Brussels, 28 March 2002 The European Commission has announced it will contribute 1.6 million euro to a cyber tracker monitoring programme for 30 protected areas in Africa and Latin America. The...
Paris, 28 March 2002 A major new health check on the Earth got under way on 1 March, when the European Space Agency’s Envisat satellite was launched by an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s spaceport in...
Gunther von Hagens Professor of anatomy, Dalian Medical University, China, and inventor of plastination Representatives of the British anatomical establishment have accused my exhibition Body Worlds...
APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS Commission for Racial Equality Jagdish Gundara , UNESCO chair in international studies and teacher education and head of the international centre for intercultural studies...
£20m mall unveiled by Queen The Queen was this afternoon opening the £20 million Medway mall project being pioneered by Greenwich and Kent universities at Chatham. The eventual aim is to create a...
Debt worries force students to opt for OU More young people are choosing to study at the Open University rather than traditional universities because of fear of debt. One in 12...
It is not an exaggeration to describe César Milstein's contribution to science and medicine as the most important immunological advance of the century. His discovery of the method to produce...
In the 1860s, John Ruskin wrote: "That great foul city of London - rattling, growling, smoking, stinking - ghastly heap of fermenting brickwork, pouring out poison at every pore..." But the image of...
The future may spring a nasty surprise on hay fever sufferers and create ecological havoc in the plant world, writes Steve Farrar. Scientists have found evidence that rising concentrations of carbon...
Young scientists have told the House of Commons science and technology select committee how low salaries, lasting student debts and a poor public image of science are turning them off academic...
Researchers in medical diagnostics have a new organisation to help them exploit their research and bring it to patients. Diagnox, an Oxford-based project, has received a £400,000 biotechnology...
Germany will have to defend restrictions imposed by some of its regions on foreign postgraduate exchange students before the European Court of Justice. The European Commission said the German federal...
Finland is considering an overhaul of the way polytechnics are funded, with a shift away from student numbers as the sole criterion. A working group has proposed that only 61 per cent of the funding...
Four of the Irish republic's seven universities are likely to introduce a new marking scheme after a study showed that Irish students were marked harder than their counterparts in the United Kingdom...
The head of France's university quality body has said that Europe's proposed higher education area cannot operate effectively without an agreed evaluation system. National governments must develop...