Brussels, 01 Sep 2005 The third European Medical and Biological Engineering Conference 'EMBEC'05' will be held in Prague, the Czech Republic, from 20 to 25 November. The scientific programme of EMBEC...
Brussels, 01 Sep 2005 The Club of Amsterdam is organising an event on 'The future of ideas - intellectual property', that will be hosted by PricewaterhouseCoopers in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on 21...
Brussels, 01 Sep 2005 The European Commission's Joint Research Centre has published a call for tenders for a review of the health effects and related risks from hair dyes. During the last decades...
Thousands miss out on university places Tens of thousands of students are to lose out on their dream of going to university, figures showed today. Top institutions such as University College London...
piercemuller@poppleton.ac.uk Out-of-office reply. Dr Piercemuller is away from his desk on annual research leave and will respond to your communication on his return. maureen@poppleton.ac.uk Dr...
When academics in Britain and elsewhere discuss the brain drain, they are normally worrying about the loss of high-flyers to the US. But lecturers' unions were right to remind us this week that the...
There are good reasons why there should be more postdoctoral students on temporary contracts in the physical and biological sciences than in the arts and social sciences. Modern scientific research...
In the leader about the article "IQ claim will fuel gender row" (August 26), the editor observes with pleasure that research on gender differences in IQ have not been hindered by "political...
Jonathan Baldwin mounts a spirited defence of the new University College London logo and of the importance of design ("Why I think designers are undervalued", August 12). He has raised a number of...
Christina Riggs writes: "It is still perfectly possible to gain an Egyptology degree without ever seeing an ancient object", (Books, August 19). This is hilarious - but ominous. I have visions of...
The problems highlighted in the article "MA tutors refuse to supervise critics" (August 26), which include cancelled modules, delays in feedback and lack of availability of supervisors, are probably...
OK, I'll stick my head above the parapet. Mary Evans claims that female staff fill the emotional gaps left by poor male managers and that "institutional life publicly marginalises the personal" (...
Mary Evans cited Poppleton's Maureen as an example of the way that "female staff should stop filling the emotional gaps left by poor male managers". I am delighted to see that, judging from the...
Jon Baldwin's article (Opinion, August 26) prompts me to contrast my experiences as an independent researcher in accessing UK and Canadian university libraries. In the two UK establishments with...
On what grounds could "lecturer's leaders" object to the proper appointment of staff because they are related to existing staff ("Anger at Brunel over recruits' family ties", August 26)? I have...