Luxembourg, 12 May 2005 C-8/03, Commission of the European Communities v Italian Republic Judgment of the Court of Justice (Second Chamber) on 12 May 2005 (link to English version when available)....
Brussels, 12 May 2005 Full text of Document 7954/05 Suite of documents 7954/05 Subject: Proposal for a Recommendation of the European Parliament and of the Council to facilitate the issue by Member...
Brussels, 12 May 2005 Biometrics technology is increasingly being discussed as a means to tackle fraud and theft. National debates are underway in several countries on how desirable this technology...
Brussels, 12 May 2005 The political leaders of the European Union and the Russian Federation have taken a further step towards the creation of a 'Common space of research and education' between the...
Brussels, 12 May 2005 In light of the increased global competition for top-level students and researchers, a comprehensive effort is needed to attract the best to the US, according to a new report by...
London Met lecturers to strike Lecturers at London Metropolitan University have vowed to disrupt an inspection by the government's higher education watchdog by going on strike for the whole of next...
"We (academics) seem to be inundated with new courses" - Nancy Rothwell , The Times Higher, May 6 UNIVERSITY OF POPPLETON From: Jamie Targett, Director of Corporate Development Subject: Summer Term...
Like other treadmills, the research assessment exercise is universally unpopular but hard to escape. The full impact of the reforms introduced for 2008 will become obvious only when the results - and...
Academics in other institutions may regard next week's vote on governance reforms at Oxford University as an irrelevance, but the outcome will have significance beyond the dreaming spires. A...
Your article "Top-ups may fund pay rises" (May 6) implies that students from disadvantaged backgrounds will be getting a raw deal if the extra cash is largely used to attract and keep tip-top...
The temptation to produce league tables is irresistible, however misleading they might be. Your table purporting to show what percentage of fee income higher education institutions would spend on...
It is time that the ill-informed and emotional outbursts by Frank Furedi and others criticising programmes to develop the teaching of new lecturers were confronted with some published evidence (...
Frank Furedi manages the difficult task of being even more insubstantial and baseless than your original report on Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education programmes ("Lecturers bored by lessons...
Recent letters on the "ineffectiveness" of teaching courses for new staff and the constant drone of Frank Furedi make me question the effectiveness of some UK academics as researchers. Selective...
To defend the concept of plausible reasoning as involving "thinking that is analogical and associative rather than logico-deductive" (Letters, May 6) is simply not good enough in the context of...