Laurie Taylor column
Some PhD vivas are "held behind closed doors and examiners can behave as they like" - Susan Bassnett, The THES, January 10. Ah, Mr Maull, welcome to your PhD viva. I'm Professor Lapping, your...
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Leader: If graduates must pay more, ensure it's fair all round
Most academics - like the vast majority of students and their parents - would prefer higher education to be free, funded from general taxation. They would like the government's strategy paper to...
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Alan Ryan
By the time you read this, Charles Clarke may have decided how universities are to be funded and how students are to pay for their courses. It looks as though some version of Nicholas Barr's long...
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Why are there so few women in industrial research? Conference, Brussels, 23 January 2003
Brussels, 15 Jan 2003 Brussels, 23 January 2002 Whilst women make up more than 50% of all graduates in higher education in the European Union, they represent only 15% of researchers in industry....
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Unanswered questions mean new target must be found for Rosetta
Brussels, 15 Jan 2003 Europe's one billion euro mission to land a spacecraft on the Wirtanen comet has been abandoned, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced on 15 January. The project was thrown...
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ESA payloads feature on Space Shuttle research mission
Paris, 15 Jan 2003 European scientists will be 'turning off' the effects of gravity during the STS-107 Space Shuttle research mission this month in order to gain a better understanding of processes...
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The CRUMPET project - User-friendly mobile services personalised for tourism
Brussels, 15 Jan 2003 A recently completed EU funded project has developed a series of tourist related electronic services. CRUMPET, creation of user-friendly mobile services personalised for tourism...
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Study calls for a third generation innovation policy
Brussels, 15 Jan 2003 An innovation policy study written for the Commission's Enterprise DG argues the case for a 'third generation innovation policy' that recognises the 'centrality of innovation to...
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Today's news
Landslide vote for Clinton in Oxford Bill Clinton has emerged as the overwhelming favourite among Oxford undergraduates to succeed the late Roy Jenkins as chancellor of the university. Despite his...
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Commission welcomes debate on EU funding for defence research
Brussels, 14 Jan 2003 The Commission has welcomed comments from the Greek Presidency suggesting that the EU should fund defence research projects, and has called for further debate on the issue....
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InfoTechPharma 2003 conference
Brussels, 14 Jan 2003 The Informa life sciences group is hosting the 2003 InfoTechPharma conference in London from 10 to 13 February. The event is a unique world meeting for information technology...
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Less water yields better crops according to EU project results
Brussels, 14 Jan 2003 Drought regions in southern Europe can now achieve healthy crop yields with less irrigation water thanks to irrigation scheduling programs recently developed by a EU funded...
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EuropaBio meets with Commissioners to discuss GM defacto moratorium
Brussels, 14 Jan 2003 Members of EuropaBio, the European Association for Bioindustries, met on 13 January 2003 with EU Commissioners for Environment, Agriculture and Health, Margot Wallström, Franz...
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Biobiz workshops
Brussels, 14 Jan 2003 Biobiz is organising a series of training workshops throughout Europe to help scientists launch biotechnology start-ups. Biobiz is an initiative sponsored by Eurobiobiz and the...
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Changing face of scientific journals
Brussels, 14 Jan 2003 A seminal report on the impact of new information communication technologies (ICT) on scientific publishing puts the spotlight on a subject already facing serious challenges -...