Brussels, 15 May 2006 Work on new type of telescope that will be used to detect the most elusive and mysterious of subatomic particles - neutrinos - has started the design phase, thanks to funding...
London, 15 May 2006 There are many commercial opportunities in space today was the message at the first ever space finance conference today. UK space experts and city financiers met today to discuss...
Brussels, 12 May 2006 Europe’s regions have a key role to play in the creation of a knowledge society in Europe, and the ability of the EU to reach its target of investing 3% of GDP in...
Brussels, 12 May 2006 COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE COUNCIL AND THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT DELIVERING ON THE MODERNISATION AGENDA FOR UNIVERSITIES: EDUCATION, RESEARCH AND INNOVATION Full...
Brussels, 12 May 2006 Full text of Document 1701/1/06 Revision 01 1. Proposal for a Council decision on the signing of the Cooperation Agreement on a Civil Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)...
Brussels, 12 May 2006 Full text of Document 9268/06 Suite of documents 9268/06 1. Adoption of the agenda 2. Proposals for Council Regulations - on organic production and labelling of organic products...
Brussels, 12 May 2006 Full text of Document 1751/06 1. Delivering on the modernisation agenda for universities: Education, Research and Innovation - Presentation of Commission communication 2. A.O.B...
Chinese university sacks dean over 'faked' research A Chinese university has dismissed one of its deans for allegedly faking research results in computer chip technology. Jiaotong University, in...
Academics face a "painful and nasty" summer term after union leaders this week rejected a 12.6 per cent pay offer and vice-chancellors hit back with moves to dock the salaries of those taking part in...
A British academic has sold more than 100 million copies of his English textbook, equivalent to twice the global sales of Dan Brown's blockbuster The Da Vinci Code . But unlike Mr Brown, who became a...
Lin Norton's own Damascene conversion to fully engaged learning informs her pedagogical research. Is higher education becoming a pseudo-experience? Lin Norton, professor of pedagogical research at...
* Oxford University has appointed Ewan McKendrick , professor of English private law, its next pro vice-chancellor for research, academic services and university collections. He succeeds Nigel Thrift...
A London School of Economics academic who told prospective students at an open day that they might be better off studying at London Metropolitan University is to resign. Erik Ringmar, a senior...
Science must explain its work to public or risk regulation, says Royal Society. Scientists may find themselves constrained by a new regulatory body if they do not think harder about how they present...
A mathematician at Stanford University is waging war on terrorists - using algebra to help unravel al-Qaeda networks, writes Anna Fazackerley. Jonathan Farley, a science fellow at Stanford's Centre...