Set workers study targets
UK business and academe must band together to maintain levels of key skills, says Helen Connor If the UK is to be internationally competitive, we have to increase the skills of our existing workforce...
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Examine ideas, not exam skills
Coursework may be the plodder's option, says Maria Misra, but it can also favour originality over the glib elan that exams too often reward A recent study has claimed that plodder students most...
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Ears - they're your best asset
What should you do when students come to you with personal issues? Listen, advise and above all take them seriously, cautions Harriet Swain, but don't try to solve all of their problems A student...
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Fab labs ... when the kit's working
Name : Mark Pfuhl Age : 39 Job : Lecturer/Royal Society research fellow at the department of biochemistry at Leicester University, doing basic research in structural biology with a focus on proteins...
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Ask the panel
Worried about your employment, maternity, pension rights? Send your questions to The Times Higher advice panel. The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council's David Phillips...
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Pioneers set ethics at heart of courses
Academics at Leeds University are blazing a trail by embedding ethics in all student courses amid a growing national awareness of the need for a more explicit ethical dimension to higher education....
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York leads pack as autumn hunt sets off in force
York University is spearheading an autumn jobs bonanza with a raft of new chairs and readerships across a range of disciplines. The university is offering 20 new posts in this week's Times Higher ....
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Who got that job?
David Clarke Professor of music, International Centre for Music, School of Arts and Cultures, Newcastle University Advertised in The Times Higher , April 8, 2005 It was an odd moment for David Clarke...
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Major conference on how to put risk capital at the service of European innovation and enterprise
Brussels, 29 Sep 2005 On Wednesday and Thursday next week, the UK Presidency and the European Commission will jointly hold a major conference in London to debate and make recommendations on how risk...
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Recommendation of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 September 2005 to Facilitate the Issue by the Member States of Uniform Short-Stay Visas for Researchers from Third Countries Carrying
Brussels, 29 Sep 2005 Full text of Document 3621/2/05 Revision 02 Suite of documents 3621/2/05 Strasbourg, 28 September 2005 RECOMMENDATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL TO FACILITATE...
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Coreper Agenda Entry for the Proposed Decision concerning the Seventh Framework Programme for Research
Brussels, 29 Sep 2005 Full text of Document 12636/05 Suite of documents 12636/05 PROVISIONAL AGENDA for: 2111th MEETING OF PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVES COMMITTEE (Part 1) date: Friday 30 September 2005...
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FP7 proposals strike balance between evolution and continuity, says COST President
Brussels, 29 Sep 2005 The President of COST - the intergovernmental framework for European cooperation in science and research - has welcomed the Commission's proposals for the Seventh Framework...
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Parliament asks for inclusion of rheumatism research in FP7
Brussels, 29 Sep 2005 The European Parliament has adopted a resolution calling on the European Commission to make rheumatic diseases a research priority within the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7),...
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Exploiting whole grain to improve health
Brussels, 29 Sep 2005 The EU-funded research project HEALTHGRAIN is to identify new sources of nutritionally enhanced grain, as well as to develop methods for producing new, competitive, grain foods...
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Workshop on promoting an innovation culture in the regions
Brussels, 29 Sep 2005 A workshop on promoting an innovation culture in the regions will take place in Liverpool, UK, on and 28 October. The aim of this workshop, jointly organised by the Innovating...