Can't stem progress
The UK could profit from the US' politicking with basic biomedical research, says Roger Pedersen If you've seen the movie The Graduate, you'll remember the scene in which the financier walks over to...
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All deserve a sporting chance
Education is right to nurture sport as it widens access and fosters personal growth, says Deian Hopkin Almost 50 years ago, a 25-year-old student doctor ran the first four-minute mile, at Oxford...
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Your intellectual gonads on a knife-edge...
... or dealing with the media. Tim Birkhead offers a few tips on how to keep those scientific credentials intact You are completing your PhD when you have just had the good fortune, good supervision...
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JOBWATCH: add detail to a dream
To fulfil Suffolk's cherished dream of having its own university, its fairy godmothers are seeking a multi-talented mover and shaker to set the project on track. Pat Leon provides a progress report...
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Who got that job?
Joseph Tah, 41, and Farzad Khosrowshahi, 47 Professor in construction IT Min £42,1 Job advertised in The Times Higher, May 3 2003 The calibre of candidates for a chair in construction information...
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Passion will thaw those now frozen in low gear
It's 9am Monday and the lecture hall is ice cold - how do you get engineering students fired up? John O'Brien suggests stoking up their enthusiasm Any student is difficult at 9am on a Monday, but...
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Teaching: on the front line
What is your experience of teaching? Pat Leon asks teachers how they manage Name: Tiffany Atkinson Age: 31 Job: Lecturer in English and creative writing at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth Salary...
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MPs square up over bill
Rebel Labour MPs will make their final attempt next week to force the government to abandon plans for variable tuition fees by tabling a radical amendment to the higher education bill. Ian Gibson,...
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Painter's brush with 'heresy'
Are there allusions to a medieval heretical belief that Jesus Christ had a sexual relationship with John the Evangelist in an unfinished altarpiece by Michelangelo? A US scholar will pose the...
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Brown says v-cs are key to success of economy
Effective leadership from vice-chancellors is vital if UK universities are to be world leaders, the chancellor said this week, writes Paul Hill. Speaking at the launch of the Leadership Foundation...
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Today's news
Maniac dons offered cycle-safety lessons Oxford University, stung by complaints from pedestrians, is offering its 12,000 staff, a quarter of whom cycle, free places on a cycle safety course. Gillian...
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First European semantic web symposium - ESWS 2004
Brussels, 25 Mar 2004 The first ever European semantic web symposium (ESWS 2004) will be held in Heraklion in Crete, Greece, from 10 to 12 May. The semantic web is described by the World Wide Web...
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Mouth of the mighty Yangtze
Paris, 25 Mar 2004 Satellite photograph High resolution satellite photograph The coloured waters shown here in this 23 March Envisat Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) image have...
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Commission targeting innovative SMEs to take up EUR 2.2 billion worth of European research funding
Brussels, 25 March 2004 At a seminar in Brussels on March 24-26 European Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin will present the EU funded DETECT-it project, that will help small and medium-sized...
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Commissioner Erkki Liikanen: "EU-India Opportunities: The IST Programme", 2004 Euro India Co-operation Forum on the Information Society, New Delhi, 25 March 2004
The political environment for research In Europe, we want to become a more competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy. To achieve this, we need to focus on European-wide investment in research...