Brussels, 5 February 2004 Council and Commission Decision of 22 December 2003 on the signature on behalf of the European Community and of the European Atomic Energy Community of the Agreement on...
Brussels, 05 Feb 2004 Full text of Document 365/04 1. Commission communication on an Action Plan on GMES - Global Monitoring for the Environment and Security - Presentation by the Commission (doc. to...
Paris, 05 Feb 2004 An important milestone for ESA's Living Planet Programme is to be reached this spring when it will be decided which of the six candidate Earth Explorer missions are to be selected...
Paris, 05 Feb 2004 Successful meeting of the ESA Council in Paris yesterday: the Member States of the European Space Agency have agreed to release the funds needed to put Ariane 5 back on track and...
A new group of five leading universities is bidding for an increased share of any extra cash in the government's summer spending review. The group, which calls itself the G5, warns that without more...
Robin Butler, master of University College, Oxford, and newly appointed chair of the inquiry into prewar intelligence on Iraq, is better known for his long tenure as a civil servant under...
University College Worcester has appointed: Howard Cox , professor of international business history and co-director of the Centre for International Business Studies at London South Bank University,...
Oxford University confirmed this week that it is building a facility for laboratory animals, underlining determination in the science community that animal research will continue despite protests by...
The Scottish Liberal Democrats are playing down fears of a split with their Labour partners in the Scottish Executive over the future of the graduate endowment. Just before the Commons vote on top-up...
The University of Abertay Dundee is helping to rebuild the economy of a Lithuanian town that until recently had never appeared on the map because it housed a secret nuclear power station, writes Olga...
Don go breaking my heart The personal cost of the academic long-distance relationship. ALSO Prize guys P. W. Anderson reviews a book on the wisdom of fellow physics Nobel laureate Richard Feynman;...
The THES 's giveaway book on Machiavelli proved so desirable that one enterprising reader sold their copy for £10 on the internet auction site eBay. Bidding for the book, A Very Short Introduction to...
Most further education is satisfactory or better, although nearly one in ten colleges that has been inspected is "inadequate", according to Ofsted's annual report for 2002-03, which was published...
Lecturers at Leicester College began an all-out strike this week to protest against the introduction of a staff contract that, they say, has not been negotiated with union leaders. Lecturers' union...
Cuts to research into education must be halted, the British Educational Research Association has said. It has begun a letter-writing campaign targeting MPs with lower-rated education research...