Hostility to the science in social sciences will harm the disciplines and diminish their role in public life, writes Max Steuer When I sat down to write The Scientific Study of Society some ten years...
Margaret Alexander should be retired. Instead, Olga Wojtas hears, she set up a project to promote grey power The director of Queen Margaret University College's Centre for the Older Person's Agenda...
It's exam time, but not as we know it. Ted Prince has a killer idea that could catch on Publicity, like love, is a many splendoured thing. It comes in many different guises. At the University of the...
In the second of our series on democracy around the world, Huw Richards explores the political portents for a post-Castro Cuba Well-informed Miami sources announced the imminent fall of Fidel Castro...
Merging two London institutes to form a centre for the study of the Americas will allow scholars to explore novel comparisons and connections across a hemisphere, says Huw Richards Little is more...
Cambridge calls for improved A levels Cambridge University challenged the government yesterday to reform the "unreliable" A-level system in an attempt to ensure a fairer admissions process for...
Brussels, 2nd June 2004 Yesterday, the GALILEO Joint Undertaking launched the second call for proposals for research activities dedicated to GALILEO, with an overall budget of €67 million. The aim is...
Brussels, 02 Jun 2004 Bergen, Norway, - 28 May 2004 At the invitation of the Norwegian government, the COST Committee of Senior Officials (CSO) held its 159th meeting in Bergen on -28 May 2004. The...
Lisbonne, 31 mai 2004 Monsieur le Président de la République, Mesdames et Messieurs, C’est un grand plaisir et un honneur pour moi d’être parmi vous aujourd’hui. Le titre même de cette conférence «...
Brussels, 02 Jun 2004 The French government has announced its decision to allow new field trials of genetically modified (GM) sweetcorn in eight test sites across the country. The Minister for...
Brussels, 02 Jun 2004 Scientists have used a genetically modified (GM) virus to target cancerous cells while leaving healthy cells uninfected, potentially opening the way for highly selective viral...
Brussels, 02 Jun 2004 The European Investment Bank (EIB) is to support research and development (R&D) in Finnish industrial technology with a loan of 135 million euro. The loan will be...
Europe's Rosetta spacecraft, currently three months into its ten-year, 7 billion kilometre pursuit of Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko, has successfully completed its first scientific mission by taking...
Brussels, 02 Jun 2004 An information day on understanding the principles of financial management in the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) will take place in Brussels, Belgium, on 15 July. The event...
Brussels, 02 Jun 2004 The Cambridge MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Institute is organising a conference on 'Evaluating research and science based activities in the public and private...