Brussels, 29 Jan 2004 The UK working group charged with carrying out a study on the likely developments in nanotechnology has heard calls for the creation of a 'space' where scientists, government...
Brussels, 29 Jan 2004 The European molecular biology organisation (EMBO) has launched a new online life sciences mobility consultancy (LSMC), with help from the European Commission's research...
Brussels, 29 Jan 2004 A two day programme of exhibitions and seminars focussing on innovations in the jewellery industry will take place on 3 and 4 March in Birmingham, UK. JewelMed 2004 is organised...
Paris, 29 Jan 2004 Preparing for the arrival of the first European Automated Transfer Vehicle. Europe's scientific utilisation of the International Space Station (ISS) took an important step forward...
Ministers face renewed pressure for changes to key elements of the higher education bill despite their dramatic Commons victory this week. Rebel Labour MPs were confident of overturning the five-vote...
Virginia Woolf is being welcomed back to Bloomsbury by British scholars in the final chapter of the literary giant's academic rehabilitation in the UK. Some 300 delegates will visit London this June...
Prominent rebel Austin Mitchell admitted to a certain sense of guilt on Wednesday morning after deciding a few minutes before the vote on the higher education bill to back the government over...
The trustees of the Commonwealth Institute have announced that Christopher Colclough , professor and director of the global monitoring report on Education for All, based at the United Nations...
Rebel Labour MPs vowed to continue their fight against the higher education bill in the next stage as the rush to get on to the committee began. Ian Gibson, a key rebel leader, said: "We will be...
The impact of graduate debt on recruitment to academia must be examined urgently, says the Association of University Teachers. Charles Clarke, education secretary, this week announced a review of the...
Tony Blair should perhaps have recruited David Beckham, Brad Pitt and Justin Timberlake to sell the idea of top-up fees to students, if a survey by Leicester University psychologists is anything to...
The Treasury will pay for many of the reforms to student support proposed by the government, leaving universities £1 billion better off as a result of the changes. During the second reading of the...
WHERE TO NOW? The electoral costs of top-up fees and the next steps in the battle of the bill Also Human origins: A review of The Neanderthal's Necklace and Out of Eden Books focus Computing;...
The Student Awards Agency for Scotland and Scottish University for Industry are to run the new individual learning account scheme north of the border. It will replace the scheme that was withdrawn...
The University of Central England has entered into a partnership with Beijing Jiotang University. Chinese students will spend half of their four-year course in Birmingham, graduating with a UCE...