Taking the union line
Recent press coverage has stated that I support a graduate tax for students earning more than £25,000 (News, THES , April 19). For the record, I do not support it and never have supported it,...
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Laurie Taylor
A litany in honour of the research assessment exercise (prompted by the report of the House of Commons science and technology committee) GLORY BE to the RAE! And to those who now live...
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Leader: Time to address postcode route to information
The hunt is on for a better measure of who goes to university than postcodes. Postcodes are used for all kinds of purposes other than sorting the mail, one of those unintended consequences that make...
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Leader: Creativity czar should consider dual funding
British designers, artists, musicians and writers have looked with envy at the billions spent recently on science. Many of their subjects could have been funded for the price of one of the research...
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Institute for TransUranium Elements (ITU) trains EU enlargement countries on combating illicit trafficking of nuclear material
Karlsruhe, Germany, 01 May 2002 Following the first session of the joint training workshop in January 2002 at Institute for TransUranium Elements (ITU), from 15th-19th April more than 20...
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Today's news
New roborat moves at click of a mouse Scientists have turned living rats into remote-controlled, pleasure-driven robots that can be guided up ladders through ruins and into minefields at the click of...
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Adoption by COST officials of research projects, report of meeting on 7-8 March
Brussels, 1 May 2002 147th meeting of the COST Senior Officials Committee held in Brussels on 7/8 March 2002. Summary of conclusions.European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical...
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Update 12:00
Medical schools braced for jobs cull London medical schools are set to axe jobs despite government plans for the biggest single expansion in student doctors in a generation. Guy’s, King’s and St...
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Update: 12:35
Accusations fly in MP's report on ILA fiasco MPs are disturbed by the "serious failings" of government officials in setting up and running the ill-fated Individual Learning Account scheme that...
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Today's news
Frankenstein was an eccentric Scot The inspiration for Frankenstein – portrayed by Mary Shelley as a southern German and by film-makers as a mad scientist – was an eccentric Scottish doctor living in...
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Prodi commends universities for teaching management studies
Brussels, 30 April 2002 Commission President Romano Prodi has endorsed the teaching of business subjects in Europe's top universities in a speech at the UK's Oxford University. Mr Prodi spoke, at the...
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OECD Report Shows Stronger Interaction Between Industry and Science are Key to Innovation and Economic Growth
Paris, 30 April 2002 An OECD report demonstrates that stronger interactions between science and industry underpin growth in a knowledge economy. Drawing on a broad range of quantitative and...
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Seven EU-Switzerland agreements on free movement, transport, trade and scientific cooperation published and in force on 1 June 2002 (links)
Brussels, 30 April 2002 Decision of the Council, and of the Commission as regards the Agreement on Scientific and Technological Cooperation, of 4 April 2002 on the conclusion of seven Agreements with...
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Cleaner water: EU Research means better industrial water management
Brussels, 30 April 2002 At a media briefing at the Institut d'Estudis Catalans, Barcelona, on 2 May the Commission will report on three successful EU initiatives which have improved the management of...
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High level forum on innovation and provision of medicines
Brussels, 30 April 2002 A framework for action to enhance pharmaceutical industry competitiveness in line with public health and social goals will be presented and debated at a press conference and...