Paris, 19 May 2005 In 2006, with the launch of Jules Verne, the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) will become the new European powerful automatic re-supply spaceship able to bring an indispensable...
Kelly doubts college targets Ruth Kelly today cast doubt on the value of a key government education target. The Education Secretary made clear she would not have set a goal of getting half of 18 to...
The Government is urging universities to be on high alert for attacks by animal rights extremists as it emerged that Oxford University is prefabricating its new £18 million animal research facility...
On the eve of the annual Eurovision Song Contest , veteran host Terry Wogan will be heartened to learn that his mischievous theory of tit-for-tat voting has been confirmed by academic research. Alex...
Philip Esler, head of the Arts and Humanities Research Council, is keen to focus on knowledge transfer It may be too early for detailed plans from Philip Esler, but one likely priority for the new...
* Marian FitzGerald , former researcher in race relations at the Home Office, has been appointed visiting professor of criminology at the Kent Criminal Justice Centre, University of Kent. * Aberdeen...
Labour's manifesto pledge to send 50 per cent of young people into higher education risks "obscuring" the Government's wider aim of encouraging learning from infancy to retirement, the Education...
It has gained notoriety for feeding the nation's schoolchildren "nutrition-lite" meals such as the Turkey Twizzlers lambasted by celebrity chef Jamie Oliver. Now giant catering company Scolarest is...
Alana Bates , communications officer for Middlesex University Students' Union, reviews the university's Trent Park Mansion cafe, run by Scolarest. The polystyrene-like chips look rather dry, as do...
BT executives are learning that it's good to think as well as talk - after consulting some of the country's leading philosophers for advice on keeping customers. Cambridge University's philosophy...
The Association of University Teachers this week began "naming and shaming" universities it claimed were not making enough progress towards implementing last year's pay framework, writes Phil Baty....
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A study of the impact of recent schemes and initiatives designed to raise the status of teaching in universities is being planned by the Higher Education Academy later this year. The HEA is already...
Spaced-out aliens making human babies, copies of a castrated race horse, a Danish clinic selling three grades of sperm, the burning of twins and Xeroxed people were some of the ideas aired at The...
Oxford University may be forced to abandon plans for compulsory staff appraisals after its ruling congregation voted overwhelmingly against the idea. More than 500 of the 3,500 academics who are...