New consultation on simplification in FP7
Brussels, 23 Jun 2005 A consultation on simplification within the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) has been launched by the European Commission. The aim of this consultation is to provide an...
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Innovact 2005, Reims
Brussels, 23 Jun 2005 Innovact, the European forum for innovative growth companies, will hold its 2005 conference in Reims, France, on 4 and 5 October. In its tenth anniversary year, the Innovact...
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Virtual conference on intelligent production machines and systems
Brussels, 23 Jun 2005 The I*PROMS Network of Excellence will hold a virtual international conference on intelligent production machines and systems from 4 to 15 July. The goal of the conference is to...
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Mars Express radar ready to work
Paris, 22 June 2005 MARSIS, the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding on board ESA's Mars Express orbiter, is now fully deployed, has undergone its first check-out and is ready...
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German Chair for ESA Council
Paris, 22 June 2005 Sigmar Wittig, currently Chairman of the Executive Board of the German Aerospace Centre (DLR), is the new Chair of the ESA Council for the next two years (as from 1 July)....
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Today's news
University cuts lectures to avoid 'over-teaching' Bristol University, which is raising tuition fees to £3,000 a year, has decided that its first-year politics students are being "over-taught". From...
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Laurie Taylor Column
From: Jamie Targett. Head of Corporate Development. To: All Members of Staff. I am pleased to enclose a summary of the final report of the university's Logo Committee. The committee began by...
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Alan Ryan
If low-income students drop out, they end up worse off than before, with dreams broken and huge debts piling up. Over the past three weeks, The New York Times has been running a series of articles on...
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Leader: Science caught in funding trap
Funding for research has seldom been easy to come by in the UK, but it appeared, over the past year, that the outlook was improving significantly. First, the Chancellor's ten-year plan for science...
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Leader: Parents must keep out
Academics and administrators are still coming to terms with the increased willingness of many parents to intervene in their children's higher education. Previous generations of students were far less...
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Is the writing really on the wall? 1
It was quite interesting to read the ever-acerbic Frank Furedi on the pitfalls of credentialism and the gushingly futuristic Baroness Greenfield on the anachronism of book learningJin last week's...
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Is the writing really on the wall? 2
Just how out of touch is Baroness Greenfield to suggest technology may make writing obsolete? Without captions, computer images are little better than animated cave drawings. Thought depends on...
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Not so Merry Met
I was amazed to see you refer to Roderick Floud, president of London Metropolitan University, as a "champion of the poor" ("Queen's Birthday Honours List", June 17) without mentioning that he has...
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Testing times
Alison Wolf (Opinion, June 10) clearly indicates why comparisons of test results and educational standards over time are not normally valid. The learning environment is changing with time, and score...
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Biting point
The report on the growing shortage of clinical academics faced by UK universities (News, June 10) made two highly significant points. The piece noted that the number of dental academics is in...