Oxford considers university-wide admissions as applications
Oxford University has unveiled plans for a university-wide admissions system to ensure the applications process is fair and efficient amid rising student demand. Proposals would see all...
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Legislative and Work Programme for 2006 - research and innovation will be key
Brussels, 15 Dec 2005 Parliament adopted a resolution put forward by the EPP-ED, ALDE and UEN groups with 255 votes in favour, 251 against and 32 abstentions. On the financial perspective, Parliament...
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UK budget proposals provide for 75 per cent increase in EU research funds
Brussels, 15 Dec 2005 While the UK's latest proposals for the next EU budget have already been dismissed by many, Europe's research community is quietly celebrating the inclusion of provisions to...
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One hundred biotech technology offers showcased in new brochure
Brussels, 15 Dec 2005 One hundred technology offers resulting from EU funded biotechnology projects are profiled in a new brochure published by the European Commission. As highlighted by Science and...
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Enhancing transparency from farm to fork
Brussels, 15 Dec 2005 The fifth international food safety conference, 'Enhancing transparency from farm to fork', will take place in Paris, France, from 1 to 3 February. Organised by CIES, a global...
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Today's news
Ailing Middlesex makes 175 staff redundant Middlesex University is making 175 voluntary redundancies - including 33 academic staff - in a bid to save £10 million in operating expenses, the university...
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Laurie Taylor Column
University of Poppleton Once again, it's time for some of the university's movers and shakers to select their Books of the Year. The Vice-Chancellor There's not been much time for reading (or indeed...
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Leader: Not the end, but the chance for a new beginning
Imperial College's decision to leave the University of London has led some observers to speculate yet again that the federal university has had its day. Not only might other colleges follow Imperial'...
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Little wellbeing in being a temp 1
So David Guest believes that, in terms of "wellbeing", those who are on temporary contracts are certainly not "worse off" than those on permanent contracts ("End the 'jobs for life' culture",...
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Little wellbeing in being a temp 2
Ending jobs for life in academia would be a disaster as we would lose competitiveness: industry-style contracts would not lead to better research. As long as the US has jobs for life, the UK would be...
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Little wellbeing in being a temp 3
Jobs for life, or decent, stable, working rights and conditions? The paper by Louise Ackers and Liz Oliver urges moving academics on to insecure, compulsory casualised contracts. Oliver and Ackers...
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Still evolving science 1
The staggeringly arrogantJattack on intelligent design (ID) by a cabal of zoologists suggests that, like most biologists, few of them have read any modern versions of ID (Opinion, December 9). Design...
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Still evolving science 2
I share your respondents' distaste for intelligent design and their dismay that it should be taught in schools. But one of your contributors stated that "evolution has stood the test of time". If he...
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Still evolving science 3
I'm not a creationist (presumably by accident rather than by design) but I think I recognise an appeal to a community's sacred scripture when I hear it. "As Karl Popper tells us, if you can't prove...
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Still evolving science 4
In his review of Michael Ruse's The Evolution-Creation Struggle , Harry Collins makes a number of incisive points (Books, December 9). But he takes Richard Dawkins to task for his excessive "...