Brussels, 31 Oct 2003 An international action group has expressed its concern following the largest environmental release to date of a product created using nanotechnology. A solution intended to...
Brussels, 31 Oct 2003 German Research Minister Edelgard Bulmahn has pledged to inject 135 million euro into a national genome research network despite the 'difficult budgetary situation in Europe'....
Brussels, 31 Oct 2003 The Foundation Ingeniero Jorge Juan is organising a conference on Galileo maritime applications, to take place from 6 to 8 November in Ferrol, Spain. The event will feature...
Paris, 31 Oct 2003 A violent earthquake that cracked highways in Alaska set the sky shaking as well as the land, an ESA-backed study has confirmed. This fact could help improve earthquake detection...
UK companies still lag behind their international competitors in research and development spending, according to the latest figures from the Department of Trade and Industry. And there are signs that...
Giant belches from the deep could have claimed the lives of many unfortunate mariners. Scientists have found that a single bubble of methane erupting from the sea-bed could swallow a ship and send it...
The proposals to change the way teaching is funded at English universities will cost science £22 million, according to pressure group Save British Science. The plans, developed by the Higher...
Britain must act to avert the crisis facing Islamic and Middle Eastern studies, politicians were told this week, writes Alison Goddard. Minority interests vital to the nation are inadvertently being...
Men go to university to play hard whereas women go to study hard, so it's not surprising that males are now being outshone on campus as well as at school. Alison Goddard reports on the latest...
Nicole Harris, 26 Job advertised, THES, January 24 2003 JISC Programme Manager The Joint Information Systems Committee, based at King's College London, was seeking a programme manager for its...
You may know your subject inside out, but to teach well you must engage with the student, argues Alan Mortiboys. You can get into a lot of trouble by using the word "emotions" in some academic...
What is your experience of teaching? Pat Leon asks teachers how they manage. Name : Paul May Age : 39 Job : Senior lecturer, Bristol University School of Chemistry. Qualifications : BSc Chemistry (...
Funding council officials were accused of gambling with the international reputation of British higher education this week by confirming plans to force all higher education institutions to "wash...
Exeter University has been ordered to pay almost £63,000 to a PhD student who abandoned his research into assisted suicides after a dispute with his departmental ethics committee over the...
The former head of Nasa is locked in a battle with the trustees of Boston University over his appointment as its president, writes Steve Farrar. Daniel Goldin, who was Nasa administrator for nine...