Jobs must go to make UK books balance
Universities up and down Britain this week announced job cuts as they struggled to balance their books in the face of falling student numbers and budget cuts. Staff at the University of Manchester...
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Don's Diary: Howard Wright
Tuesday Landing at Bahir Dar in North Ethiopia is unsettling. The conflict in Eritrea is close by and the airfield is a base for government Mig fighter planes. The window blinds are shut for take-off...
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Global earth observation plan takes critical step forward
28 November 2003 Italy Hosts Second Follow Up Meeting to Earth Observation Summit The ad hoc intergovernmental Group on Earth Observations (GEO) will hold its second meeting on November 28-29 in...
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Global earth observation plan takes critical step forward
28 November 2003 Italy Hosts Second Follow Up Meeting to Earth Observation Summit The ad hoc intergovernmental Group on Earth Observations (GEO) will hold its second meeting on November 28-29 in...
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For the record
12 centres to focus on innovation for industry Science minister Lord Sainsbury will launch 12 new research centres in a £120 million collaboration between the Engineering and Physical Sciences...
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Commissaire Philippe Busquin: "Plantes pour le futur" Une vision européenne pour la biotechnologie des plantes en 2025 Conférence de presse Bruxelles, le 24 juin 2004
24/06/2004 Mesdames et Messieurs, Le Conseil européen du printemps 2003 (mars) a lancé un appel « pour que l’espace européen de la recherche et de l’innovation soit consolidé par la création de...
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Anna Birulés: We need to boost the role of the outermost regions as a work platform in the European Area of Research and Innovation
Brussels, 26 June 2002 Minister Birulés highlights these regions' potential for R&D stemming from their geographical features and variety of natural environments Las Palmas, 24/06/2002 In...
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Analysis: How deep must students dig?
In the second of our series on what the government must address in its upcoming strategy paper, Alison Goddard considers the case for top-up and differential fees. Despite prime minister Tony Blair's...
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Lecturers angry at AUT decision to suspend action
The executive of the Association of University Teachers was accused this week of failing to use its democratic machinery in deciding to suspend strike action over pay five months after it began....
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For the record
Gloucestershire joins the university ranks England's first new university in a decade was created this week as the Privy Council confirmed that it had awarded the title to Cheltenham and Gloucester...
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Don's diary: Filming Shanghai boom
Tuesday Below a fog of pollution and moisture, the Beijing summer is in full swing. We are on our way to shoot Shanghai Boom , the video for an Open University interdisciplinary course on the...
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Glittering prizes
University of Leeds academics have won the following prizes: Richard Smithells , emeritus professor of paediatrics, has won the Kennedy Foundation's International Award for Scientific Achievement for...
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Bosses take token line on training
Employers are tokenistic about lifelong learning and are turning the idea of "employability" into little more than a "hackneyed catchphrase", according to an Institute of Employment Studies report....
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Battling British: Boudicca et al
The Oxford Companion to Military History - Warrior Race
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ESA's Artemis satellite reaches geostationary orbit - from total loss to full recovery
Paris, 18 Feb 2003 In the late afternoon of Friday 31 January, a final trim manoeuvre nudged Artemis into its assigned position in geostationary orbit, completing a most remarkable satellite recovery...