Brussels, 03 Jun 2004 PRIORITY THEME: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT SUB-PRIORITY: SUSTAINABLE ENERGY SYSTEM Research activities having an impact in the short and medium term In the frame of the Third Call...
Brussels, 03 Jun 2004 Scientists and editors of scientific journals are being urged to pay particular attention to the quality of statistics used in research papers, after a new study revealed...
Brussels, 03 Jun 2004 Based on the results of the Commission funded Qual-e-learning project, a conference will be held in Strasbourg, France, on 21 and 22 September aimed at analysing the conditions...
Brussels, 03 Jun 2004 An international Workshop on the Development and Function of the Reproductive Organs will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark from 12 to 15 June. The workshop will address the more...
Paris, 03 Jun 2004 A new international event, the Universal Forum of Culture, has just opened in Barcelona, Spain. The three main themes are Cultural Diversity, Sustainable Development and Conditions...
Paris, 03 Jun 2004 ESA's Earth Observation Programme Board has just decided which of the six Earth Explorer candidate missions, presented earlier in April at the User Consultation Meeting, will be...
Paris, 03 Jun 2004 On 8 June 2004, you will be able to witness an astronomical event no living person has seen, a transit of Venus. This happens when the planet moves directly between the Earth and...
Paris, 03 Jun 2004 The Invitation to Tender documentation corresponding to the European Commission's Sixth Framework Programme (6FP) has been released today. The objectives of this call include the...
University chiefs are turning their backs on this year's staff pay deal just months after signing up to the biggest shake-up of academic careers for 40 years, the largest lecturers' union claimed...
The Government should be wary of using the tax system to collect deferred tuition fees for students in England, soon-to-be published research in Australia suggests. The research shows that Australian...
Sunday marks the 60th anniversary of D-Day, when 150,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy in what marked the beginning of the end of the Second World War in Europe. Befitting such an...
* Christine Jones, chief executive of Herefordshire and Worcestershire's Chamber of Commerce and Business Link, chair of Malvern Hills Science Park and a director of the Rural Regeneration Zone, has...
In a bid to sweeten the HE bill, universities will not be penalised for failing to widen access. Phil Baty reports The planned access regulator for higher education will have no power to penalise...
The editor of London Student , Europe's biggest-circulation student newspaper, was this week forced to defend a decision to publish a 285-word article that used the word "fu ck" 77 times. Lila Allen...
Universities, unions and students have reiterated concerns that proposed reforms to university admissions practices fail to address the key issue of increasing intakes of pupils from poor backgrounds...