Rectors lean tentatively towards fees
German university rectors have expressed cautious support for fees as the Bonn government seems to be backtracking on electoral promises to block any such move. In Berlin recently, the president of...
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Anger at plan for Italy's own MIT
The Italian government's plans to spend €100 million (£70 million) a year on a new national research institute while cutting resources for universities and existing research institutions have divided...
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Fight back now, or you'll buckle under the burden
The Better Regulation Review Group is waging war on excessive red tape and winning, says David VandeLinde Because universities are in receipt of public funds, they can never expect to exist in a...
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Who got that job?
Trevor Watkins, 54 East Midlands Universities Association Policy Adviser - 0.4 fte Salary £50,000 per annum pro rata Job advertised in The THES , February 14 2003 The East Midlands Universities...
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I teach in the Caribbean - from a French chateau
Distance learning has much to offer students - and lecturers - yet it remains underexploited, says Barry Blundell A November mist leaches colour from the parklands surrounding this 15th-century...
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Teaching: on the front line
What is your experience of teaching? Pat Leon asks teachers how they manage. Name : Elisabeth Skinner Age : 57 Job : Principal lecturer in local policy (the study of policy as it affects local...
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Royal Society calls time on dual support
The Royal Society this week urged the government to scrap the current "outdated" system for funding university research in favour of a more straightforward and less bureaucratic system. In a formal...
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'Guerrilla war' over bursaries predicted
New universities have threatened a "guerrilla war" over the government's higher education bill, in a split that threatens both the bill and the future of Universities UK. The Coalition of Modern...
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Email threats and egg-throwing spark fears of Hindu extremism
Academics fear increasing attacks from militant Hindus after a lecturer faced an ugly confrontation with egg-throwing protestors. Wendy Doniger, professor of the history of religions at the...
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Appointments
Dame Louise Johnson , professor in molecular biophysics at Oxford University, has joined the Oxfordshire based synchrotron facility Diamond Light Source as life science director. An international...
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Today's news
Rolls-Royce threat to move research out of UK Sir John Rose, chief executive of the jet engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce, is threatening to move the company's remaining research and technology...
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Managing industrial property rights in biotechnology
Brussels, 20 Nov 2003 A seminar on industrial property rights in biotechnology will take place from 19 to 23 January in Nice, France. The event is aimed at persons seeking to use intellectual...
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France failed to transpose some articles of directive on release of GMOs: judgment
Luxembourg, 20 November 2003 C-296/01, Commission of the European Communities v French Republic Judgment of the Court of Justice (Sixth Chamber) on 20 November 2003 (link to English version when...
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EUR 1 million Descartes Prize rewards excellence in high-tech and fundamental science
Brussels, 20 November 2003 Today in Rome European Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin awarded the EU Descartes Prize to two pan-European research teams, who presented outstanding projects in the...
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Finalised Text of Council Decision on the Accession of Canada to the Agreement Establishing an International Science and Technology Centre Between the USA, Japan, the Russian Federation and Euratom/EE
Brussels, 20 Nov 2003 Full text of Document 14850/03 Suite of documents 14850/03 Subject: Council Decision on the accession of Canada to the Agreement establishing an International Science and...