Laurie Taylor Column
TEACHING: ON THE FRONT LINE What is your experience of teaching? The THES asks teachers how they manage. Name? Dr Piercemuller. Age? Pardon? Age? A long way off early retirement. Job? Reader...
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Laurie Taylor Column
TEACHING: ON THE FRONT LINE What is your experience of teaching? The THES asks teachers how they manage. Name? Dr Piercemuller. Age? Pardon? Age? A long way off early retirement. Job? Reader...
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Leader: Vocation is not just foundation
Tony Blair and Charles Clarke, the education secretary, put some welcome flesh on the bones of the government's higher education policy this week. For those with doubts about top-up fees, it is...
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Leader: Gap rule may backfire
One aspect of the fees debate that is not addressed in the higher education bill or its accompanying student-support package is the position of gap-year students. Ministers had let it be known that...
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Leader: Vocation is not just foundation
Tony Blair and Charles Clarke, the education secretary, put some welcome flesh on the bones of the government's higher education policy this week. For those with doubts about top-up fees, it is...
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Leader: Gap rule may backfire
One aspect of the fees debate that is not addressed in the higher education bill or its accompanying student-support package is the position of gap-year students. Ministers had let it be known that...
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European Commission hosts inaugural event to celebrate the launch of the world's first all IPv6 research network
Brussels, 14th January 2004 The European Union has been instrumental in giving political and financial support to the rapid take up of the new Internet Protocol IPv6. This next generation of Internet...
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Ample Scope for Life in the Milky Way, New Research Suggests
Brussels, 14 Jan 2004 A tenth of the stars in our galaxy are in a 'habitable zone' that – like a galactic city in which we live in the outer suburbs – is teeming with planets that may support life,...
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Today's news
Brown backs Blair's plan for top-up fees Chancellor Gordon Brown yesterday offered his emphatic support for Tony Blair's legislation on university fees. In a setback to the revolt against the bill,...
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IE: Future Reactor Design
Brussels, 14 Jan 2004 Petten (NL): Following a request by EC-EURATOM and US-DOE, the Institute for Energy and Argon National Laboratory started an initiative to collaborate in the area of new future...
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Busquin targets twofold increase of EU research budget
Brussels, 14 Jan 2004 Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin has confirmed that he intends to call on the EU's Member States to double the Community budget for research in an enlarged Union. Mr...
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Council calls for research to enhance civil protection
Brussels, 14 Jan 2004 The Environment Council adopted a resolution without debate at the end of December, calling on the EU to promote research into the reduction of natural and technological risks....
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UK government advisors identify adverse environmental effects in GM crop trial
Brussels, 14 Jan 2004 The advisory committee on releases to the environment (ACRE), which guides UK government policy on commercialising genetically modified (GM) crops, has warned that two out of...
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Assessment of Eureka projects highlights contribution to realisation of ERA
Brussels, 14 Jan 2004 Eureka, the European network for market oriented research and development (R&D), has published a report on the impact of its research projects, highlighting the work...
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Technology transfer workshop scheduled for Grenoble
Brussels, 14 Jan 2004 A technology transfer workshop will take place at the European synchrotron radiation facility in Grenoble, France on 2 February. The workshop will focus on three themes:...