Letter: Monetary mistake
To imply that large increases in the remuneration paid to vice-chancellors in their final year of service will generate a similarly large increase in their prospective pensions (Leader, THES ,...
Search
-
-
EU member states figure high in new environmental sustainability index
Brussels, 13 February 2002 Finland has gained first place in a new environmental benchmarking report presented by Colombia and Yale Universities at the annual meeting of the World economic forum in...
-
Global warming will lengthen days, say Belgian researchers
Brussels, 13 February 2002 Belgian scientists have announced that global warming, caused by increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, will slow the Earth's rotation and result in longer days for...
-
CORDIS launches redesigned French research and technology service
Brussels, 13 February 2002 CORDIS, the European Commission's Research and Development Information Service, is launching a redesigned service dedicated to national and EU-funded research and...
-
Fellows for industry - virtual brokerage event
Brussels, 13 February 2002 'Fellows for industry', an initiative supported by the European Commission which facilitates the access of EU academics to SMEs (small and medium sized enterprises), is...
-
New catalogue to aid CRAFT partner searches
Brussels, 13 February 2002 'Partners for life', the European life sciences network for SMEs (small and medium sized enterprises), has prepared a new catalogue for finding partners and submitting...
-
Latest news
PM congratulates Welsh on reintroduction of grants Tony Blair congratulated the Welsh Assembly on the reintroduction of means-tested student grants during prime minister's question time yesterday. He...
-
EU proposes to extend its cooperation with Mediterranean universities
Brussels, 12 February 2002 The European Commission has adopted a proposal to extend its university cooperation programme, TEMPUS, to a number of Mediterranean countries. The programme is to be...
-
TRAIN-IT sets workshop, courses to help IT startups write business plans
Brussels, 12 February 2002 TRAIN-IT, which provides information to European entrepreneurs working in information society technologies (IST) on writing business plans, and is funded by the Fifth...
-
From today's UK papers
Plan to tax students but restore grants for poor Tony Blair is on the verge of restoring maintenance grants for poorer students in England as part of an overhaul of the student funding system. But...
-
Growth of e-learning is not accompanied by confidence of users
Brussels, 12 February 2002 The commercial success of e-learning techniques has not been accompanied by the same optimism by the teachers and educational staff who use it, according to two new surveys...
-
eEurope: Taking stock of results and setting priorities for the Barcelona European Council
Brussels, 12 February 2002 The European Commission has adopted the 2002 "eEurope Benchmarking Report", a communication providing a detailed snapshot of the development of the European Information...
-
Latest news
BNP free to recruit on Greenwich campus Greenwich University says it is powerless to prevent members of the British National Party from recruiting on its campus. Following reports that a Greenwich...
-
Cooperation in Scientific and Technical Research: COST debates its future (29 January), report of meeting on 13-14 December (link)
Brussels, 12 February 2002 European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research - COST Secretariat. Note: Certain aspects of COST. Brussels, 8 February 2002 (document COST 211/02)....
-
International organisation to help developing country researchers with intellectual property issues
Brussels, 11 February 2002 An international organisation is to be set up later this year to assist governments and health researchers in the developing world to negotiate better deals for drug access...