Paris, 15 Jan 2004 A novel non-invasive system for cancer treatment is being developed with technology from the European space industry. The first target for this new treatment, which could be ready...
Paris, 15 Jan 2004 Early this morning, ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain met with members of the press at ESA Headquarters in Paris to review the events of 2003 and to outline plans for 2004...
Brussels, 15 Jan 2004 Full text of Document 155/04 RESEARCH WORKING PARTY 1. Commission White Paper on European Space Policy - Discussions with a view to a Council Resolution, including priorities...
Brussels, 15 Jan 2004 Full text DG Research http://europa.eu.int/comm/dgs/research/i ndex_en.html Item source: http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/confe rences/2004/biology/programme_en.html
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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The percentage of pupils gaining five or more GCSEs at grades A* to C has climbed 1.3 per cent to 52.9 per cent, David Miliband, schools minister, said this week. In specialist schools 56.7 per cent...
The first Iraqis to study at British universities under the prestigious Chevening scholarship scheme since 1993 arrived in the UK this week to pursue specialist training in oil industry-related...