Update: 13:10
UUK supports rich-pay-more policy University chiefs have given their clearest indication yet that they favour higher tuition fees for students. Baroness Warwick, chief executive of Universities UK,...
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Access to confidential data for scientific statistical purposes: Commission Regulation 831/2002
Brussels, 21 May 2002 Commission Regulation (EC) No 831/2002 of 17 May 2002 implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 322/97 on Community Statistics, concerning access to confidential data for...
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Fusing art, science and history - a retrospective of Gregor Mendel's work
Brussels, 21 May 2002 'The Genius of Genetics, a celebration of Gregor Mendel through science and art' honours the life and work of an Augustinian friar whose experiments with peas in the 1860s...
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New online discussion forum to boost FP6 networking for European researchers
Brussels, 21 May 2002 A new online discussion forum has been launched to boost networking between research centres, scientific organisations and small businesses in preparation for the Sixth...
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New ESA initiative to fund SME satcom innovations
Paris, 21 May 2002 ESA PR 34-2002. The European Space Agency (ESA) today launched a second and expanded round of funding for innovative R&D initiatives in satellite communications (satcom)...
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Unusual views of the Sun
Paris, 21 May 2002 For centuries, we have worshipped it and wondered at it, but it's only now that we are getting a really good look at it. Although you can't gaze at the Sun with the naked eye,...
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European research set to improve under ERA, but more business involvement still needed, says OECD representative
Brussels, 21 May 2002 The structure proposed for the next Framework programme of European research (FP6), incorporating the European research area (ERA), will benefit European research but the most...
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Update: 12:45
75% of Earth's surface damaged by 2030 More than 70 per cent of the Earth's land surface could be affected by the impacts of roads, mining, cities and other infrastructure developments in the next 30...
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Today's news
Science graduates 'too poor to carry on research' Thirty leading British scientists, including four Nobel laureates, are calling on the government to halt the "brain drain" of bright young science...
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Latest research news
Scientist Stephen Jay Gould dies Scientist Stephen Jay Gould, a leading evolutionary theorist at Harvard and science populiser, has died of cancer aged 60 in New York. (Guardian, Financial Times)...
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Today's news
Cuts mean universities risk loss of 1,400 jobs Universities are axing at least 1,400 jobs after a raft of poor budget settlements and falls in student numbers on some courses. (Guardian) UN experts...
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Update 12:20
Umist 'now bankrupt', says local AUT The University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology has astonished staff by announcing 120 job cuts as a part of measures to deal with a £3.8 million...
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European Group on Ethics: Commission answers parliamentary questions
Strasbourg, 17 May 2002 Verbatim proceedings of Parliament, 16 May 2002, Part 1. Question no 75 by David Robert Bowe (H-03/02) Subject: Work of the European Group on Ethics How important does the...
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Commission appeases ethics concerns with list of areas not to be funded in FP6
Brussels, 17 May 2002 Recognising concerns among the European Parliament and some Member States on ethical issues in conjunction with the next Framework programme, FP6, the Commission has issued a...
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Lithuania's Ignalina nuclear power plant: Commission answers parliamentary question
Strasbourg, 17 May 2002 Verbatim proceedings of Parliament, 16 May 2002, Part 1. Question no 40 by Gary Titley (H-03 3/02) Subject: Power plant in Ignalina In its report on the financial perspective...