Brussels, 16 Jan 2004 An Agreement on Scientific and Technological Cooperation between the European Community and the European Atomic Energy Community, of the one part, and the Swiss Confederation,...
Brussels, 16 January 2004 Loyola de Palacio, European Commission Vice-President, has welcomed the latest statements by the USA that the European Union and the USA are on the verge of agreement on the...
Brussels, 16 Jan 2004 EU Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin has welcomed US plans for a new space exploration programme, and announced that the Commission, along with the European Space Agency (...
Brussels, 16 Jan 2004 European Space Agency (ESA) scientists at mission control in Darmstadt, Germany, are examining the first images and data to be sent back from the Mars Express orbiter. The...
Brussels, 16 Jan 2004 The coordinator of Ireland's Innovation Relay Centre (IRC), Jim Cuddy, has said that his top priorities for the Irish EU Presidency and beyond are to demonstrate the potential...
Brussels, 16 Jan 2004 The UK's food standards agency is seeking to commission research and survey work for programme areas that are designed to inform and support the formulation of policy. The...
Paris, 16 Jan 2004 This time next year, ESA's Huygens spaceprobe will be descending through the atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon, becoming the first spacecraft to land on a body in the outer Solar...
Charles Clarke has ordered funding chiefs to put the brakes on recruitment to degree courses in the run-up to the introduction of top-up fees. This week's official deadline for applications for...
Videotaping or recording interviews may be the only way to protect tutors against accusations of bias from failed students and their families, according to the master of the Cambridge college...
Peter Gregson, the 46-year-old deputy vice-chancellor of Southampton University, will be the next vice-chancellor of Queen's University Belfast. He will succeed Sir George Bain, vice-chancellor since...
Geoff Hall , former director of learning programmes at the Learning and Skills Council, has been appointed principal and chief executive of New College Nottingham. The University of Oxford has...
University vice-chancellors are engaged in a desperate battle to get the higher education bill through a "knife-edge" vote at its second reading. Universities UK is demanding unity from all member...
Science deans this week warned Charles Clarke, the education secretary, that allowing popular non-science degrees to charge lower fees than unpopular science courses could cause irreversible damage....
A former paratrooper who went from hating science at school to becoming a lecturer in quantum chemical dynamics says he would not have gone to university if top-up fees were in place. Keith Hughes,...
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