Brussels, 23 Apr 2004 The 2003 Commission communication on 'The role of universities in the Europe of knowledge', along with the launch of the new Erasmus Mundus programme and discussions at national...
Brussels, 23 Apr 2004 Euroscience has launched a questionnaire with the goal of determining why many EU countries are lagging behind the US in terms of technological performance and innovation within...
Brussels, 23 April 2004 Commission Regulation (EC) No 753/2004 of 22 April 2004 implementing Decision No 1608/2003/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards statistics on science...
Strasbourg, 23 April 2004 Draft recommendation to the Council of the European Union in complaint 2371/2003/GG. Strasbourg, 14 April 2004 Full text [...] THE DECISION 1 Allegedly unlawful refusal to...
Strasbourg, 23 April 2004 Draft recommendation to the European Commission in complaint 1986/2002/OV. Strasbourg, 31 March 2004 Full text [...] THE DECISION 1 The claim for reimbursement of the...
Universities need A-level marks to end inequalities Pressure is growing on ministers to order the release of individual pupils' A-level marks in the wake of research showing a widening gap between...
Edinburgh University's James Tait Black memorial prizes may lack the glamour and razzmatazz of the Man Booker or the Orange prizes for fiction, but they make up for it in prestige and longevity. The...
Going into higher education once meant leaving home and behaving badly, but a new survey paints a very different picture. Anna Fazackerley reports. The popular stereotype of the carefree student who...
The growing tendency of French students to study away from home rather than at their local university is putting pressure on student housing. Traditionally, students lived with their parents while...
The Coimbra group of Europe's 39 oldest universities is offering itself as a role model for the European higher education and research areas. At the close of a three-day meeting in Siena last week,...
Maths skills among many schoolteachers are "bordering on the shocking" and are exacerbating already serious problems facing universities in recruiting the next generation of science students and...
Modern dads are playing a greater role in stimulating their children when mothers return to work early, ensuring that they do not lag behind when they start school. Researchers have found no evidence...
The vice-chancellor of the University of New South Wales is to step down after two years in the job. Rory Hume last week resigned from his A$750,000 (£309,099)-a-year job after informing John Yu, the...
Six universities in the former Yugoslav republic of Serbia and Montenegro are facing possible closure after the government announced that their budgets would be cut by 70 per cent. The cuts would...
Mary Ayubi was one of the first students to be accepted by the Kabul Medical Institute. It was renovated in 2002 under a USAid-funded project by the Coalition Joint Civil-Military Operations Task...