Australia rejects Kyoto Protocol
Brussels, 06 June 2002 Australian Prime Minister John Howard announced on 5 June that his country will join the USA in refusing to ratify the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, despite signing it just...
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New road transport advisory committee to advise Commission on strategic priorities
Brussels, 06 June 2002 The European Commission will receive advice on strategic priorities in road transport from the new EU Road transport research advisory committee, the committee's vice-chairman...
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Meeting the challenges of providing clean energy: Commission looks into clean alternatives to fossil fuels
Ispra, Italy, 06 June 2002 Photovoltaics is a science that examines light-electricity conversion. Conversion of solar energy carried by photons is transformed by solar cells into direct-current...
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ESA's Microgravity Science Glovebox is launched to the ISS
Paris, 06 June 2002 This morning, ESA's Microgravity Science Glovebox (MSG) was successfully launched from Cape Canaveral inside the logistics module MPLM-Leonardo, aboard a US Space Shuttle - STS-...
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Update 12:15
Thinktank calls for 'socially worthwhile' student jobs Students should be paid to work in schools and the NHS rather than in bars and fast-food outlets, according to the UK’s leading centre-left...
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Today's news
Welsh Assembly to abolish tuition fees Students from Wales will no longer have to pay up-front tuition fees under the Welsh Assembly’s long-term plans. Wales will abandon fees even if Westminster...
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Report calls for federal Wales
Supporters of the federal University of Wales have welcomed the final report of an independent study that concludes that the university should expand to take in all Welsh higher education...
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Students cook up enterprise project
Students at Heriot-Watt University have come up with an idea for the ultimate kitchen utensil - a hand-held computer that produces recipes using whatever ingredients are about at the time. The first-...
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Rio de Janeiro
The proportion of Brazilian university students from families in the top 10 per cent income bracket has risen from 45.6 per cent in 1992 to 48 per cent in 1999. This is despite increasing grant...
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Melbourne
RMIT University has received A$26 million (£10 million) from a trust founded by Charles Feeney, a US billionaire and long-standing supporter of Sinn Fein. The donation will help establish the first...
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Brussels
The European Commission is seeking comments on its proposed fi160 million (£103 million) Era-Net programme, which will pay for the systematic exchange of information and good practice in the European...
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India curbs moonlighting teachers
India's university and college teachers have been told to spend at least five hours every weekday on campus or face disciplinary action. They must be available for any help that students might need...
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Riots over party in SA
South Africa's education authorities have criticised students at the University of the North who caused R4 million (£281,000) damage while rioting over the institution's refusal to fund a party....
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NZ swells campus coffers by £140m
New Zealand's coalition government has frozen student fees for the third year but has found an additional NZ$400 million (£140 million) in funding over the next four financial years for university...
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Tuition fees may keep poor out of medical schools
A Canadian study could prove that rising tuition fees keep low-income students out of medical school. The Canadian Medical Association Journal has published a paper that compares medical students...