Pick the right date or expect a turkey
Timing is crucial when setting festive deadlines, explains Kevin Fong I have always felt it a little cruel that our physiology course unit runs in the six weeks before the Christmas break. This...
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Less is best as you window-dress
Get your dream job by turning your CV into a tailor-made shopping list of your skills that will convince a prospective employer to snap you up, advises Harriet Swain Admit it. This year's first New...
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My worst nightmare
I still don't know how I managed it. I was giving a conference paper on information security strategies. The audience was attentive and I was nearly at the punchline - when it happened. Somehow, I...
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Boost scores on and off pitch
Football has been used in different ways to serve educational and social agendas. Football clubs across the country are involved in delivering Positive Futures projects to ten to 19-year-olds in...
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Teacher audit
* Name: Andrew Ireland * Age: 29 * Job: Senior lecturer in television production, Bournemouth Media School * Salary: Senior lecturer scale (up to £36,428) * Qualifications: BA (Hons) media production...
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Who's got the cash?
A cross-disciplinary team of researchers at Southampton University can look forward to booking an extra holiday after a ten-year industrial collaboration resulted in a licensing agreement. The deal...
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Sheffield expansion will create 100 jobs
Sheffield University expects to create 100 academic posts at what it describes as "the UK's largest multidisciplinary research complex". The university plans to spend £20 million over the next two...
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Women increase influence in business
British boardrooms may be notoriously male dominated but university business schools are proving more enlightened, with women far more conspicuous at all levels. The Association of Business Schools...
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Today's news
Companies alarmed by chemistry closures The recent closure of university chemistry departments threatens to erode the country's role as a centre of medical innovation, UK drugs companies told a...
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Research Commissioner Janez POTOCNIK: Intervention in EP Plenary on EU-US Relations European Parliament
Strasbourg, 12 January 2005 First of all I would like to convey to you Commissioner Ferrero-Waldner’s apologies. She regrets very much that she is unable to attend this debate with you today. However...
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Virtual visit to ESA's Spacecraft Operations Centre
Paris, 12 Jan 2005 Scientists are starting to gather at ESA's Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany, ready for Huygens' descent to Titan on Friday, 14 January. Visit ESOC through our new...
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JRC outlines tsunami information gathering role
Brussels, 12 Jan 2005 The European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) has outlined the contribution that it has been making to assessing the impact of the Indian Ocean tsunami. The JRC has been...
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Hebrew University of Jerusalem's neural centre named as Centre of Excellence
Brussels, 12 Jan 2005 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Interdisciplinary Centre for Neural Computation has been named as a Centre of Excellence by the European Commission. In making the decision...
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Marie Curie information day, Northern Ireland
Brussels, 12 Jan 2005 A Marie Curie information and proposal writing day will take place in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on 20 January. The event is a joint initiative of the UK and Irish national...
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Oral Evidence given to the UK Parliament Scienct and Technology Committee on The Future of the National Institute for Medical Research (link)
London, 13 Jan 2005 Full text Uncorrected Oral Evidence 10 January 2005 The Future of the National Institute for Medical Research Uncorrected transcript of Oral Evidence presented by: Professor Alan...