Brussels, 18 Jun 2004 Within the scope of the forthcoming Dutch EU Presidency, and with the support of the Commission, an international conference entitled 'Brain gain: the instruments' will take...
Brussels, 18 Jun 2004 An international conference on the impact of genomics on society will take place from 30 August to 1 September in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Genomics Momentum 2004 will...
Brussels, 18 Jun 2004 An international conference on artificial intelligence (AI) and neural networks will take place in Çanakkale, Turkey, from 14 to 16 July. The goal of the conference is to...
Paris, 18 Jun 2004 Photograph ESA's Rosetta comet-chaser has photographed itself in space at a distance of 35 million kilometres from Earth. The CIVA imaging camera system on the Philae lander...
Brussels, 18 Jun 2004 The European Commission has published a call for tenders for the monitoring and evaluation of information society technologies (IST) research: results and impact indicators. The...
One of the world's most prestigious academic publishers has been accused of promoting the use of "dirty tricks" in a document advising authors how to gain a competitive advantage over their rivals. A...
Genetic testing has revealed that most of Britain's supposedly indigenous red squirrels are probably recent European interlopers that have left their native cousins clinging on in isolated...
Terry eagleton on the very english love affair with the essay Also Founding father: volume one of a new biography of the anthropologist Malinowski reviewed by Nigel Barley Focus: Economics David Bell...
The cost to the public purse of offering courses through the Government's failed e-university runs to £44,000 per student, ministers admitted this week. Baroness Ashton of Upholland, Labour education...
The Learning and Skills Council has announced that Chris Banks, chief executive of food and drinks firm Bigthoughts and a member of the national LSC, has been appointed its chairman. He will be paid...
An academic who stripped to his underwear and donned a hood outside a Labour Party office in protest against the Iraq War, has been elected to the city council in the constituency of Charles Clarke,...
Newspaper tycoon Sir Anthony O'Reilly has helped to provide Queen's University Belfast with $7 million (£4 million) towards a £40 million library. The funding includes a personal donation of £2...
Charles Clarke, the Education Secretary, has announced plans to introduce a streamlined "light-touch" inspection system for further education next year. He told the Learning and Skills Development...
Academics make up four of the six members of a panel appointed by Tessa Jowell, the Culture Secretary, to assist with the review of the BBC's Royal Charter. They are Sir Alan Budd, provost of Queen's...
Lecturers' union Natfhe is preparing to strike at London Metropolitan University after 67 per cent of lecturers voted in favour of strike, and 81 per cent in favour of action short of a strike, on a...