Don't let a stifled yawn be your wake-up call
How do you inject life into an unresponsive seminar group? Susan Bassnett has some pertinent advice for the exasperated tutor Sooner or later we all come up against one of the most dispiriting events...
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Jobwatch: early signs of growth
Government plans to get children on the right educational track from a young age are creating new job opportunities as universities look to recruit experts in childhood studies. Pat Leon reports...
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Who got that job?
Dénes Szücs, 30 University Lecturer in Neuroscience and Education Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge £23,296 - £35,950 pa Job advertised in The THES , May 2 2003 A young Hungarian...
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Skills give students a spring in their step
A hunger for knowledge has opened doors for aspiring learners in York with few or no qualifications, say Leila Roberts and Linda Pritchard. Can you take students, many without any qualifications,...
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Teaching: on the front line
What is your experience of teaching? Pat Leon asks teachers how they manage. Name : Rosie Parnell Age : 31 Job : Lecturer in the School of Architecture, University of Sheffield. Salary : £24K plus a...
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Georgian England saw first 'celebrity'
The cult of celebrity may seem a modern phenomenon. But historians have found that Britain's first modern-style celebs started pursuing fame for fame's sake more than two centuries before Big Brother...
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Oxford tutor attacks Cambridge interview
Downing College's techniques were 'bullying and intimidating'. An Oxford University admissions tutor has attacked her Cambridge counterparts for using what she claims are discredited "bullying and...
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MoU for the Implementation of a European Concerted Research Action Designated as COST Action A24 "The Evolving Social Construction of Threats" (link)
Brussels, 08 Jan 2004 Full text of Document 205/04 Suite of documents 205/04 Subject: Memorandum of Understanding for the implementation of a European concerted Research Action designated as COST...
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MoU for the Implementation of a European Concerted Research Action Designated as COST Action C18 "Performance Assessment of Urban Infrastructure Services: the Case of Water Supply, Wastewater and Soli
Brussels, 08 Jan 2004 Full text of Document 204/04 Suite of documents 204/04 Council Register
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MoU for the Implementation of a European Concerted Research Action Designated as COST Action 925 "The Importance of Prenatal Events for Postnatal Muscle Growth in Relation to the Quality of Muscle Bas
Brussels, 08 Jan 2004 Full text of Document 203/04 Suite of documents 203/04 Council Register
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Today's news
Accept bill as whole or not at all, Clarke warns MPs Education secretary Charles Clarke warned Labour MPs yesterday that they could not adopt a "pick and mix" approach to the government's plans for...
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MoU for the Implementation of a European Concerted Research Action Designated as COST Action 634 "On and Off Site Environmental Impacts of Runoff and Erosion" (link)
Brussels, 08 Jan 2004 Full text of Document 202/04 Suite of documents 202/04 Council Register
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Provisional Agenda for Coreper (Part 1), 9 Jan
Brussels, 08 Jan 2004 Full text of Document 5070/04 Suite of documents 5070/04 1. Adoption of the agenda I(1) 12. Financial implications of the special reports by the Court of Auditors (a) No 12/2003...
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Report on the proposed Council regulation on Community plant variety rights (link)
Brussels, 08 Jan 2004 FINAL A5-0482/2003 17 December 2003 Type of Procedure: Consultation procedure REPORT on the proposal for a Council regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 2100/94 on Community...
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Commission proposes new instrument for EU wide recognition of qualifications
Brussels, 08 Jan 2004 The European Commission adopted a new proposal on 7 January, with the aim of rationalising numerous existing instruments into a single framework for the transparency of...