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),...
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...
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...
Brussels, 29 Sep 2005 An international conference on innovative solutions for competitiveness in the transport industry will take place in San Sebastian, Spain, from 4 to 7 October. The European...
Washington, 29 Sep 2005 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [Boulder, Colorado] Press release, September , 2005 NEW INDEX PROVIDES BENCHMARK FOR ATMOSPHERIC GREENHOUSE GASES Researchers...
Oxford to give outsiders equal say on its future Oxford University has published plans to end nearly 900 years of self-government by creating a board of directors with a majority of members from...
"Academics need to be lured on to training courses with enticing titles such as 'A Chair in Ten Years'" - Report from the Higher Education Development Group, September 2005 University of Poppleton...
Discussions on the reform of the UK's creaking degree classification system have been taking place inside the Burgess Group for almost two years; vice-chancellors had agreed to do something about it...
For an area of activity deemed sufficiently important to warrant a "Prime Minister's Initiative" in 1999, the recruitment of overseas students is being treated in remarkably cavalier fashion by the...
Anthony Glees's article "Beacons of truth or crucibles of terror?" (September 23) suggested that as some terrorists had attended UK universities and as there are also some offensive student...
I am a committed atheist, and yet I was taken aback by Anthony Glees's suggestion that universities should ban faith societies. Perhaps my Oxford college should shut its chapel? Freedom of...
I was disturbed by Anthony Glees's suppositional arguments and misleading conflations in his article on campus extremism. We are asked to believe that students absent from classes are plotting...
During 35 years working in higher education, I made many decisions that some found not to their liking. According to your coverage of bullying ("Bullying rife across campus", September 16), this...
It was disappointing to read the inaccurate reporting of Victim Support's hate crime research project in Frank Furedi's article "Be afraid, be very afraid... no don't" (September 16). The main aims...
Blackburn College has been involved with foundation degrees from the outset. It offered two degrees in the pilot and now offers 28 titles for 2005-06. All but one of these have been written and...