Paris, 12 Dec 2003 Tiny ground movements that occur too gradually to be seen by the human eye can nevertheless be detected by ESA satellites looking down to Earth from 800 km away. At a workshop in...
Paris, 12 Dec 2003 ESA's X-ray observatory, XMM-Newton, has returned tantalising new data about the nature of the Universe. In a survey of distant clusters of galaxies, XMM-Newton has found puzzling...
Washington, 12 Dec 2003 The adoption of agricultural biotechnology in the United States continues to grow, offering increasing economic and environmental benefits, according to results of a study...
A Manchester man was jailed this week after helping illegal immigrants obtain student visas with forged documents. Samoury Toure, 53, of Moss Side, Manchester, was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment...
The government has published the Human Tissue Bill to regulate the retention and use of human tissue and organs in medical research, in the wake of the Alder Hey and Bristol inquiries. The proposed...
Education secretary Charles Clarke went head to head with Labour rebels this week, making his pre-Christmas sales pitch for top-up fees repaid through a graduate contributions scheme rather than a...
Rebel Labour MPs this week turned on vice-chancellors for backing the government's top-up fee plans, writes Alison Goddard. Universities UK sparked fury this week when it published the case for...
Testing prospective students on their ability to think is proving better than A levels and interviews at predicting subsequent academic success, a conference heard this week, writes Alison Goddard....
European plans to fund human embryonic stem-cell research have been put on ice after ethical objections from three countries. A proposal by the European Commission to grant central European Union...
Britain's success in biomedical research is "miraculous" given its budget, but without a massive injection of cash it will be lost, the new chief executive of the Medical Research Council warned MPs...
UK stem-cell researchers face the prospect of greater international isolation as opponents in the European Parliament and the United Nations consider moves to restrict their work. A bid to get...
Working as an academic commuter is difficult and stressful, writes Ruth Morse, but it can have its benefits If anyone had told me, in the 1970s, that I would spend most of my time commuting...
As Europe faces the chill of winter, academics may warm to a job in the statistical sciences department at the University of Cape Town, or a post as halls administrator in the West Indies, writes...
Ivan Popov, 44 Job advertised in The THES , April 4 2003 New Directions Lecturer in Rapid Product Development Department of Mechanical and Design Engineering Portsmouth University The position...
Facilitating rather than teaching lies at the heart of successful problem-based learning, says Maggi Savin-Baden. "Mummy, why do the clouds move?" my three-year-old asked as she climbed on to a chair...