Short on bright ideas
How is the government helping young researchers on short-term contracts move to permanent positions? By introducing more short-term contracts in the shape of five-year fellowships (News in brief,...
How is the government helping young researchers on short-term contracts move to permanent positions? By introducing more short-term contracts in the shape of five-year fellowships (News in brief,...
G. R. Berridge (Letters, March 19) exemplifies woolly thinking over lecturers and pay. The basic relationship between institution, staff and students is economic. No one offers their academic or...
Your article on bedsharing, "Sleep easy with your baby right beside you" (March 12), is misleading. In selectively reporting what the Department of Health has included in an advice leaflet, you fail...
Richard Rastall errs in his spherical trigonometry when he claims that he and his wife were further separated in Leeds and Dunedin universities than I with my wife in Christchurch and Vannes (Letters...
Enabling institutions without research degree-awarding powers to become universities will not damage higher education ("Breaking research link will 'hamper' funding", March 19). The new requirements...
"The QAA intends to introduce a code of practice to ensure that PhD examining is standardised" - The Times Higher , March 19 Thank you, Gillian. That concludes your viva. If you wait in the Inquiries...
The National Union of Students holds its annual conference next week with top-up fees naturally uppermost among the concerns of delegates. There will even be a day's break in the proceedings while...
When even the prime minister acknowledges an £8 billion funding gap in higher education, it may seem craven to celebrate a budget that guarantees no more than a standstill in state funding per...
MPs square up over fees 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...
Brussels, 24 March 2004 Withdrawal of notification pursuant to Article 95(4) and (5) of the EC Treaty (Notification No 2003/A/9171 - Request for authorisation to introduce national provisions...
Copenhagen, 24 Mar 2004 This is the first EEA publication to address the impacts of natural disasters and technological accidents across Europe. Focusing on major events between 1998 and 2002, the...
Brussels, 24 Mar 2004 Full text of Document 7670/04 Suite of documents 7670/04 No. Cion prop.: No prev. doc.: 8990/03 ATO 95 ENER 132 5206/04 ATO 2 ENER 4 ENV 9 Subject: Proposal for a Council...
Brussels, 24 Mar 2004 Bribery, coercion, cheating, lying… this is not the rap sheet of a hardened criminal but a summary of the cases submitted last year to COPE, a special committee founded to...
Bruxelles, le 24 mars 2004 Mesdames et Messieurs, Je suis très content de vous retrouver ici pour discuter d'une question qui m'a interpellé dès que je suis devenu Commissaire à la Recherche. En 2000...
Brussels, 24 Mar 2004 Full text of Document 255/04 Suite of documents 255/04 Subject: Memorandum of Understanding for the implementation of a European Concerted Research Action designated as COST...