Paris, 13 June 2002 Mr. Tegnér was unanimously elected at the 159th meeting of the ESA Council, held at the Canadian Space Agency in Montreal on 12 and 13 June. He will take over from Mr. Alain...
Brussels, 13 June 2002 Proposal for a Council Decision approving a Commission Regulation on the application of Euratom safeguards. Cover note. Brussels, 4 June 2002 (11.06) (document 9602/02 ATO 69...
Strasbourg, 13 June 2002 Verbatim report of proceedings, 13 June 2002 (Part A) Question no 16 by Robert J.E. Evans (H-0442/02) Subject: Aircraft passengers and deep vein thrombosis Answer The...
Brussels, 13 June 2002 The fifth Virtual Reality (VR) World Congress will take place in Paris, France on 9 and 10 September 2002. The congress, with the theme 'Systems for visionaries,' is timed to...
Scottish FE colleges pledg ed extra £10m Scotland's enterprise and lifelong learning minister, Iain Gray, has pledged an extra £10 million to help further education colleges buy the latest equipment...
Science in schools gets £1m boost The first wave of schools that will specialise in science to help reverse the decline in the number of pupils taking physics and chemistry at A level has been...
A team of scientists led by experts from the British BTG Nanotechnology Network has been granted €2 million (£1.28 million) by the European Union to develop a nanoscale biological switch. Six...
Linguistics staff at Manchester University are trying to save Tofa, a language spoken by just 40 ageing Siberian reindeer hunters, by translating computer games into it. Tofa could be lost in 50...
The Student Loans Company has asked us to clarify a point in our story ( THES , June 7) about loan payments at Stirling University. Loans to other non-Scottish UK students will be paid on the...
Universities that cannot provide supervisors from departments with research assessment exercise ratings of 3a or above will get no cash for PhD students under Higher Education Funding Council for...
Bristol Medical School, one of the oldest in the country, is in financial difficulties after its poor result in the research assessment exercise resulted in a loss of £1.2 million. The school teaches...
Forget all-night parties and binge drinking. The happiest students live in their family home and drink modestly, according to a survey of 21,000 undergraduates. The survey, thought to be the largest...
An immediate investment of more than £5 billion to modernise teaching buildings, libraries and information technology provision is vital, according to a report published yesterday by Universities UK...
Lecturers' leaders this week accused vice-chancellors of squandering scarce resources desperately needed for staff pay as the first round of talks began over the trade unions' demands for a 15 per...
Further education union leaders forecast an "autumn of discontent" for colleges this week after support staff threatened to join lecturers in strikes over pay. An increased offer from employers of 2....