Brussels, 18 Jun 2004 The European Commission has published a call for tenders for the monitoring and evaluation of information society technologies (IST) research: results and impact indicators. The...
Deadline: 19/07/2004
Thousands of graduates still earn less than £20,000 a year by the age of 30, according to research that will challenge the positive picture painted in this week's biggest-ever survey of graduates in...
A high-tech "Big Brother" could soon be monitoring students' every computer keystroke and mouse-click as universities step up moves to halt the alarming rise of internet plagiarism, writes Phil Baty...
Tim Collins is one of a very rare breed of politician - a Tory MP elected to the Commons for the first time in the Labour landslide of 1997. And he is an avid Dr Who fan. Since his election to the...
* Badi Baltagi, chair of economics at Texas A&M University and associate editor of the Journal of Econometrics and Econometric Reviews, has been appointed to a part-time chair at Leicester...
Health chiefs rattled by reports of a shortage of National Health Service dentists are pushing dental schools to increase student numbers by admitting reserve list candidates, The Times Higher can...
A bitter row has reopened between two eminent Ivy League academics over whether governments should have the right to torture terrorist suspects under interrogation. Last week's Times Higher carried...
One of the world's most prestigious academic publishers has been accused of promoting the use of "dirty tricks" in a document advising authors how to gain a competitive advantage over their rivals. A...
Genetic testing has revealed that most of Britain's supposedly indigenous red squirrels are probably recent European interlopers that have left their native cousins clinging on in isolated...
Terry eagleton on the very english love affair with the essay Also Founding father: volume one of a new biography of the anthropologist Malinowski reviewed by Nigel Barley Focus: Economics David Bell...
The cost to the public purse of offering courses through the Government's failed e-university runs to £44,000 per student, ministers admitted this week. Baroness Ashton of Upholland, Labour education...
The Learning and Skills Council has announced that Chris Banks, chief executive of food and drinks firm Bigthoughts and a member of the national LSC, has been appointed its chairman. He will be paid...
An academic who stripped to his underwear and donned a hood outside a Labour Party office in protest against the Iraq War, has been elected to the city council in the constituency of Charles Clarke,...
Newspaper tycoon Sir Anthony O'Reilly has helped to provide Queen's University Belfast with $7 million (£4 million) towards a £40 million library. The funding includes a personal donation of £2...