5057/06 RECH 1 CODEC 4 2. Specific Programme "Cooperation": -...
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Bigger budget shows pay rise possible, lecturers say Lecturers said yesterday that the announcement of £6.5 billion government funding for universities next year meant there was enough money to meet...