Selling science is a job for a young person
Most PhD students are youthful and passionate. Stephen Blake says they are the key to turning pupils on to research "What's the point of what you do?" As an engineering PhD student, I deal with lots...
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Soft focus skews the perspective
Everything today's students do is recast as a 'skill' - even when they keep their mouths shut, says Frank Furedi Universities appear to be experiencing a big decline in the number of applications for...
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It pays to keep rivalry healthy
If you want to review other people's work, it is vital to be on top of your subject. And don't be unjustly critical of books that are in competition with yours - you'll live to regret it, advises...
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Time and space in short supply
Name: Michael Preston-Shoot Age: 54 Job: Professor of social work and dean, faculty of health and social sciences, Luton University. Salary: £70,000 Practical training/education: Qualified as a...
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Ask the panel
Worried about your employment, maternity, pension rights? Send your questions to The Times Higher advice panel. My post is funded from a three-year project grant and this is my second fixed-term post...
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Promoters of women in science win silver Swans
Edinburgh University's chemistry department and Imperial College London have been praised as good workplaces for female scientists. The two won silver awards in the first Athena Swan (Scientific...
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Drive for efficiency in review process
The system by which academics review the grant applications of their colleagues is to be put under the spotlight by the research councils, it emerged last week. The eight research councils want to...
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Who got that cash?
Barry Richards, professor of public communication, Bournemouth University The view of journalists as a cold-hearted bunch, immune to the fallout from the stories they pursue, will be challenged by...
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Policy debate on genetically modified organisms: Environment Council, 9 March
Brussels, 9 March 2006 13th Council Meeting - Environment. Brussels, 9 March 2006 Provisional version The Council held a policy debate on genetically modified organisms (GMOs), allowing discussions,...
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Stakeholders argue against reduction in FP7 budget for health research
Brussels, 09 Mar 2006 MEPs, national ministers and other stakeholders have called on the Commission not to reduce the funding allocation for health research that it set out in its initial proposals...
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Breakthrough in understanding of neurodegenerative diseases
Brussels, 09 Mar 2006 New research by an American-Portuguese team has identified a potential new treatment for degenerative neurological disorders, especially Huntingdon's disease (HD) and Parkinson'...
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Commission decision authorising placing GM maize line 1507 on market (OJ link)
Brussels, 9 March 2006 Commission Decision of 3 March 2006 authorising the placing on the market of food containing, consisting of, or produced from genetically modified maize line 1507 (DAS-&...
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Research projects provide hard data to support common immigration policy
Brussels, 09 Mar 2006 Fewer subjects are currently debated more at national level within Europe than immigration. The subject has been on governments' agendas for decades, but issues such as...
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Encouraging innovation a key priority in Commission's Energy Green Paper
Brussels, 09 Mar 2006 Stimulating innovation in energy technologies and boosting the European research effort would both be key priorities of a new European Energy Policy, according to plans set out...
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NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Approaches Red Planet
Washington, 09 Mar 2006 After a seven-month, 492-million-kilometer journey to Mars, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) will begin the most critical minutes of its...