Our monthly guide to some of the conferences taking place around the world In the past 200 years not everyone's attitude to domestic violence has evolved, discovers Harriet Swain What are your views...
Our monthly guide to some of the conferences taking place around the world JULY * Scientists from a range of specialisms including biology, communications theory and linguistics will meet in Salzburg...
Michael North talks to the dub poet whose Jamaican voice became a weapon in the fight for black rights in Britain Linton Kwesi Johnson may look a little incongruous in the lush parkland campus of...
Brussels, 28 Jun 2006 Today, the European Commission published its final evaluation (1) - following comments received from stakeholders (2) - on five years of the EU's Orphan Medicines Regulation (EC...
Brussels, 28 Jun 2006 Full text of Document 10374/06 Corrigendum 01 Suite of documents 10374/06 Subject: Proposal for a Decision of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the Seventh...
Strasbourg, 28 Jun 2006 In an own-initiative report, MEPs point out that Europe is still lagging behind the USA and Japan on growth, research and productivity. They propose ways to change this,...
Students allowed to set their own exam A lecturer who wants to engender trust and respect in his students has let them set their own final-year exam. They were also allowed to take notes into the...
Deadline: 15/03/2007
Pacemaker may avert epileptic seizures, say US researchers Scientists in America have developed a treatment for epilepsy which they say could help millions of people with the condition. Researchers...
Brussels, Jun 2006 FINAL A6-0218/2006 22.6.2006 SECOND REPORT with recommendations to the Commission on protecting European healthcare workers from blood borne infections due to needlestick injuries...
Brussels, June 2006 40th Council Meeting - Environment. Luxembourg, June 2006 Provisional version Following the agreement on the EU's financial framework for 2007-2013, the Council reached a...
Washington, Jun 2006 For the first time, glaciologists have combined and compared sets of ancient climate records trapped in ice cores from the South American Andes and the Asian Himalayas to see how...
Brussels, Jun 2006 Full text of Document 2341/06 Brussels, 26 June Tel./Fax: +32.2.281.7362 / 7363 / Fax: +32.2.281.6511 Subject: Research and Joint Research/Atomic Questions Working Party Date:...
'Studentification' report labels latest urban development Student unions are increasingly appointing volunteering and community officers in a bid to improve relations in cities with ballooning...
Deadline: 07/09/2006