Brussels, 13 Aug 2004 In March 2004, the CEN Technical Board (BT) created CEN/BTWG 166 'Nanotechnology'. The Working Group reports to the CEN/BT and its secretariat is with the BSI (British Standards...
Brussels, 13 Aug 2004 Photographs of the 25 members of the Barroso Commission
Paris, 13 Aug 2004 ESA's quartet of space-weather watchers, Cluster, has discovered vortices of ejected solar material high above the Earth. The superheated gases trapped in these structures are...
Paris, 13 Aug 2004 Celestial geode In this unusual image, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures a rare view of the celestial equivalent of a geode - a gas cavity carved by the stellar wind and...
Timing is everything, Albert Einstein (aka actor Gary Barber) was advised last week when he was given some tuition at the UK's biggest surf festival. The event was staged in Newquay, at the "Rip Curl...
Evidence that university admissions tests can help talent-spot sixth-formers across social classes is expected to emerge from a UK exam group, The Times Higher has learnt. Figures due to be published...
Concern that "gene doping" will be used by athletes to enhance their performance in the Olympic Games has been officially recognised, thanks to Simon Eassom, head of De Montfort University's School...
* Stephen McNair , professor and director of research at the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education and head of the School of Educational Studies at Surrey University, has been appointed...
Universities are taking controversial approaches to combat student failure rates to the dismay of staff Middlesex University was accused this week of compromising exam standards by setting a " de...
A St Andrews University expert in ancient athletics has uncovered evidence of an Olympic hero from the second century AD, the David Beckham of his day in terms of his sporting success and celebrity....
Women are severely underrepresented in senior academic positions in medicine, despite increasing numbers in the medical profession as a whole, academic medics have warned. Women are a "precious...
Universities are taking controversial approaches to combat student failure rates to the dismay of staff The head of a department that saw 93 per cent of this summer's architecture finalists fail...
The dean at the heart of the management meltdown that led to the naming and shaming of Thames Valley University six years ago as Britain's first failing university, has bounced back with a "best-...
GOLD RUSH Will sport scientists help Britain's Olympic swimmers to bring back gold? Also A glass act: Brian O'Callaghan looks at two histories of stained glass Edward Hopper: Stephen Farthing reviews...
The Association of University Teachers has accused managers at Nottingham University of "bullying and intimidating" staff into signing local contracts that could cut their earnings by thousands of...