Brussels, 17 Oct 2003 An international conference on space cognition, scientific research and application will take place from 24 to November in Rome, Italy. The conference, which is a concluding...
Paris, 17 Oct 2003 The Galileo Joint Undertaking is officially issuing a first invitation to tender for the Galileo Concession. The invitation is published today in the Official Journal of the...
Paris, 17 Oct 2003 On 19 October 30 cars will be jostling for position at the start of the 7th World Solar Challenge in Darwin, Australia. After winning in 2001 with Nuna I, the Nuon Solar Team, from...
Paris, 17 Oct 2003 The Cervantes mission, with European Space Agency astronaut Pedro Duque, and the ISS Expedition 8 crew lifted off today in Soyuz TMA-3 on flight 7S to the International Space...
The Russian physicist being tried for selling secrets to China is to put academic freedom in the political spotlight by standing for election to the state parliament on a protest ticket, writes Nick...
Two senior members of the Portuguese government have resigned amid allegations that they abused their positions to secure a place at medical school for the foreign minister's daughter. Diana Martins...
Princeton University is fighting to keep an endowment worth more than $500 million (£300 million) after the donor demanded it be returned to his family's foundation. William Robertson, heir to a...
Two centuries of Russian academic excellence could be squandered in the rush to standardise higher education across Europe, academics have warned. Leaders of Russia's top universities voiced their...
Arnold Schwarzenegger was not the only winner in the California elections. Opponents of a proposal to prevent public universities from collecting information about the ethnic origins of individuals...
The proportion of the US population pursuing higher and further education is falling behind other industrialised countries, according to the Education Commission of the States. The non-partisan body...
Student complaints have prompted a Macedonian university to pulp a new politics textbook written by three of its professors because it described Nato and the US as the "world's leading terrorists"....
Plans to privatise Hungary's universities and higher education colleges have raised fears of job losses and a narrowing of the range of subjects on offer. The country's Trade Union of Higher...
After cosmonauts and astronauts come yuhangyuan . China launched its bid to become the third country to send a man into space on Wednesday. The Shenzhou 5 spacecraft carried a 38-year-old fighter...
Proposals to remove charity income from funding formulas bode ill for vital research, says Mark Walport This time last year charities were feeling rather upbeat about the future funding of university...
Entry decisions based on points are a minefield and will not work in an admissions system run on a shoestring A few years ago, at an Australian sandstone (read Russell Group) university, I was...