We visited six departments before today's results were announced to find out how they were preparing for the RAE. Academics whose work has been excluded from the research assessment exercise have...
We visited six departments before today's results were announced to find out how they were preparing for the RAE. Oxford University: Geography 1996:4, 2001: 4 Staff: 36 (full-time equivalent) The...
We visited six departments before today's results were announced to find out how they were preparing for the RAE. Greenwich University: Natural Resources Institute 1996 score 4, 2001 score 3a Staff:...
We visited six departments before today's results were announced to find out how they were preparing for the RAE. Leeds University: Theology 1996: 4, 2001: 4 Staff: 13 (full-time equivalent)...
A survey of 2,000 contract researchers has called for a "change of culture" to recognise that these staff are not largely transitory, employed for a short time before progressing to other careers,...
Universities Scotland is spotlighting the ways in which higher education institutions work together, arguing that Scotland is the ideal size for collaboration. It has sent a brochure outlining 36...
Spain's universities and private language schools, which are already reaping the benefits of soaring global demand for Spanish-language tuition, want to increase their share of the market. Spanish is...
Czech education minister Eduard Zeman has told universities to treble the amount of money they raise from independent sources to help meet demand for wider access to degree courses. Mr Zeman, whose...
Denmark's new Liberal-Conservative government has brought universities, research activity and research policy under one ministry of science, technology and innovation. Universities, the research...
Italy's universities are preparing to adopt codes of ethics aimed at combating sexual harassment, as required by a 1991 European Union directive on workplaces. Equal opportunities committees, which...
A ten-year collaboration between Nigeria's University of Maiduguri and the University of Frankfurt is yielding insights into the basin of Lake Chad and its environment. The lake, once one of Africa's...
Rome At a mass at St Peter's Basilica in Rome, Pope John Paul II told 10,000 students from 20 European countries that Europe needed "a new intellectual vitality" based on the "courage of free and...
France has launched an institute to study the issues raised by its ageing population. Jane Marshall meets the eminence grise who will lead the effort. He may not look like a pensioner, but...
How resilient are the different welfare systems across Europe as the claims made upon them rise? Governments across Europe face the dilemma of squaring the welfare circle. Electorates are...
The public will appreciate social scientists only when they make the case for their work's value to society, argues David Walker. Social scientists ought to be singing "happy days are here again"....