Brussels, 10 Mar 2006 Full text of Document 985/06 Chairman: Mr José SILVA RODRIGUEZ; European Commission, Director General for Research 1. Adoption of the Draft Agenda 2. Approval of the...
Unions are keen to shake up the skewed pay system, but they diverge on strategy, says Christina McAnea As the academic unions start the process for industrial action over pay, Unison will be sending...
Brussels, 07 Mar 2006 French-made film 'March of the Penguins' (La marche de l'Empereur), which received 1.13 million euro of EU funding to support its international distribution, has won the Academy...
Brussels, 24 May 2005 Space is becoming a strategic business sector, and both Europe and Italy must ensure they maintain a leading position in this field, says MEP and former Italian astronaut,...
The Royal College of Art launched its innovation strategy this week, showing that commercialisation of ideas is not just for scientists, and offering a possible blueprint for other arts institutions...
Brussels, 10 October 2005 The EU Competitiveness Council will meet in Luxembourg on Tuesday 11th October at 10.00 under the chairmanship of, the Alan Johnson, United Kingdom Secretary of State for...
Firestorm - Among the Dead Cities
Nottingham’s Jubilee Campus is notable not just for its design but also for its role in regeneration, as Matthew Baker reports Back in the 1960s, T. Dan Smith, the maverick leader of Newcastle City...
Lord Sainsbury, the Science Minister, and Janez Potocynik, the European Research Commissioner, have reiterated their support for a Europe-wide funding agency for basic research despite continuing...
As ballot papers went out, just a handful of members came to hear candidates for the UCU's top job, and most were unimpressed. Tony Tysome reports It might have been expected that hustings for the...
Brussels, 29 Sep 2004 If any members of the Deans' European Academic Network (DEAN) questioned the significance of the theme for their annual conference in Porto, Portugal, on and 28 September (...
With the EU about to grow again, Anthony Giddens found its citizens unsure of their raison d'être . But, Michael North hears, he thinks reforms can restore faith and help even the Brits learn from...
Are you obsessed with a 'baggy monster' or has a photocopied pamphlet sparked your passion for a whole new area of research? To kick off our new weekly series, leading scholars explain which books...
The Treasury is privately planning to claw back a significant proportion of the science funding that it committed in its much-vaunted ten-year review of science last summer, The Times Higher has...
It pays to study people and their mores. Stephen Phillips learns why the corporate spotlight is turning on anthropologists A bland office building in a suburb of Portland, Oregon, seems an unlikely...