Russia forms entente cordiale with Europe
An accord on scientific and technological cooperation has been signed by the EU and Russia. The agreement paves the way for the exchange of information and researchers, as well as allowing free...
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Window on science for all EU citizens
Bionet, an electronic network linking science museums in the EU, is to be launched next year. Funded by the European Commission's Directorate General for Research, it willcreate a digital exhibition...
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Call for monitoring of stem cell research
A specialist group formed to advise the European Commission on ethical issues has called for staged ethical assessments during EU-funded research on stem cells. The European Group on Ethics in...
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Group to coordinate studies of BSE and CJD
A coordinating group is to be set up by the EU to link research teams across the continent that are investigating the cause and effect of BSE and its human form, new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease...
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High bids will boost medical courses
Bids from English universities for new medical places could lead to the opening of two medical schools and to a rapid expansion of four-year graduate-entry medical degrees. The universities of York...
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Medical and nursing students
Medical and nursing students should study complementary and alternative medicine (Cam), according the House of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee, writes Caroline Davis. Lord Walton's sub-...
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Singapore fails to stump up promised cash
One of the richest members of the Commonwealth has failed to contribute to a flagship distance-learning project for the 12th year. The Singapore delegation left the Commonwealth Ministers' Education...
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From today's UK papers
FINANCIAL TIMES Scientists at the Max Delbruk Centre in Berlin and Infogen, a German biotechnology company, have announced that they have identified one gene that is responsible for the phenomenon of...
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Latest UK news
Blunkett calls for employer-union talks David Blunkett has called on university employers to sit down with the trade unions to negotiate pay. The education secretary made his plea at the Association...
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Latest international news
Ministers promote student mobility Commonwealth education ministers have put academic exchanges and student mobility at the heart of a seven-point action plan. The 54 member states, meeting...
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Latest enterprise news
British university teams won four of the ten prizes in the European software competition, EASA2000 in Rotterdam this week. Groups from the universities of Bath, Cambridge, Huddersfield and the Open...
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Re-routing world water ways
The global management of water must be rethought, a new report urges. Wendy Barnaby reports. If politics is the art of the possible, this document is a work of art." The first words used by Kadar...
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Friends and enemies of the earth
Playing Safe
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel by a Scottish-Jewish Catholic dame: " Dame Lettie Colston refilled her fountain-pen and...
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The family enthroned
Queen Victoria