Brussels, 09 Oct 2003 The European Commission is inviting expressions of interest from stakeholders that wish to participate in the European hydrogen and fuel technology platform. Expressions of...
Brussels, 09 Oct 2003 A symposium on innovation technology and nanotechnologies is being held under the auspices of the Italian Presidency in Brussels on 3 November. The event will bring together...
Paris, 09 Oct 2003 ESA is now planning a mission that can detect moons around planets outside our Solar System, those orbiting other stars. Everyone knows our Moon: lovers stare at it, wolves howl at...
Washington, 09 Oct 2003 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration October 7, 2003 2003 ANTARCTIC OZONE ‘HOLE' NEAR RECORD SIZE; COLD TEMPERATURES PLAY MAJOR ROLE This year's Antarctic ozone "...
Israel's seven research universities this year face a deficit of almost half a billion shekels (Pounds 66 million) because of the deteriorating security situation. Some 800 million shekels have been...
Some US universities are looking at providing a service under which students can download music from the internet for a fee in response to a music industry crackdown on illegal downloading of...
First-year law students at Prague's Charles University are having to study in double shifts because nearly 170 additional students who failed the entrance exam were admitted after errors in the...
An Australian study has found that students who work part time perform better in examinations than students without jobs. The findings counter growing concerns about the rising number of students...
The army has entered the escalating row between Turkey's government and university rectors over plans to reform higher education. Eight rectors have met the head of land forces, General Aytac Yalman...
A committee looking into the future of higher education in Norway is so split that it has delayed giving its report to the minister of education by a month. The ten-member committee, which is chaired...
The weakened stock market that has hit university pension and endowment funds in Canada has been cited as the principal reason for the reduction in the credit rating of the University of Toronto....
Labour's conference has convinced Ian Gibson that the government won't listen to reason There may have been some inspired rhetoric that set off a few feel-good sparks at last week's Labour Party...
Plain English was a bigcasualty of the Kelly affair. The secret service and Blair's advisers need to be taught a lesson I seem to remember that when I was a kid the primary aim of English lessons in...
As the Conservatives gathered in Blackpool for their party conference, they indulged in an incentive scheme to win the student vote. Shadow education secretary Damian Green encouraged students to...
Meanwhile, at last week's Labour Party Conference, vice-chancellors flaunting the fact they were no longer pushovers suffered something of a setback at their fringe meeting. Universities UK delegates...