Brussels, 13 Feb 2004 The European Parliament adopted an own initiative report on 11 February, calling on the Commission to focus more on the sustainability of agriculture in the Sixth and Seventh...
Brussels, 13 Feb 2004 A new pan-European project to find a new vaccine to one of the biggest killers in the world, tuberculosis (TB) is to be supported by the European Commission. Two million people...
Brussels, 13 Feb 2004 The Commission's 'new and emerging science and technology' (NEST) unit, together with National Contact Points, is organising an information and brokerage event on NEST-...
Brussels, 13 Feb 2004 The results of the ALBATROSS and OPIUM projects, funded under the Commission's information society technologies (IST) programme, will be presented at a workshop in Berlin,...
Brussels, 13 Feb 2004 An international conference on industrial gas turbine technologies will take place in Bled, Slovenia, on 29 and 30 April. The aim of the conference is to bring together...
Brussels, 13 Feb 2004 The European Commission has published a call for tenders for monitoring progress towards gender equality in the information society technologies (IST) priority of the Sixth...
A-level bands are failing to distinguish between the brightest university applicants, according to a report out next week that may lead to the addition of two extra grades at the pinnacle of a...
Hardly has the furore died down after his report on the death of David Kelly, than Lord Hutton is at the centre of a new row in his home province. Sinn Fein has attacked Ulster University over plans...
Pressure from Joanna Bennett of the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health will prompt ministers to act this week against racism in Britain's mental health services. Dr Bennett, formerly a senior...
* John Coyne , pro vice-chancellor of De Montfort University, is to become vice-chancellor of the University of Derby. * The University of Oxford has appointed: Peter Ratcliffe , former professor of...
As the nation gears up for Valentine's day, academics warned this week that the pain of heartbreak is not a figment of the imagination. At a debate on Wednesday night at London's adults-only science...
The way in which the research pot is shared between universities will be fundamentally changed from 2009, allowing the best work to be identified wherever it is found. The next research assessment...
Any amendments to the higher education bill will have to pass through the Commons standing committee within a month, it emerged this week, writes Alison Goddard. The Liberal Democrats have tabled...
Academics engaged in the time-honoured winter tradition of planning and booking their summer holidays might like to consider an all-expenses-paid lecturing stint on a luxury cruise ship. Every year,...
What does your VC earn? The Times Higher' s survey of vice-chancellors' pay Also The Cultural Revolution in close-up Delia Davin reviews Red Color News Soldier: A Chinese Photographer's Odyssey Books...