Brussels, 17th November 2005 Ladies and Gentlemen, Welcome to the European Commission and welcome to the first Innovation Day organised by DG Competition. I am pleased to see so many of you here...
Brussels, 17 Nov 2005 SECOND WORKING DOCUMENT on a proposal for a decision of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the seventh framework programme of the European Community for...
Brussels, 17 Nov 2005 Science and Research Commissioner Janez Potocnik has warned that Europe's leading role in global science and technology initiatives such as ITER can only be maintained with...
Brussels, 17 Nov 2005 The European Commission is to boost the development of novel processes for municipal wastewater treatment by funding two new projects, 'AMEDEUS' and 'EUROMBRA', under the '...
Brussels, 17 Nov 2005 Europe must 'stop hiding behind its social model' and instead concentrate on creating the right conditions for entrepreneurship to flourish at the local and regional level, a...
Brussels, 17 Nov 2005 The annual workshop of the specific targeted research project SWIFT-WFD will take place in Berlin, Germany, on 5 and 6 December. The FP6 project SWIFT-WFD, 'screening methods...
Brussels, 17 November 2005 The Council held an exchange of views on bringing Europe closer to its young citizens, covering the following issues suggested by the Presidency: - principal concerns of...
Brussels, 17 November 2005 The Council held an exchange of views on the joint interim report 2006 on the "Education and training 2010" work programme, especially regarding the following issue...
Brussels, 17 November 2005 Full text of Document 14111/05 Suite of documents 14111/05 15 November 2005 "A" ITEM NOTE from: Special Committee on Agriculture on: 14 November 2005 to: Council No. prev....
Legal threat to admissions tests The day when a parent takes a university to court over its decision not to admit their son or daughter is not far off, admissions officers were yesterday warned....
"Staff-to-student ratios in higher education are now worse than in schools" - The Times Higher , November 11. From: The Director, Teaching Quality Unit I am writing to let you know that this...
Despite being born of anti-Semitism, a system that looks beyond exam marks is the best route to true student diversity One of the best features of US universities is the admissions system - yet in...
Do universities waste individuals' time and taxpayers' money when they recruit students who later drop out? The message behind current official performance indicators and funding arrangements is that...
Only one message will have reached most of the public from Sir Andrew Foster's report on further education: that a significant (but unspecified) proportion of colleges are failing and should be taken...
So Sir Howard Newby thinks that the introduction of top-up fees will turn students into consumers and lecturers into service providers ("'Customer' students to call tune", November 11). While his...