Leicester cuts 135 jobs
Leicester University will lose 135 jobs as part of a restructuring exercise designed to improve its performance in the next research assessment exercise. Forty-five of the jobs will be lost in...
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King's seeks new recruits as bidding war with UCL hots up
King's College London is advertising 63 posts in The Times Higher this week in the wake of a review of its research profile. Many of the jobs are in chemical biology and bioinformatics and will, it...
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Who's in who's out?
STIRLING Gerard Hastings, a leading researcher on tobacco industry controls, has joined the university under a joint initiative with the Open University to form the Institute of Social Marketing....
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Today's news
Students go for Lib Dems Students will shun Labour in favour of the Liberal Democrats at the next election, according to a poll published today. Daily Express, Times Higher Education Supplement Visa...
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Annex to the Report on the Statistics on Animals Used for Experiments in the EU in the Year 2002 (link)
Brussels, Jan 2005 Full text of Document 5633/05 Addendum 01 Suite of documents 5633/05 Annex to the: Report on the Statistics on the Number of Animals used for Experimental and other Scientific...
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Research Commissioner Janez POTOCNIK: Ethical issues should be discussed in an open and friendly spirit of tolerance, Opening session of the conference “Research Ethics Committees in Europe: facing th
Brussels, January 2004 Opening session of the conference “Research Ethics Committees in Europe: facing the future together” Brussels, January 2004 Dear Members of the European Parliament, Ladies and...
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Research throws doubt on therapeutic value of existing stem cell lines
Brussels, Jan 2005 The majority of existing embryonic stem cell lines may be worthless for therapeutic purposes according to new research carried out by scientists in the US. As reported in the...
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SMART-1 captures close-range images of the Moon
Brussels, Jan 2005 The SMART-1 satellite has sent back its first close-range images of the Moon. The pictures were taken from an altitude of between 1,000 and 5,000 kilometres above the lunar surface...
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Human Frontier Science Program calls for project proposals
Brussels, Jan 2005 The Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP), of which the European Union is a member, is calling for research proposals in the field of complex mechanisms of living organisms. The...
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Lightweight design of aircraft structures
Brussels, Jan 2005 A workshop on the lightweight design of aircraft structures will take place in Hamburg, Germany, from 7 to 11 March. The objective of the event is to provide pointers on advanced...
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Laurie Taylor
So what are your thoughts on Janet Kennedy? Are you inclined to make an offer of a place? Well, I was reasonably impressed by her references. Good. Shall we run the usual checks? "Date and month of...
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Alan Ryan
Graduates earn 40 per cent more over a lifetime than non-graduates, but what exactly does that differential reflect? If you told Isaiah Berlin that you had liked a book or an article, you always...
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Leader: A step at a time for candid Oxford
Oxford University's green paper, which has caused a predictable stir this week, is a remarkably open document. It admits that, among other failings, "nearly all of the university's core activities...
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Leader: Top-up fears diminish
Universities do not usually hope for applications to be below expectations, but the fact that there appears to be no dramatic leap in demand for places in 2005 will be a source of relief to...
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Facts not fiction will aid access 1
The troubling findings of the Higher Education Funding Council for England's report, which shows that initiatives aimed at widening access for certain social groups are having little effect, should...