Brussels, 20 June 2002 Peer review status report. "I" item note from General Secretariat of the Council to COREPER. Brussels, 5 June 2002 (document 9601/02 LIMITE ATO 68 ELARG 197; No. prev. doc.:...
Brussels, 20 June 2002 New guidelines aimed at reducing mother-to-child transmission of HIV are emerging from European research. The guidelines for the treatment of various groups of HIV-positive...
Brussels, 20 June 2002 The US National science foundation (NSF) is encouraging US research centres to find European partners for collaboration by offering additional funding to US research centres...
Brussels, 20 June 2002 PROMETEUS, a European network dedicated to identifying and dissemination knowledge and best practice in the field of technology enabled learning, will be holding a discussion...
Brussels, 20 June 2002 An international workshop on e-learning platforms between Europe and Asia will take place in Teheran, the Republic of Iran, from October 29 to 31 2002. The EU aims to boost the...
FE lecturers defect to schools Lecturers are quitting the further education sector in favour of "better terms and conditions" offered in schools, Labour's Gordon Prentice, MP for Pendle, told the...
Earth has close shave from large asteroid An asteroid the size of a football pitch and large enough to raze a major city missed the Earth by just 75,000 miles last Friday, a distance considered to be...
Fighting between rebels and government forces has spread to the campus of the National University of Congo. Classes have been suspended and students and staff evacuated.
The ESSEC Business School and the Guanghua School of Management at Beijing University (Beida) have set up a partnership that will lead to student and faculty exchanges, and a double degree for MBA...
Leicester University and police have hailed a 40-year-old bouncer a hero after he stopped a gunman from entering a campus club with 700 people inside. The head doorman (pictured) - who wants to be...
Higher education guru Lord Dearing has been appointed chair of the trustees of a think-tank being set up by the English funding council. The Higher Education Policy Institute will be headed by Bahram...
Ministers will receive a draft development plan for the University of the NHS in August, and a final version will go out for a 14-week consultation in September, Bob Fryer, chief executive of the...
The Royal Society of Edinburgh hopes to boost the number of science students by offering secondary teachers placements in business and research. The society will award up to four teaching fellowships...
Students from non-traditional backgrounds are most disadvantaged by student finance arrangements, the European Access Network's annual conference heard yesterday. Geoffrey Copland, vice-chancellor of...
The new Health Professions Council, the regulatory body responsible for 12 health professions from paramedics to physiotherapists, has launched a consultation programme. Health professionals, the...