Paris, 16 Jan 2003 Astronomers have recently learned a great deal about asteroids and comets that strike the Earth. Small asteroids burn up harmlessly as meteors in the atmosphere. Very large impacts...
Brussels, 16 January 2003 The European Commission and the Greek Presidency will present the first comprehensive results of a research and development (R&D) policies' benchmarking exercise...
Brussels, 16 Jan 2003 Full text of Document 5237/03 14 January 2003 CORRIGENDUM TO INFORMATION NOTE from: Secretariat General to: Delegations No. prev. doc.: 14522/02 ADD 1 REV 1 No. Cion prop.:...
Scientists and technicians who work with animals in ill-equipped laboratories run the risk of developing asthma. Exposure to high levels of airborne rat urine allergens has been identified as a key...
Throw all those notes overboard, says Nathan Abrams. Student-centred seminars are the way forward. Many lecturers compare their lectures to a voyage of discovery. The lecturer is the navigator and...
What is your experience of teaching? Pat Leon asks teachers how they manage. Name : Allison Littlejohn Age : 40 Job : Lecturer in e-learning, Centre of Academic Practice, Strathclyde University...
Radical changes to the research assessment exercise have been roundly rejected by grass-roots academics. Sir Gareth Roberts, commissioned by the Higher Education Funding Council for England to...
The Malaysian government has set up a committee to monitor foreign students who are tempted to engage in immoral activities, including prostitution, during their stay in the country. The move comes...
The task of determining the future shape of Cambridge University fell to its academics as ballot papers on governance and management reforms were sent out this week, writes Caroline Davis. The vote...
Brown and Clarke clash over top-up fees Cabinet ministers clashed yesterday over controversial plans to allow universities to charge top-up fees of up to £3,000 a year, which are expected to be...
Strategy paper will be fine-tuned this weekend Ministers and officials will spend the weekend fine-tuning the higher education strategy paper, which is due to be published next Wednesday. No 10...
A further education college principal who resigned after a row with his local learning and skills council claims college heads across the country are facing similar problems. Ahmed Choonara resigned...
Women are less likely to win places in higher education than men although their qualifications are superior, according to unpublished research. An analysis by Derek Leslie, professor of economics at...
As the second of eight children, Matthias Kelly QC, the new chairman of the Bar Council, seems to have learnt early on to come out fighting. His inaugural speech as chairman pulls no punches. "Top-up...
* Cornelius Katona, professor of psychiatry of the elderly at the Royal Free and University College Medical School, has been named dean of the University of Kent's Institute of Medicine and Health...