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Parents get advice on how to beat the system The Economist magazine has given middle-class parents a blueprint on how to get their children into the best universities in Blair's Britain. The magazine...
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Galileo (Extract from: Provisional Version, Transport Council, 7 October)
Brussels, 07 Oct 2004 Overall state of play The Council was informed by Vice President of the Commission Loyola de Palacio on current developments concerning the European Global Navigation Satellite...
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National Academy of Sciences Asks U.S. Delegation Oppose Proposed Cloning Research Ban at the UN
Washington, 07 Oct 2004 In a letter to Secretary of State Colin Powell, National Academy of Sciences President Bruce Alberts asked the U.S. delegation to the United Nations to vote against a proposed...
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France set to import embryonic stem cells
Brussels, 07 Oct 2004 Presenting new national measures regulating stem cell research, Research Minister François d'Aubert and Health Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy announced that France is to allow...
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Agenda of the Research Working Party, 11 October
Brussels, 07 Oct 2004 Full text of Document 3590/04 1. Commission communication "Science and technology, the key to Europe's future - Guidelines for future European Union policy to support research...
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Planning and managing events in the fields of research and technological development
Brussels, 07 Oct 2004 The Commission's Research DG has published a call for tenders for companies interested in planning and managing events in the fields of research and technological development....
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Conference on European Research Council (ERC)
Brussels, 07 Oct 2004 UNESCO is hosting a conference on the European Research Council (ERC) in Paris, France, on 25 and 26 October. Organised by the Initiative for Science in Europe (ISE), the...
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Freedom on the front line... for now
To criticise the Sudanese regime is to risk arrest, torture and even death. However, reports Chris Bunting, academics are still able to speak their minds in the classroom. On September 10, Shamsuldin...
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Is the party of protest any closer to power?
Post Hartlepool, the Liberal Democrats may be feeling on the up. But Don MacIver urges caution. After a run of by-election successes and an improved position in the opinion polls, the Liberal...
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Place for books, bytes and e-sites
Gone are the days when the library was just for quiet study. Anna Fazackerley looks at the revolution taking place at the British Library and in UK universities. Tradition has it that a librarian...
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Adapt to survive the next chapter
Picture this scenario. You head off to your university library for an intensive day wading through a stack of journals or books relevant to your research; yet when you arrive you discover not the...
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The price of pro$perity is often war
Why do economies collapse? Harold James notes that global conflict can cause major economic slumps - but that could change as warfare grows cheaper. Below, Simon Targett ponders lessons from the...
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Fading powers and rising stars
"It's the economy, stupid!" This sentence, scribbled on the notice board in Bill Clinton's campaign office, became the soundbite of the 1992 US presidential election. It described the view that the...
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The paradigms of people power
The global anticapitalist movement links millions of ordinary people worldwide and has no historical precedent. So why are so few anthropologists involved? asks Nancy Lindisfarne. The third European...
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