Leader: A fair wind, but not plain sailing
It would be a brave investor who put money into a business that had profit margins of half a per cent. But for English universities, which are recording surpluses of this size, such an outcome should...
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Leader: Visitors not welcome
The US once had an enviable reputation for welcoming academics and attracting some of the best brains on earth. But it is becoming increasingly clear that this era is coming to an end. A wall is...
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Leader: A fair wind, but not plain sailing
It would be a brave investor who put money into a business that had profit margins of half a per cent. But for English universities, which are recording surpluses of this size, such an outcome should...
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Leader: Visitors not welcome
The US once had an enviable reputation for welcoming academics and attracting some of the best brains on earth. But it is becoming increasingly clear that this era is coming to an end. A wall is...
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Alan Ryan
Socrates is our man if we want a Big Conversation about higher education (but we might need to up the hemlock intake)Whatever the fate of the government’s higher education bill, the debate over top-...
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Ig Nobels UK Tour 2004
Navigation, Nutrition and Necrophilia... The Ig Nobels are awarded for the world's most original research. Highlights will include why the brains of London taxi drivers are more...
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Commission awards 2003 Prizes to the best European projects in Renewable Energy (link)
Brussels, 21 January 2004 On the occasion of the European Conference for Renewable Energy, today were handed over in Berlin the 2003 EU Awards of the Renewable Energy Campaign for Take-Off. For the...
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ITRE committee urges more support for Europe's presence in space
Brussels, 21 Jan 2004 The European Parliament's committee on industry, external trade, research and energy (ITRE) has called on Member States and the Commission to increase national and Community...
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400,000 EU scientists working in US: Europe must redress the imbalance, says Irish Enterprise Minister
Dublin, 21 Jan 2004 "Innovation and research key to stimulating growth and jobs" - Harney The capacity of the European Union to hold onto its science and technology graduates and to attract non-EU...
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EU project shows policy makers how to increase sustainability in Europe's cities
Brussels, 21 Jan 2004 An EU funded project on the ability of transport and land use policies to increase sustainability has concluded that a 'policy package', rather than individual policies focusing...
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Third international conference on cancer and the adolescent
Brussels, 21 Jan 2004 The Teenage Cancer Trust is organising the third conference on cancer and the adolescent, the only such event of its kind in the world, to take place in London, the UK, on 1 and...
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Today's news
Israeli branch of UK university issued bogus degrees The University of Humberside is under police investigation in Israel over a multimillion-pound fake degrees scam. It is alleged that&...
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Commission awards 2003 Prizes to the best European projects in Renewable Energy (link)
Brussels, 21 January 2004 On the occasion of the European Conference for Renewable Energy, today were handed over in Berlin the 2003 EU Awards of the Renewable Energy Campaign for Take-Off. For the...
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ITRE committee urges more support for Europe's presence in space
Brussels, 21 Jan 2004 The European Parliament's committee on industry, external trade, research and energy (ITRE) has called on Member States and the Commission to increase national and Community...
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400,000 EU scientists working in US: Europe must redress the imbalance, says Irish Enterprise Minister
Dublin, 21 Jan 2004 "Innovation and research key to stimulating growth and jobs" - Harney The capacity of the European Union to hold onto its science and technology graduates and to attract non-EU...