Brussels, 01 Sep 2004 Some 68 science academies are lobbying the United Nations to reject a US bid to impose a worldwide ban on all types of human cloning. The Inter Academy Panel, the umbrella body...
Brussels, 01 Sep 2004 The Confederation of Business Industries (CBI) in Scotland has asked the government to invest a further 185 million GBP (4 million euro) in research and development (R&D...
Brussels, 01 Sep 2004 A call for tenders for support with the preparation of indicators, analysis and statistical issues relating to the conception and preparation of science and technology...
Brussels, 01 Sep 2004 The EU must identify obstacles to global collaboration and address them, urged non-European scientists at ESOF 2004. The scientists - from Japan, the US and South Africa - who...
Brussels, 01 Sep 2004 A workshop on the safety of meat products, aiming to promote safer and environmentally friendly production methods and technologies, will take place in Wroclaw, Poland, on and...
Brussels, 01 Sep 2004 The first international conference on the integration of renewable energy sources and distributed energy resources will take place in Brussels, Belgium, from 1 to 3 December....
Brussels, 01 Sep 2004 As Philippe Busquin prepares to leave what he calls 'the best job in my life so far', he has been reflecting on his last five years as EU Research Commissioner. He spoke to...
Brussels, 01 Sep 2004 The Scottish Centre for Genomic Technology and Informatics (SCGTI) at Edinburgh University is set to receive 4.5 million GBP (6.6 million euro) to accelerate the development of...
Brussels, 01 Sep 2004 Creating research poles of excellence at European level is a necessity if France and Europe want to play a significant role in the world economy, says Philippe Camus, CEO of the...
Britons attack US cloning ban bid Top British scientists are backing an international campaign to stop the United States obtaining a worldwide ban on all types of human cloning. The Royal Society is...
London lecturers reject new contracts Lecturers at London Metropolitan University will today demonstrate against contracts that unions claim compromise academic freedom and threaten the jobs of...
Scots physics pool to challenge Oxbridge Scottish universities have begun to create a single physics "superdepartment" to compete with the scientific might of Oxbridge and Imperial, in a move that...
Universities are to get extra information about applicants' A-level performance to help admissions staff choose between the growing numbers of candidates with top grades, admissions chief Anthony...
Middlesex University's policy for selecting students with disabilities has been criticised by its own equal opportunities chief amid concerns about the legality of the admissions procedures. If a...
Will the model for costing science damage the research it seeks to protect? Anna Fazackerley reports A government drive for universities to recoup the real costs of research has escaped the attention...