Brussels, 07 May 2004 Global markets confront research and development with new challenges in introducing new technologies, often reflected at a later stage in standardisation activities. A new...
Brussels, 07 May 2004 A team of UK researchers has carried out the first ever survey of the presence of plastic fragments in oceans, and has found widespread evidence of this new form of marine...
Brussels, 07 May 2004 German Minister for Education and Research, Edelgard Bulmahn, has launched her country's 'apprenticeship offensive 2004', saying that she sees particular potential for...
Brussels, 07 May 2004 The Fifth Framework Programme (FP5) project ADVISOR (integrated evaluation for sustainable river basin governance) will host a workshop in Seville, Spain, on 5 July. The project...
Brussels, 07 May 2004 A European technology brokerage event, organised by the Innovation Relay Centre for Great Eastern France, in close collaboration with the IRC nano and micro thematic groups...
Brussels, 07 May 2004 The German-Swiss Innovation Relay Centre (IRC), Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum, will hold an international conference on the next business generation in Stuttgart, Germany, on 17 and...
Paris, 07 May 2004 Images These images were taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA's Mars Express of the Acheron Fossae region, an area of intensive tectonic (continental '...
Munich, 07 May 2004 Case G 0002/02 "New DNA molecules" "A DNA molecule for expression of bile salt-stimulated lipase (BSSL)" Decision Keywords International applications - priorities from India...
A plan to create a psychological garden at next year's Chelsea Flower Show has sown seeds of discontent within the psychology profession's national body. The British Psychological Society's project,...
The founder of one of the most successful university spinoff companies who donated £100,000 to the Labour Party and found himself at the centre of a row over a government contract has been appointed...
The list of new working peers that emerged last weekend included several names linked to higher education. Anthony Giddens , former director of the London School of Economics, will sit on the Labour...
Improved tax breaks should be offered to those making donations to universities and other charities, a government task force on fundraising will propose next week. The long-awaited report on how the...
University academic staff will receive well over £100 million in back pay following the Association of University Teachers' vote to accept the employers' revised pay offer. More than 84 per cent of...
Lecturers' leaders have attacked the "outrage and injustice" of plans to raise the pensionable age for academics, writes Phil Baty. John Wilkin, president-elect of lecturers' union Natfhe, said this...
The power of role models in attracting young people to careers in science will be explored by the Royal Society in a national survey. The online survey, launched this week by the RS and funded by the...