A key government justification for top-up fees will be undermined by next week's British Social Attitudes survey, which will show that taxpayers want public cash to be spent on university students...
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...
Brussels, 4 December 2003 Introduction I am delighted to welcome you all to this conference on risk perception, science, public debate and policy making. We have assembled an impressive line up of...
Bruxelles, le 4 décembre 2003 La Commission informera les Ministres sur le déroulement du programme Galileo, à savoir: les négociations avec les Etats-Unis (des progrès ont été très récemment...
Brussels, 04 Dec 2003 A special meeting of the Competitiveness Council on 3 December failed to deliver a political agreement on EU funding for human embryonic stem cell research. It is now highly...
Brussels, 4 December 2003 European Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin will visit Japan from December 5-9 to participate in the G8 Carnegie Group conference, the meeting of G8 research ministers,...
Brussels, 04 Dec 2003 A Eureka project which brought together researchers from 25 countries, as well as the Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC), has provided new information on the causes and...
Brussels, 04 Dec 2003 The Agriculture Committee of the European Parliament has adopted an own initiative report calling on the Commission to make farmers of genetically modified (GM) crops liable for...
Brussels, 04 Dec 2003 An AllChemE seminar, entitled 'science and society - some reflections', will take place in the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, on 16 December. The guest speaker will...
Brussels, 04 Dec 2003 An international symposium on medical research funding, entitled 'vision for the 21st century' will take place in Stockholm, Sweden, on 14 January. The event will provide...