SA gives green light to funding for GMES
Paris, 23 Sep 2004 ESA PR 52-2004. ESA's Earth Observation Programme Board met at the Eden Project in Cornwall on 21 and 22 September. An agreement was reached at this meeting among ESA's Member...
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ESA checks over first Galileo experimental satellite model
Paris, 23 Sep 2004 The structural model of the first of two experimental Galileo satellites to be launched in 2005, is currently being tested at the European Space Agency's European Space Research...
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Commission Communication: Security Research: The Next Steps (link)
Brussels, 23 Sep 2004 COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS Security Research: The...
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French budget includes an additional one billion euro for research
Brussels, 23 Sep 2004 French Research Minister François d'Aubert has announced a raft of new initiatives to boost French research and innovation, as well as an additional one billion euro to finance...
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Call to identify best practice in meaningful science and technology teaching
Brussels, 23 Sep 2004 The Commission's Research DG is calling for tenders to carry out a study to identify and disseminate within Europe best practice in the context of science teaching that places...
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Call to identify best practice in science mentoring and ambassador schemes in Europe
Brussels, 23 Sep 2004 The Commission's Research DG is calling for tenders to carry out a study to identify and disseminate best practice in science mentoring and science ambassador schemes across...
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Corrigendum - private sector interaction in the decision making processes of public research
Brussels, 23 Sep 2004 The European Commission has published a corrigendum to its call for tenders on private sector interaction in the decision making processes of public research. The deadline for...
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Corrigendum - study on patent and publication citations and research networks
Brussels, 23 Sep 2004 The European Commission has published a corrigendum to its call for tenders for a study on highly-cited patents, highly-cited publications and research networks. The deadline...
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Laurie Taylor Column
"Today's students need much more spoon-feeding than previous generations of undergraduates" - Times Higher survey, September 17 Imogen? Is that you lurking outside the door? Do come in. Please sit...
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Leader: Separate worlds, common cause
Two international conferences in less than a month have focused on the relationship between higher education and the media - testament, if any were required, to the growing recognition that the two...
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Leader: University own goals
Most honorary degrees are uncontroversial, awarded as they are to eminent academics or figures who have a longstanding association with a university. But recent months have seen a rash of awards that...
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Bribed and bullied, but by whom? 1
For many months I have been puzzled by the attitude of the Association of University Teachers to Nottingham University's new pay system for academic-related staff. Unlike the other campus unions, the...
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Bribed and bullied, but by whom? 2
Management at Nottingham University repeatedly makes the assertion that "the new pay structure for academic-related staff had been fully consulted on and accepted by 99 per cent of staff". It...
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Knuckleheaded view
It is clear that Robert Kagan seeks to vindicate the argument in his book Paradise and Power at the same time as distancing himself from the mess that the Bush Administration has got itself into (...
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Wild reasoning
Nancy Rothwell can justify vivisection only by raising irrelevant issues (Columnist, September 17). She says donations to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals normally exceed...