Brussels, 19 Jan 2005 At a time when in many EU countries large numbers of teachers are close to retirement, Europe must focus on attracting high quality teachers in order to achieve the Lisbon...
Brussels, 19 Jan 2005 A workshop on finance in the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) will take place in Cambridge, the UK, on 22 February. FP6 operates on financial principles based on the EU's...
Brussels, 19 Jan 2005 The European Research and Innovation fair will be held in Paris, France, from 3 to 5 June. The aim of the fair is to bring together researchers, public and private institutions...
Brussels, 19 Jan 2005 The TED programme (towards electronic democracy), established by the European Science Foundation to promote the development of e-democracy and e-government systems, will host a...
Brussels, 19 Jan 2005 The European Commission has published a call for proposals for Marie Curie conferences and training courses under the mobility activity of the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6)....
Paris, 19 Jan 2005 The ESA funded telemedicine project called I-DISCARE has been put into action to help victims along the coastal areas ravaged by last month's tsunami. It is being used to connect...
Degree of affluence helps university hopefuls Parents who want their children to go to university should live in a detached house in a salubrious neighbourhood, read The Daily Telegraph , avoid...
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Oxbridge 'snub' to intake targets Private school pupils are expected to take a greater share of Oxford and Cambridge places this year, it emerged yesterday. The findings suggest the elite...
Women are poor at science, says Harvard president The president of Harvard University has provoked a furore by arguing that men outperform women in maths and sciences because of biological difference...
Brussels, 18 Jan 2005 Full text of Document 341/04 Suite of documents 341/04 The President, Prof. Francesco FEDI, welcomed the participants from 33 COST Member States to the meeting1, in particular...
Brussels, 18 Jan 2005 While the role of genetic factors in a person's susceptibility to addiction has been recognised for some time, the complexity of the condition and the influence of other...
Brussels, 18 Jan 2005 The emerging field of bioinformatics, which uses computers in biological research, especially gene sequencing, has become increasingly important following the completion of...
Brussels, 18 Jan 2005 Fuel cell buses developed within the CUTE project, funded under the EU's Fifth Framework Programme, have been operating for over a year in ten European cities, as well as Perth...
Brussels, 18 Jan 2005 Media Lab Europe (MLE), the research and innovation laboratory in the field of digital technologies set up by the Irish government and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...