Brussels, 21 Oct 2004 Full text of Document 313/04 Suite of documents 313/04 Subject: To position COST in the European Research Area (ERA) - report by the JAF Rapporteur for Task 2 Delegations will...
Brussels, 21 Oct 2004 Full text of Document 312/04 Suite of documents 312/04 Attached is the abovementioned Memorandum of Understanding signed in Brussels on 29 September 2004 by Finland, France and...
Brussels, 21 Oct 2004 'We will continue with our fight against GMOs even if we have to be punished and even if we have to go back to prison,' José Bové, a leading French campaigner against...
Brussels, 21 Oct 2004 The EU project SYMBIONIC, funded as a 'specific support action' under the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) will hold a course on the computational systems biology of the neuronal...
Brussels, 21 Oct 2004 Health ministers from seven European countries, together with the European Commission, have announced that they will increase research cooperation in the search for an HIV/AIDS...
Brussels, 21 Oct 2004 Dutch State Secretary for Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment Pieter van Geel has called for the further investigation of all technologies that could provide an...
Brussels, 21 Oct 2004 A virtual network for young practitioners working on science and society issues has been launched - a direct outcome of a European Commission and Joint Research Centre (JRC)...
Brussels, 21 Oct 2004 A Chinese-European networking symposium on research networks and broadband solutions will take place in Shanghai, China, on 9 and 10 December. The event is supported by the...
A conference in London next week devoted to "The Changing Role of the Professor" will address "negative professorial images". Welcome to this afternoon's session on the popular image of the...
Without a code of ethics, university marketing could sell everybody short, argues Steven Schwartz Many years ago, as a junior reporter, I rang several companies that sold traveller's cheques. I told...
The headlines have been all about school diplomas, but this week may come to be seen as just as significant for higher education. The appointment of Sir Martin Harris as the first director of the...
David Eastwood gives the optimistic view of the Tomlinson report on 14-to-19 education, as befits a member of the committee, and many in higher education will give the report a similarly fair wind....
Although it is common outside education to encounter a view that assessment must mean examinations, it is surprising and disturbing to find such a misunderstanding within your pages. Your report last...
We - University College London graduate tutors across a wide range of disciplines - are dismayed at the manner in which precious resources are to be wasted in providing generic skills training, as...
So the new PhD code will involve the Higher Education Funding Council for England in a new inspection regime that will be "paper based, with follow-up visits" (News, October 15) . Then there is the...