Will monographs fall victim to the marketing men?
Helen Hague finds that, in the UK, the hybrid textbook is knocking the traditional tome off the library shelf. Research in arts and humanities in British universities is proliferating, fuelled by...
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L'administration leaves French flair undimmed
Continuing our look at the work of people in higher education, All in a day's work, Harriet Swain spends a day with the head of Nottingham's School of Modern Languages. Name : Nicholas Hewitt Post :...
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Open market shuts door on scholarly achievement
The mentality that portrays students as consumers restricts the true intellectual choice available to them, argues Frank Furedi. The rhetoric of student choice is all the rage in higher education. "...
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Is the masterplan coming unstuck?
UK business appears to have an insatiable appetite for employees brandishing MBAs, but when the going gets tough it might find that such qualifications really aren't worth the paper they are written...
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We must make words
As the US considers a unilateral strike on Iraq, Sean Coughlan talks to Oxfordacademic and former peacekeeper Sir Marrack Goulding about the future of the UN One could imagine meeting Sir Marrack...
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EIROforum at "European Research 2002"
Paris, 06 Nov 2002 Last year, seven of Europe's leading intergovernmental research organisations set up a high-level co-ordination and collaboration group, known as EIROforum. They include CERN (...
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COST JAF, draft agenda - 18-19 November (biomaterials)
Copenhagen, 06 Nov 2002 Meeting of the COST JAF Group will take place in the following three parts: Part I: 10h00: Biomaterials Chair: Prof. Luc Balant 1. Introduction and adoption of the agenda 2....
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South African Science Minister calls for global partnerships to bridge digital divide
Brussels, 06 Nov 2002 The key factors behind the divide between Europe and a continent such as Africa is the lack of modern infrastructure, inefficient and weak regulations, and the lack of local...
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Keynote panel looks into the future of the information society
Brussels, 06 Nov 2002 When considering the future of information technology, few would imagine a world without computers, yet this was the vision of one of the panel members at a discussion on the...
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Mobile science exhibitions arrive in Brussels
Brussels, 06 Nov 2002 EU Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin was given a tour of three mobile, EU funded science exhibitions currently on display in Brussels on 5 November. It is no coincidence...
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Nature highlights use of space imagery to study Indonesian fires
Paris, 06 Nov 2002 Writing in tomorrow's issue of Nature magazine, a team of European and Indonesian scientists detail their use of ESA and NASA satellite imagery to help measure huge amounts of...
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XMM-Newton closes in on space's exotic matter
Paris, 06 Nov 2002 A fraction of a second after the Big Bang, all the primordial soup of matter in the Universe was 'broken' into its most fundamental constituents. It was thought to have disappeared...
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No more doubts about ESA's Venus Express!
Paris, 06 Nov 2002 Yesterday, ESA's Science Programme Committee (SPC) gave the final go-ahead for the Venus Express mission. The SPC, which met on 4 and 5 November 2002, unanimously confirmed its...
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Indian scientists criticise removal of DNA samples from India for European study
Brussels, 06 Nov 2002 Indian scientists have accused European scientists of violating India's guidelines on removing biological material for research from the country. A joint UK/German study...
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Update: 12:30
Oxford University plugs for green energy Oxford University is to become the biggest 100 per cent buyer of "green" elecricity in the UK and the third largest in Europe. A consortium of the colleges...