Brussels, 30 Sep 2004 With the technological development of 'intelligent' devices progressing rapidly, information and communications technologies (ICT) experts are getting closer to developing a...
Brussels, 30 Sep 2004 The European Commission has issued a call for tenders related to the production of a European textbook on ethics in research. The contract will support the production of a basic...
Brussels, 30 Sep 2004 The European Commission has published a call for tenders relating to a comparative study of opinions produced by national ethics councils. The general objective of this contract...
Brussels, 30 Sep 2004 The European Commission has published a call for tenders relating to a study of the impact of ethical review under the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6). This contract will...
Brussels, 30 Sep 2004 The UK Research Office (UKRO) will hold an information day on the EU's Marie Curie actions in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 26 November. The day will provide an outline of the Marie...
Oxford scientists set for flotation windfall Five Oxford University scientists are to become paper millionaires with the flotation of a company that genetically modifies zebra fish and fruit flies in...
University of Poppleton "Planning for the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise", Friday October 1st, Middlewhite Theatre. Livestock Reception Centre. Poppleton Pork Products Plc. Facilitators : Jamie...
Universities UK should beware the Tories bearing gifts as their plans for UK institutions are duplicitous When the wooden horse appeared below the walls of Troy, the prescient old priest said, "...
The novelty has worn off higher education's performance indicators (page 8) since the blaze of publicity that greeted their first appearance five years ago. Like most national statistics, they alter...
After the battering Tony Blair received from his party over top-up fees, no one could blame him for avoiding the subject at the Labour conference this week. But there is something strange about a...
Hull University has a thriving sports science programme and local Football Association referee courses are run on its premises; this is the connection with Pierluigi Collina. Far from scoring an own...
It may be that the decision to reward an individual with an honorary degree is "uncontroversial" but thetype of degree that is awarded is. While I was teaching in the School of Education at Sussex...
Public debates on internal issues are almost always counterproductive. My distinguished colleague Peter Coles manifestly thinks otherwise (Letters, September 24). The problems regarding pay and...
Which planet is Peter Coles, Nottingham University's professor of astrophysics, living on? He claims that the Association of University Teachers' greylisting of his institution is a deliberate...
So, "Dull Birmingham pays £100,000 to make itself more interesting" (September 17) to the same consultants who market the low-grade TV channel Five? This is another case of overpaid administrators...