Brussels, 21 June 2002 Biomass will play a crucial roll in the achievement of a 100 per cent sustainable energy supply, the Dutch Minister for economic affairs, Anne-Marie Jorritsma-Lebbink said on...
Brussels, 21 June 2002 The Committee of the Regions is to host an exhibition on e-learning during its plenary session from 3 to 4 July. Presented in association with Cisco Systems, the interactive...
Paris, 21 June 2002 The spacecraft Stardust, which is on its way to meet the Comet Wild 2 in January 2004, last week helped ESA to carry out final testing of the Agency’s first deep-space ground...
Morris confirms tuition fees here to stay Education Secretary Estelle Morris has confirmed that tuition fees are here to stay. She told ITV: "If we want 50 per cent of our people under 30 to go to...
Hodge admits higher education is failing the poor Margaret Hodge has admitted that Labour's idea of widening access to higher education has failed, so leaving untouched the major cause of inequality...
The financial plight of the UK's students has been laid bare in thousands of letters sent to prime minister Tony Blair. More than 3,000 letters handed into Downing Street in February have been...
An internal review of Manchester University's department of English and American studies has concluded that it is "dysfunctional" and racked by hostility, sexism, bullying and harassment. The damning...
Oxford University will open its £60 million Chemical Research Laboratory today with almost no funding from UK industry. Graham Richards, chairman of chemistry, is expected to be highly critical of...
The Royal Society was recalled by MPs this week to explain events leading up to the resignation of Bridget Ogilivie from the Committee on the Public Understanding of Science. The House of Commons...
Turkey's Uludag University theology department has published a book on Satanism after a spate of suicides by Turkish youths who were linked to devil worship.
French premier Jean-Pierre Raffarin has enlisted a female former astronaut as minister for research and new technologies in his new government. Claudie Haigneré, 45, has been on board two space...
One of Britain's top teacher education centres is considering abandoning training because it is no longer cost-effective. This would deal a blow to the government's drive to ease the teacher...
Plans for the largest interdisciplinary research conference in Europe are being drawn up to highlight the continent's academic cutting edge. Euroscience 2004, to be held in Stockholm in two years'...
More than 800 years of scholarly tradition will end when the last Oxbridge course to insist on Latin fluency begins admitting students who have not learned the language. Cambridge University's...
Universities are to be ordered to clamp down on vice-chancellors' pay following an investigation triggered by The THES . Payoffs for poorly performing vice-chancellors will be abolished along with...