Brussels, 21 Oct 2004 The EU project SYMBIONIC, funded as a 'specific support action' under the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) will hold a course on the computational systems biology of the neuronal...
Brussels, 21 Oct 2004 Health ministers from seven European countries, together with the European Commission, have announced that they will increase research cooperation in the search for an HIV/AIDS...
Brussels, 21 Oct 2004 Dutch State Secretary for Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment Pieter van Geel has called for the further investigation of all technologies that could provide an...
Brussels, 21 Oct 2004 A virtual network for young practitioners working on science and society issues has been launched - a direct outcome of a European Commission and Joint Research Centre (JRC)...
Brussels, 21 Oct 2004 A Chinese-European networking symposium on research networks and broadband solutions will take place in Shanghai, China, on 9 and 10 December. The event is supported by the...
A conference in London next week devoted to "The Changing Role of the Professor" will address "negative professorial images". Welcome to this afternoon's session on the popular image of the...
Without a code of ethics, university marketing could sell everybody short, argues Steven Schwartz Many years ago, as a junior reporter, I rang several companies that sold traveller's cheques. I told...
The headlines have been all about school diplomas, but this week may come to be seen as just as significant for higher education. The appointment of Sir Martin Harris as the first director of the...
David Eastwood gives the optimistic view of the Tomlinson report on 14-to-19 education, as befits a member of the committee, and many in higher education will give the report a similarly fair wind....
Although it is common outside education to encounter a view that assessment must mean examinations, it is surprising and disturbing to find such a misunderstanding within your pages. Your report last...
We - University College London graduate tutors across a wide range of disciplines - are dismayed at the manner in which precious resources are to be wasted in providing generic skills training, as...
So the new PhD code will involve the Higher Education Funding Council for England in a new inspection regime that will be "paper based, with follow-up visits" (News, October 15) . Then there is the...
Your article "Contract staff laid off in preparation for EU law" (October 8) misquotes me. I do not believe there is a "culture of casualisation" in higher education. There will be a dramatic...
Loughborough University's report on the increased costs of journals will cause publishers to think further on their pricing policies ("Journal costs soar by up to 94 per cent", October 15). Sage is...
Please tell Tim Connell, who asks "Did a Captain Gorse really write a Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue in the 18th century?" that it was Francis Grose who wrote a Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar...