Sorting the prose from the cons
How do you make the leap from writer of a PhD thesis to award-winning author of a page-turner? Times Higher Young Academic Author of the Year Rana Mitter reveals the possibilities and pitfalls The...
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Linguist with a passion for bon mot is tipped for top
OUP says Richard Scholar is an author to watch. Mandy Garner meets him Modern languages may be languishing in universities, but for Richard Scholar they herald a bright future in publishing. Scholar...
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Liberté takes back seat as scholars told: think 'positive'
The French Government has sparked protests by prescribing how historians should approach the Republic's colonial history, writes Jane Marshall Historians are on the march in France. They are calling...
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Hope turns to despair as cash crisis bites
Changes to funding at the LSC are hitting those students the Government most wants to reach, says Tony Tysome Anyone who knows Nehemiah Small could not doubt his commitment to learning or his...
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Today's news
Ethics code seeks to regulate science A proposed ethical code for scientists would help junior staff blow the whistle on unethical behaviour and also help promote the subject in schools, the Royal...
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ESA's Looks for Subsidence in the World's Biggest Manmade Hole using Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry
Paris, 04 Jan 2006 The European Space Agency (ESA) is working with engineering firm AMEC to keep an eye on possible subsidence in the world's largest artificial hole, the Palabora copper mine,...
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Fact Sheet on the EU's new Director General of Research, Jose Maria Silva Rodriguez (link)
Brussels, 04 Jan 2006 José Manuel Silva Rodriguez - New Director-General of the Research DG DG Research http:///europa.eu.int/comm/dgs/research/i ndex_en.html
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Microwave transistors: materials and devices
Brussels, 04 Jan 2006 The second TARGET Winter School on microwave transistors materials and devices will take place in Jena, Germany, from 21 to 24 February. Organised by the EU funded TARGET...
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Supercomputing gets a Ttrans-Atlantic Boost
Brussels, 04 Jan 2006 DEISA, an EU-funded supercomputing infrastructure project, and its US counterpart (TeraGrid) have tied the 'information technology' knot with the aim of putting together a...
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Latest research news
Naturalist criticises closure of eco labs The television naturalist Sir David Attenborough has joined in a backlash against plans by a research council to close several ecological laboratories, one...
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GALILEO on track: successful launch of th GIOVE-A satellite
GALILEO, Europe’s global satellite navigation system is now a concrete reality. Today, the 600-Kilogram GIOVE-A satellite, manufactured by the British company Surrey Satellite Technology Limited, was...
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Galileo Joint Undertaking publishes call for tenders for research services
Brussels, 03 Jan 2006 The Galileo Joint Undertaking has issued a call for tenders for research and development services and related consultancy services. The call addresses the following areas:...
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Proposed Regulation laying down the rules for participation in 7th Framework Programme actions (link)
Brussels, 03 Jan 2006 Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL laying down the rules for the participation of undertakings, research centres and universities in actions...
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Ban on antibiotics as growth promoters in animal feed enters into effect
Brussels, 22 December 2005 An EU-wide ban on the use of antibiotics as growth promoters in animal feed enters into effect on January 1, 2006. The last 4 antibiotics which have been permitted as feed...
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Failure to reach agreement on GM maize Line 1507: Agriculture and Fisheries Council, 20-22 December
Brussels, 23 December 2005 GM LINE 1507 (13042/05, 14565/1/05) The Council has not reached agreement on the proposal for a Decision authorising the placing on the market of food containing...