Brussels, 24 Jul 2003 The European Commission is funding new research aimed at assessing the contribution of high altitude polar clouds to ozone depletion as part of a wider campaign to improve...
Brussels, 24 Jul 2003 Model Contract for Marie-Curie actions a) approved core contract - Mono contractor b) approved Annex II - General conditions - Mono contractor c) approved core contract - Pluri...
Brussels, 16 July 2003 OPINION of the European Economic and Social Committee on the Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, to the Council and to the European Economic and...
Edinburgh University students have won the right to raise concerns about "unethical" investments in the university's multimillion-pound portfolio under a new code of conduct. The university court...
The future workings of Scotland's new multi-party parliament may be uncertain, but one custom is continuing - the political intern scheme run by Edinburgh University. Eberhard "Paddy" Bort of...
A majority of students support the government's decision to defer payment of tuition fees until after graduation, but most balk at the £3,000-a-year charges proposed by ministers, according to...
As ill-judged remarks go, it is not on the scale of Jo Moore, the public relations consultant who dubbed September 11 "a good day to bury bad news". But Birkbeck College's media and publicity officer...
The proportion of researchers on short-term contracts in Scotland is likely to remain high despite demands that institutions take action to reduce it. Most of Scotland's higher education institutions...
Do you really need to do research to be a good tutor? Pat Leon reports The fury over proposals to create a teaching-only tier of universities is based partly on a belief that students benefit when...
Pat Leon asks a winner of one of this year's national teaching fellowships how she manages. Name: Vicki Tariq Age: 46 Job: Senior lecturer in biology, Queen's University, Belfast. I'm a "skills...
Medical students are receiving "patchy" training on infection, despite a growing risk of a new pandemic, the Lords science and technology committee said last week. At the release of a report on...
Top universities make breakaway move on pay The Russell Group of universities, representing 19 of the top research-led institutions, including Oxford, Cambridge and Bristol, is planning to break...
Top British universities are to break ranks with the rest of the nation's higher education institutions by setting their own policy on issues such as academic pay and student tuition fees. The move...
A scientist who was dismissed from her job at Lord Robert Winston's world-renowned fertility unit at Imperial College London just days after she had suffered a fourth miscarriage has won a case...
Alan Gilbert was this week named the first vice-chancellor of the merged University of Manchester and University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. Professor Gilbert is the...