Oxford takes out a contract on campus life
Real interaction between student and lecturer will die when freshers are legally bound to study, says Frank Furedi We all know about defensive medicine. For a while now, some doctors have avoided...
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Meet your successor, Sven
The wounded outgoing England manager Sven-Göran Eriksson has warned his replacement to stay at home and lock the door when not on the pitch. A leading psychologist this week set out a more practical...
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Report by the Scientific and Technical Research Committee (CREST) on the Funding of Basic Research Through National Funding Agencies in the European Research Area: - Sampling the Diversity (link)
Brussels, 02 Feb 2006 Full text of Document 1201/06 Suite of documents 1201/06 Delegations will find attached a comparative analysis undertaken for CREST by Mr Koen VERLAECKT on the funding of basic...
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Commissioner Janez POTOCNIK European Commissioner for Science and Research, Opening remarks at International Symposium on Climate Change, Belgian Royal Academy of Sciences
Brussels, 2 February 2006 Ladies and Gentlemen, It is a great pleasure for me to open this Symposium on climate change. The timing for this Symposium is excellent: awareness of our changing climate...
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CoR Swedish delegation chief Kaliff backs petition urging Member States to reverse competitiveness budget cuts
Brussels, 31 January 2006 Roger Kaliff, head of the Swedish delegation in the Committee of the Regions, is one of the leading signatories of a petition urging the Austrian Presidency and 24 other...
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How to find the orbital needle in the celestial haystack
Paris, 02 Feb 2006 Today experts from across the world meet at ESA to discuss how to best calculate spacecraft orbits. Even though the space age is now 49 years old, determining the optimal...
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Agenda of the Research Working Party, 2 February 2006
Brussels, 02 Feb 2006 Full text of Document 398/06 1. (poss) Rules of participation: - continuation of examination of proposal doc. 5057/06 RECH 1 CODEC 4 2. Specific Programme "Cooperation": -...
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Today's news
Bigger budget shows pay rise possible, lecturers say Lecturers said yesterday that the announcement of £6.5 billion government funding for universities next year meant there was enough money to meet...
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Laurie Taylor Column
New websites give students a chance to rate their professors ( www.ratemyprofessors.com ) and professors to rate their students (rateyourstudents.blogspot.com ) - The Times Higher, January www....
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Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Normally atop the campus flagpole outside my windows, the Stars and Stripes struggle against the unstable weather. But Tufts University takes seriously its vocation for educating young Americans in...
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Leader: No marks for grant ambition
Government grant letters are not designed to be models of peerless prose bursting with vision and optimism. But this week's missive to the Higher Education Funding Council for England (which was so...
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Leader: Degrees of variation
It will come as no surprise to academics (or graduates) that degree standards vary within as well as between universities. Institutions must take seriously the Quality Assurance Agency's examples of...
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Bring on those happy bunnies 1
Although it is true that many "student leaders at Russell Group universities have threatened to boycott the national student satisfaction survey" ("Student threat to boycott survey", January ), King'...
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Bring on those happy bunnies 2
Like Frank Furedi ("In pursuit of the happy bunnies", January ), I also used to think that the national student satisfaction survey was a waste of time and money. Downloading the data from the...