University finances are improving, bu the figures reveal a wide disparity between the haves and the have-nots. Full tables below. University incomes Institutions 2002-03 £1,000s 2001-02 £1,000s %...
Brussels, 22 Jul 2004 European ministers meeting in the Agriculture and Fisheries Council on 19 July were not able to resolve their differences over granting market authorisation for food and food...
22 Jul 2004 Virtually everything we do has been profoundly affected by the Information Revolution: How we travel, how we shop, how we communicate, how we do business. Computers, telecommunications...
Brussels, 22 July 2004 Within the €3.6 million EU research project PROMESS1 (PROfiles across MEditerranean Sedimentary Systems), with an EU contribution of €2.7 million, European scientists...
Brussels, 22 July 2004 A team of European researchers plans to perfect techniques for producing antibodies and vaccines, obtained from plants, to prevent and treat major human diseases, such as AIDS...
Brussels, 22 Jul 2004 Up to 70 per cent of the European coastal shelf is made up of permeable sand, and as well as producing some memorable beaches, this sand also represents a valuable resource...
Brussels, 22 Jul 2004 A launch event for two new Grid projects under the information society technologies (IST) section of the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) will take place in Brussels from 15 to...
Brussels, 22 Jul 2004 The world conference of science journalists will take place in Montréal, Canada, from 4 to 8 October. The aims of the conference are to: - enhance the story-telling skills that...
Brussels, 22 Jul 2004 The EU funded EQUAL project has published a call for tenders for laboratories to carry out molecular diagnostics in areas such as clinical chemistry, human genetics, haematology...
Brussels, 22 Jul 2004 Full summary and link to full opinion on Topas 19/2 Full summary and link to full opinion on maize lines Bt176, MON 810 and T25 European Food Safety Authority -- EFSA
Merger creates an academic cash giant Manchester will become Britain's first half-billion pound university in terms of academic earnings. The merger of Manchester University and the University of...
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This week's competition, in which you must identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel that marked a decline in reputation, according to the author's contemporaries: "London....
The Oxford English Literary History, Volume 12