Brussels, 24 Jun 2005 The European Commission's Information Society and Media DG has published a call for tenders for an IST 2005 study on 'the Semantic Grid: technologies and standardisation'. The...
Brussels, 24 Jun 2005 The SYNTHESYS office has announced the third call for proposals under the Commission's Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) Integrated Infrastructure Initiative. SYNTHESYS project...
Schwartz to leave Brunel University Steven Schwartz, the controversial vice-chancellor of Brunel University, today surprised the higher education sector by announcing he was leaving to head an...
Identity and Religion
This week's competition, to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a recent history of medicine: "These are strange times, when we are healthier than ever but more anxious about our...
The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization
Clara's Grand Tour
Venomous Earth
The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period
On the Parish?
Reshaping Economic and Monetary Policy
Understanding the Process of Economic Change
Demanding mums and dads will push universities into accepting far more parental representation on campus, a British academic has predicted. Frank Furedi, professor of sociology at Kent University,...
One in five academics is on a teaching-only contract, according to official statistics that will fuel concerns over the demise of the traditional link between teaching and research. At least 80 per...
The UK's biggest physics group will be led by Ian Halliday, who expects peer pressure to raise standards Ian Halliday, who stood down in March as chief executive of the Particle Physics and Astronomy...