Strasbourg, 12 November 2004 The European Ombudsman, P. Nikiforos Diamandouros, has criticised the European Commission for refusing to reimburse costs for secretarial services provided by a Dutch...
Brussels, 12 Nov 2004 Online catalogue DG Research http:///europa.eu.int/comm/dgs/research/i ndex_en.html
Brussels, 12 Nov 2004 An international research project, part funded by the EU's Fifth Framework Programme (FP5), has developed a computerised prediction system that can forewarn cruise ship pilots...
Brussels, 12 Nov 2004 Drinking regular cups of tea may help improve memory and could be used to treat Alzheimer's, according to researchers at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne in the UK. The...
Brussels, 12 Nov 2004 A new Danish 'farm-to-fork' strategy has called on the country's parliament to investigate the role biotechnology could play in designing better tasting and safer foods. The ten...
Paris, 12 Nov 2004 On 9 November 2004 the Ariane-5 booster's solid rocket motor was test fired in the Booster Engine Test Stand at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. This test is part of ESA's...
Paris, 12 Nov 2004 Photos A new tool based on satellite data shows trends in the way Europeans use our landscape. Seen from the ground these changes appear gradual, but viewed from above they are...
Paris, 12 Nov 2004 Photos The Cat's Eye Nebula (NGC 6543), seen in detail by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, is one of the most complex planetary nebulae ever seen in space. Although the rings...
Scottish research into primates has found a home in Edinburgh Zoo thanks to £1.6 million from the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council. Researchers from Abertay, Edinburgh, St Andrews and...
Edwin Morgan, Glasgow's Poet Laureate and Scotland's first National Poet, has donated his personal collection of 70 paintings, mostly by eminent Scottish artists, to Glasgow University, where he is...
Harold Pinter's plays are not missing from the British Library archive of theatrical holdings, as suggested by Sheffield University researchers in an article in The Times Higher , October 29....
Nearly a third of foundation degree courses run by further education colleges are struggling to fill places, and more than one in eight has been axed, a national survey has found. The findings of the...
Most college heads remain undecided about top-up fees, a conference will hear his week, amid concerns that the further education sector may lose out when fees are introduced for higher education...
Not so long ago semesters were heralded as the future of the academic calendar, enabling universities to offer a more flexible year-round learning enivironment for the modern student. But already it...
Quality watchdogs are to deliver another major blow to the federal University of Wales, concluding that they have only "limited confidence" in the standards of its degrees, The Times Higher has...