Access top of Brown agenda
The new premier has pledged investment but what does the sector want? Melanie Newman reports As Gordon Brown took over as Prime Minister this week, higher education had been put firmly on his agenda...
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Ventures with business present gains and pains
The future of university expansion or a false hope? In the first of three articles, Claire Sanders looks at increasing employer involvement in higher education Employer-led higher education is still...
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Statement of the Council's Reasons on its Common Position for a Decision Concerning the Seventh Research Framework Programme (2007-2013) (extract)
Brussels, Sep 2006 Full text of Document 12032/2/06 Addendum 01 Revision 02 Suite of documents 12032/2/06 Subject: Common position adopted by the Council on 25 September 2006 with a view to the...
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The business of being a good v-c 1
A minor flurry of vice-chancellor resignations and retirements, with the prospect of a generation of more "businesslike" vice-chancellors ("Struggle to fill v-c job vacancies", July 21), should not...
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Innovative Medicines Initiative path around bottlenecks to R&D efficiency favours setting up a European Medicines Research Academy (EMRA) (lenhth))
Brussels, 20 Sep 2006 The Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) has published a new version of its strategic research agenda (SRA), outlining strategies to overcome specific 'bottlenecks' to...
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Union politics impaired pay battle, paper says
Ordinary members of the academic unions were let down by poor tactics and bad planning in last year's pay dispute because senior union officials were too focused on the manoeuvring for power in the...
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Select your cane, it's time for a good thrashing
Trust and free speech fly out the window as universities kowtow to the Government, argues Simon Larter The end of my second year is only days away, the pay dispute is having a direct impact on...
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Parliamentary rapporteur on FP7 welcomes EIT proposal
Brussels, 20 October 2006 Jerzy Buzek, Polish MEP and rapporteur on the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) has given a ringing endorsement to the Commission's proposal on establishing a European...
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Take a 'business-facing' approach, ministers say
The Government's response to the Leitch review is to make employment and training a priority. Rebecca Attwood reports on institutions' early progress A new generation of "business-facing"...
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European biomass conference and exhibition
Brussels, 28 Jun 2005 The 14th European biomass conference and exhibition, with the sub-heading 'Biomass for energy, industry and climate protection', will be held from 17 to 21 October in Paris,...
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The knowledge business goes into boom time
Industry and higher education are uniting to convert the intellectual resources in London's universities into sustainable economic growth and social gains London has global strengths in economic...
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Employers gain bigger voice in training
Employers are to have a greater say in education and training as part of a government-wide skills strategy to be published in the spring. Adult learning and skills minister Ivan Lewis is to hold a...
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Soas to review library layoffs
The School of Oriental and African Studies is to review its decision to sack two prominent librarians in a last-ditch attempt to avert industrial action, writes Phil Baty. At a special governors'...
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Commission Vice-President G¨¹nter Verheugen: ¡± Meeting with the ENVI Committee
Strasbourg, 12th June 2006 Dear Mr Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, I thank you for the invitation and am very glad to have another opportunity, after some considerable time, to discuss our...
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Powerful imperatives to redraw the cultural map
John Gilmore argues it is time to end the marginalisation a subject that is part of the history of everyone in Britain. My 11-year-old has twice studied the career of Mary Seacole at primary school....