Brussels, 05 Dec 2003 The UK's NanoMicroClub has announced a series of networking events that will take place across the UK in 2004. The NanoMicroClub is a new initiative designed to provide...
Chancellor backs PM on top-up fees The prime minister's hopes of heading off a backbench rebellion on university top-up fees received a boost yesterday when supporters of...
Brussels, 05 Dec 2003 The Council took note of the information given by Commissioner Loyola de Palacio on a number of issues relating to the GALILEO programme, particularly on the state of the...
Brussels, 05 Dec 2003 'When I started this job, everybody asked me to ensure that decisions were made on the basis of scientific evidence. If we drift away from that, we're at sea, and I don't know...
Brussels, 05 Dec 2003 The Commission has decided not to follow the scientific advice of the international council for the exploration of the sea (ICES) in their proposals for fishing...
Brussels, 05 Dec 2003 Full text of Document 14946/03 Suite of documents 14946/03 No. Cion prop.: 5763/03 ATO 10 - COM(2003) 18 final Subject: Adoption of a Council Directive on the control of high...
Brussels, 05 Dec 2003 EurOCEAN 2004, the European Conference on Marine Science and Ocean Technology, will take place in Galway, Ireland on 10-13 May 2004. The successor to MAST-DAYS and EurOCEAN...
Brussels, 05 Dec 2003 Top solar power stakeholders from research and industry have come together to form a European Photovoltaics Research Advisory Council, following a European Commission initiative...
Brussels, 05 Dec 2003 The UK's NanoMicroClub has announced a series of networking events that will take place across the UK in 2004. The NanoMicroClub is a new initiative designed to provide...
Universities are facing a 10 billion financial black hole that is sure to grow if the top-up fee legislation falls, vice-chancellors warned this week. Vice-chancellors' lobby Universities UK will ask...
A new £8 million bursary scheme will underline Cambridge's commitment to poor students, but the university needs top-up fees to be able to afford it, vice-chancellor Alison Richard has said....
The Office for Fair Access will fail to ensure justice for students from less well-off backgrounds, the National Union of Students said this week. Responding to the consultation by the Admissions to...
England's top universities should leave the state sector and become private institutions if the government really wants them to compete with the best in America, according to a Scottish principal....
Raising income-tax levels for the highest earners is a better way to solve higher education's funding crisis than charging fees, according to an "alternative" white paper from the Cambridge...
Blunkett leads top-up fees revolt Tony Blair was hit by a cabinet revolt against university top-up fees yesterday. Home secretary David Blunkett led ministers demanding that the prime minister find...