As the Labour Party prepares for its annual conference Huw Richards asks what the ingredients are for good leadership. "The problem of just what was meant by 'a good government' lay at the very heart...
What do dons do at 65? Scuba diving and zipping around in a Jag, for starters. Chris Bunting tries to keep up. Jim Godfrey and his wife, Marlene, are living the good life. It is not an extravagant...
In America, you don't have to be a straight-A student to win a scholarship. Stephen Phillips surveys some of the more offbeat awards. Chicago's Loyola University has an unusual quandary. The 13,000-...
Providing evidence of atrocities drives Margaret Cox to excavate mass graves despite being very squeamish, says Jennifer Wallace. Ten years ago, an archaeological team was sent to a Central American...
An unprecedented alliance of university heads is gearing up for a fresh revolt against the 2008 research assessment exercise. Vice-chancellors believe they were duped into agreeing to the plans for...
London's reputation as a knowledge capital is well earned but we must ensure equal access, insists Ken Livingstone. London has always been a beacon of knowledge and progress. Its universities have...
'Duped' v-cs plot RAE revolt An unprecedented alliance of university heads is gearing up for a fresh revolt against the 2008 research assessment exercise. Vice-chancellors believe they were duped...
Brussels, 22 Sep 2004 Janez Potocnik, the Commissioner designate for Science and Research under the new Barroso Commission, has responded to a questionnaire prepared by MEPs in order to provide an...
Brussels, 22 Sep 2004 Full text of Document 3291/04 1. GALILEO - Negotiation directives concerning a cooperation agreement with Ukraine Doc. 12104/04 TRANS 7 MAR 152 AVIATION 160 RECH 162 W. Doc....
Brussels, 22 Sep 2004 Full text of Document 12502/04 Suite of documents 12502/04 PROVISIONAL AGENDA for: 2605th meeting of the COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION (COMPETITIVENESS - Internal Market,...
Brussels, 22 Sep 2004 Ramon Marimon, the principal author of the mid-term evaluation on the new instruments introduced under the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6), met with the new Research...
Brussels, 22 Sep 2004 German athlete Wojtek Czyz broke the Paralympic record for the 100 metres in the T42 category at the Athens Paralympics on 21 September and used space technology to do so. He is...
Brussels, 22 Sep 2004 A conference to present the first results of the EU funded Nanoroadmap (NRM) will take place in Rome, Italy, on 4 and 5 November. NRM began in January 2004 and is funded under...
Brussels, 22 Sep 2004 The UK Research Office (UKRO) will hold an information day on the EU's Marie Curie Actions in Liverpool, the UK, on 25 October. The day will provide an outline of the Marie...
Brussels, 22 Sep 2004 The European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) has published a call for tenders for research on the development of a global technical regulation for non-road mobile...