Brussels, 04 Aug 2005 A team of researchers from the UK and France have used two spacecraft to trace the journey of an eruption on the sun to its arrival at planet Earth. The team, led by scientists...
Brussels, 04 Aug 2005 A conference on nanoscience and nanotechnology will take place in Rome, Italy, from 14 to 16 November. The event will bring together leading experts in research and innovative...
Brussels, 04 Aug 2005 A conference on sustainable urban development within the context of the UN-HABITAT project will take place in Nanning, China, from 9 to 11 November. The event is being held in...
Brussels, 04 Aug 2005 The European Commission's Information Society and Media DG has published a call for tenders for networks of innovation in information society development and deployment in...
Evolution dispute set to split Catholic hierarchy The conflict at the highest level of the Catholic Church about the truth of Darwin's theory of evolution breaks out publicly today. Recent comments...
" RAE panels have agreed that 'super-books' will count as two items ", Times Higher, July 29 From: The Office of the Comptometer-General, Higher Education Funding Council for England. Subject:...
The Oxbridge universities have for centuries dominated UK higher education. Other institutions can only envy their history, traditions and resources. With an array of Nobel prizewinners and other...
The six latest entrants to Britain's university club make their debut at a time of massive change and no small anxiety for the higher education sector - whether it is the uncertainty surrounding the...
You quote the vice-chancellor of Lincoln University as saying that Hull is unappealing to students and "lacks attractiveness as a university city" ("Hull hath no fury like a city scorned", July 15)....
Like Dave Toke (Letters, July 29), we too wish to combat age discrimination in the research assessment exercise. Departments told us that previous RAE criteria discouraged the appointment of early-...
If the "RAE shifts focus from prestige journals" (July 22), where will it shift its focus to (Letters, July 29)? A journal's track record is correlated with its selectivity and peer-review standards...
Hamilton College, which was recently involved in controversy after inviting Ward Churchill to speak on campus, has suffered no decline in applications, contrary to what your article said ("Ideals get...
Douglas B. Kell asks why Laurie Taylor designated Poppleton a city when it does not have a cathedral (Letters, July 29). The requirement that a town have an (Anglican) cathedral before being...
Douglas B. Kell says Poppleton's city status is in doubt as it has no cathedral, but neither has the City of Cambridge, so it's in good company. John Loader, City of Ely (complete with cathedral)
The defence by vice-chancellor Richard Davies of his slash-and-burn policies at Swansea University ("Minor pain, major gain", July 29) is as flawed as the policies themselves. From the announcement...