Brussels, 21 Apr 2006 Full text of Document 1203/06 Suite of documents 1203/06 The meeting was chaired by Mr José SILVA RODRIGUEZ (European Commission, Director General for Research), Mr...
Brussels, 21 Apr 2006 The European Society for Molecular Imaging (ESMI) holds its kick-off meeting in Paris, France, from 17 to 19 May. ESMI is an attempt by influential actors from academia, biotech...
Brussels, 21 Apr 2006 A colloquium entitled 'Hands Off Our Ovaries' will take place in Brussels on 3 May' The event will include a number of feminist writers, who will discuss the reproductive...
Car bombs kill six in Baghdad university Four car bombs hit Baghdad on Monday, killing at least six people and wounding almost 50, police said. Two blasts occurred near the Mustansiriya University,...
Racially and culturally prejudiced academics are bad for university research ratings, according to the vice-chancellor who drafted guidelines on promoting good campus relations. Les Ebdon, vice-...
Lawyers are using the increasingly bitter academic pay dispute to show students how they could sue institutions for "breach of contract" if their degree course is disrupted, it emerged this week....
Tuba virtuoso James Gourlay has been appointed director of the School of Music at the RSAMD. The world-renowned tuba virtuoso James Gourlay, head of wind and percussion at the Royal Northern College...
* John Troy , head of the School of Accounting and Economics at Napier University, has been elected president of Space, an international network of European academic institutions. It is the first...
No-appeal visa regime may thwart initiative, says UUK. The Government this week launched a drive to recruit an extra 100,000 overseas students by 2011, amid ongoing fears that its new visa regime...
Initially they were nervous - a small group of overseas students standing up to talk about their experiences of UK higher education in front of government ministers and vice-chancellors. But they sat...
It was love at first sight for scientists Anne Eady and Jon Cove, writes Jessica Shepherd. She was a 26-year-old doctoral student, he was a 29-year-old postdoctoral researcher, both in the...
How would a metrics-based RAE affect you? Next week we report on the first major study looking at the winners and losers that would emerge under an alternative system to the research assessment...
The Scottish Executive has missed the deadline to present to Parliament its plans to charge higher fees for medical courses, prompting speculation that it will drop the proposals. Scotland is raising...
Liverpool Hope University will host a "Pedagogical Research in Higher Education" conference on May 2. It aims to raise the profile of pedagogical research in university teaching and learning. Details...
Scientists are invited to a conference on pedagogic research in physics next month. The one-day event, organised by the Higher Education Academy and the Institute of Physics, will be held on May 17...