Brussels, 20 Nov 2003 French Minister for Research and New Technologies, Claudie Haigneré, has admitted that 2003 has been a difficult year for French researchers. She claimed, however, that things...
Brussels, 20 Nov 2003 A workshop aimed at members of the research community who are beginning to develop a proposal for an EU funded Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) project will be held in Cambridge...
Brussels, 20 Nov 2003 A European Commission conference on challenges to European competitiveness will take place in Brussels, Belgium, on 9 December. Policy responses to get Europe back on the Lisbon...
Paris, 20 Nov 2003 Ground-breaking techniques which will be used to find tiny planets orbiting stars outside our Solar System are already being developed to help scientists detect cells in the early...
Apologising for education secretary Charles Clarke's absence at last week's Association of Colleges conference, higher education minister Alan Johnson said: "Charles and I like to come to events like...
Prince Philip's verbal gaffes have led a student to challenge his life chancellorship of Edinburgh University. Jeremy Kemp has tabled a motion for next week's students' association annual general...
While the English rugby team plays Australia in final of the World Cup this weekend, English academia will be represented in Oz by Andy Cushing. The University College Worcester sports lecturer is to...
Academia seems to have gone sex mad, the Diary notes. Last week, Wendy Doniger, professor of the history of religions at the University of Chicago, had an egg thrown at her for linking Hinduism and...
Week One I am sitting in Madison Square Garden for the first of two Bob Dylan concerts at the start of a research trip to complete a book on him and Leonard Cohen. Both are hailed as spokesmen for...
Despite all the noise about top-up fees and changes to student funding, what has been lacking is hard evidence on their impact. New research commissioned by the Department for Education and Skills...
...invest in a student instead and get yourself a percentage of future earnings, says Miguel Palacios In the face of depleted public coffers and pressure to increase tuition fees, students and policy...
Putting pressure on PhD students to complete theses in four years is misguided, insists Anthony Smith The funding councils have proposed that unless 70 per cent of full-time students at any higher...
By following a few basic rules, anyone can deliver a decent conference paper. Susan Bassnett offers some useful tips. What makes a successful conference? Cynics would say that as long as there is one...
There has been a flurry of vacancies in economics departments as universities bolster their strength for the next RAE, from a heavyweight chair at Cambridge to PhD studentships at St Andrews. Steve...
A Labour backbencher is so incensed at a national newspaper's suggestion that she supports her own party's plans to introduce top-up fees that she is suing for libel. The move demonstrates the uphill...