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Universities 'only teaching students four hours a week' Leading universities have been accused of letting down students by offering as little as four hours teaching a week for some courses. The lack...
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Trade mark appeal on "Bioknowledge" for database on biological information failed on ground of descriptiveness: judgment (T-387/03)
Luxembourg, 20 January 2005 T-387/03, Proteome Inc. v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) Judgment of the Court of First Instance (Third Chamber) on 19...
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Commission report on the number of animals used for experimental and other scientific purposes in the EU member states (link)
Brussels, 20 Jan 2005 REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE COUNCIL AND THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT FOURTH REPORT ON THE STATISTICS ON THE NUMBER OF ANIMALS USED FOR EXPERIMENTAL AND OTHER SCIENTIFIC...
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New report calls on UK government to divert military R&D funds to wider issues
Brussels, 20 Jan 2005 Military issues have a disproportionate influence on how science and technology funding is allocated in the UK, says a report published on 19 January. The report 'Soldiers in...
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UK researchers develop inkjets that can print human cells
Brussels, 20 Jan 2005 The treatment of burn victims or patients with severe disfigurements is set to be revolutionised following the development by scientists in the UK of an inkjet that can print...
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Managing port operations with graphics
Brussels, 20 Jan 2005 A Eureka project has developed a graphic screen enabling port managers and administrators to plan port operations, visualising the impact of one activity on another. Ports deal...
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Austrian 'University of Excellence' to have own budget, promises minister
Brussels, 20 Jan 2005 Austria is currently in the process of finalising plans for a new University of Excellence that will offer graduate training, and whose impact will be observable internationally...
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The future of EU research and opportunities for new Member States
Brussels, 20 Jan 2005 A conference on the future of European Union research and development policies and opportunities for the new Member States will take place in Warsaw, Poland, on 4 February. The...
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Web-based project management for FP6 projects
Brussels, 20 Jan 2005 A workshop on understanding the principles of electronic collaboration and dissemination tools that can be used to facilitate the implementation of Sixth Framework Programme (...
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Many happy returns?
Family planning could play a decisive role in whether or not an infant will go to university in later life. Children born in September are 20 per cent more likely to enter higher education than those...
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Bristol: A tale of two cities
For an insight into the size of the task of ensuring that universities open their doors to students from poor backgrounds, the man charged with spearheading the initiative need look no further than...
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Class rifts eclipsed by sex divide
The Nineties saw women enter university in record numbers - and they gain a far greater proportion of degrees than men. Should entrance requirements for male students now be lowered to correct this...
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Aspirations: moving up
A £500 bursary will greet 17-year-old Ahmed Bana if he fulfils his aim of securing a place to study medicine. But the cash will not come from the university or the Government, but from his school,...
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Sheffield: two extremes
Brightside was the area of Sheffield hit hardest by the decline of the steel industry in the 1980s. It has high levels of second and third-generation unemployment, and the 1981 Census found that it...
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Bright peaks and blighted valleys
Divisions in educational opportunities are found at every scale of the map, but the most stark are often between young people just streets apart, writes Lee Elliot Major A few hundred metres can make...