Teaching: on the front line
What is your experience of teaching? Mandy Garner asks teachers how they manage Name: Rachel A. Harris Age: 35 Job: Lecturer in ethnomusicology at School of Oriental and African Studies Salary: ?24,...
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Towards a European strategy for particle physics
Brussels, 04 Nov 2005 Concerned that the long timescale of particle physics experiments and the complexity of associated research programmes are delaying the advancement of particle physics, the...
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Climate change conference emphasises incentives for research and technology transfer
Brussels, 03 Nov 2005 A meeting between representatives from 20 countries on climate change closed with participants agreeing that new technologies are key to slowing the process, and pledging to...
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Nuclear friends get engaged for good
Engaging India
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Market with a wealth of talent - but should UK plunder it?
At a House of Commons Home Affairs Committee on immigration control in May, Gwyn Prosser, MP, told fellow members that while Leeds University had received some 2,500 applications from Nigerians, and...
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Today's news
Professor's anger and sadness as victims helped One of the consultants treating victims of the London bomb blasts spoke of the anger felt by medical teams as they dealt with the injuries. Professor...
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Imperial effort to bank a river
Mad about the Mekong
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Bombings spark fears of foreign rush to cancel UK study plans
Terrorism fears could lead overseas students to cancel plans to study in the UK, with dire consequences for universities' income and their share of the international recruitment market, experts...
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World Bank to use science and technology to drive international development
Brussels, 21 Jan 2005 The World Bank has signalled its intention to boost the science and technology capacity of the world's poorest countries in order to promote their economic development. Over the...
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Oases with a loud tick, tick ringing through the air
Half of the world's most densely populated cities are located in areas vulnerable to earth-quakes - and there is a very good reason why. James Jackson explains It has already been a bad century for...
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Today's news
Qinetiq float in fresh trouble as scientists sue for $400m The controversial flotation of the defence technology group Qinetiq ran into fresh trouble yesterday after Cambridge University scientists...
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Research-related items (Extract from: Preparation of the Competitiveness Council of 28/29 November 2005)
Brussels, 25 November 2005 The EU Competitiveness Council will meet in Brussels on Monday 28th and Tuesday 29th November starting at 10.00 on Monday under the chairmanship of Alan Johnson, United...
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Freedom row fails to sink Warwick's Singapore plan
Warwick University set out to renegotiate plans for a ?300 million campus in Singapore despite a decision by its governing council not to proceed with the original proposal because of staff concerns...
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Revisit legacy of the fathers
Journal of Classical Sociology
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Pick'n'mix makes for an artful confection
Forgotten Empire - Birth of the Persian Empire