Belfast gang target institute's Catholics
The Belfast Institute of Further and Higher Education had to close for a day when a gang threatened students after four nights of rioting in the city. The gang burst into the Tower Street section of...
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Geographers told their subject is in danger
The breadth and status of geography is in danger of being undermined as universities restructure their disciplines and faculties, the president of the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British...
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UK pushes businesses to join global research
The government has doubled the number of scientific attaches in British embassies and expanded the International Technology Service to try to foster more collaboration between UK business and foreign...
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Hodge tells universities to attack world market
British institutions must be dynamic and responsive to the global market, higher education minister Margaret Hodge will tell a conference on the future of higher education today. Ms Hodge will say: "...
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Institutions line up to join e-university
The e-university - now called UK eUniversities Worldwide - has received more than 65 partnership proposals from 28 institutions to provide online degrees. It says it is on track to launch its first...
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Ukerna switch keeps internet link going
British universities narrowly escaped isolation from the internet as one of the Janet network's suppliers went into liquidation. Janet's holding company, the United Kingdom Education and Research...
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Received with reservations
A £50,000 teaching fellowship sounds great, writes Pat Leon, unless it wrecks your RAE status and alienates colleagues Twenty "star" lecturers will join the growing fellowship of national teaching-...
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Commission reports on Lithuania's progress towards closure of Ignalina nuclear power plant: answer to parliamentary question
Strasbourg, 13 June 2002 Verbatim report of proceedings, 13 June 2002 (Part A) Anfrage Nr. 19 von Marialiese Flemming (H-0360/02) Betrifft: Hochrisikoreaktoren vom Typ Tschernobyl Answer Over the...
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Euratom and the Joint Research Centre (consultation - non-binding amendments passed)
Strasbourg, 13 June 2002 Konrad SCHWAIGER (EPP-ED, D) Report on the proposal and amended proposal for a Council decision adopting a specific programme 2002-2006 for research and training to be...
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Commission to invest Euro 700 million in nanotechnology research
Brussels, 13 June 2002 Machines not bigger than a molecule will one day surf our blood stream, search and destroy infected tissues, and heal our wounds. This is just one of the applications of...
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Research and Training on nuclear energy (consultation - Commission proposal approved with non-binding amendments)
Strasbourg, 13 June 2002 Konstantinos ALYSSANDRAKIS (EUL/NGL, GR) Report on the proposal and on the amended proposal for a Council decision adopting a specific programme 2002-2006 (Euratom) for...
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SUCCESS 2002 is a competition that offers European students the prize of a one-year internship with the European Space Agency, and the chance to see their experiment fly on board the International Spa
Paris, 13 June 2002 SUCCESS 2002 - an opportunity for students The competition winner will receive a one-year internship at ESA’s research and technology centre, ESTEC, in Noordwijk, The Netherlands...
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Parliament approves reports on ERA
Brussels, 13 June 2002 The European Parliament approved reports on strengthening and structuring the European research area (ERA) at its plenary session in Strasbourg on 12 July. Parliament, which...
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Belgium's comments on proposal for application of Euratom safeguards
Brussels, 13 June 2002 Proposal for a Council Decision approving a Commission Regulation on the application of Euratom safeguards. Cover note. Brussels, 5 June 2002 (12.06) (document 9630/02 ATO 70...
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Solar loops spring into view
Paris, 13 June 2002 Huge loops of very hot gas rising above the Sun's surface vibrate with enormous energy at times of solar storms. This is the latest surprise from ESA's flotilla of spacecraft -...