Paris, 11 Jun 2004 The Alcatel Space / EADS Astrium Joint Alphabus Project Team in its role as system responsible for the Alphabus is in the process of issuing competitive invitation to tenders for...
Paris, 11 Jun 2004 Spaceflight engineers face three constant challenges: reducing weight and size, improving thermal insulation and increasing reliability. Progress in these fields does not just...
Spending on science and innovation will more than double over ten years under plans to be announced by the Chancellor, Gordon Brown, before the end of the month. The unprecedented commitment far...
Academics face the prospect of stop-and-search policies on campus as commercial employment practices and security measures creep into the once genteel world of academe, experts warned this week....
Clifford Stott is jetting off to Portugal today for Euro 2004, but the next four weeks will be all work and no play for the Liverpool University lecturer in social psychology. Dr Stott will be...
Leeds University has appointed the following to centenary chairs: Zhongmin Jin , professor of medical engineering at Bradford University, chair in computational bioengineering; Jon Lloyd , Max Planck...
Universities worried about how to set their tuition fees and bursaries may "hold back" information from their 2006 prospectus and risk leaving sixth-formers temporarily in the dark about the cost of...
Niall Ferguson, the controversial British historian, launched a seething attack on fellow academic Martin Jacques and The Guardian during the Hay Festival last weekend. The professor of financial...
A dramatic long-term increase in the proportion of academics who are employed exclusively to conduct research is revealed in an analysis by The Times Higher . Latest figures from the Higher Education...
FAMILY FORTUNES House of Bush, House of Saud , a disturbing insider account of the business links between the inner circle of the Bush administration and the Saudi royal family, reviewed by Alex...
Two cohorts of degree students were told they would receive "A grades" for work that could not be assessed properly because their tutors had been laid off. First and second-year art students at the...
Bristol University is bucking a national trend by setting up a new teaching and research centre for East Asian studies. The university believes that the interdisciplinary centre will play a major...
Lancaster University plans to axe its art department and concentrate investment in music and theatre studies instead. A closure recommendation by the university's management advisory group follows a...
The Government faced humiliating defeats in the House of Lords this week over its plans to introduce top-up fees as peers forced key concessions on the Higher Education Bill. At the Bill's report...
Experts are planning to break the age-old link between measuring the passage of time and the motion of the Earth and Sun. Increasing conflict between the need for precision in the modern age and the...