The space industry meets to exchange views
Paris, 21 Nov 2003 Over 600 representatives of more than 320 European companies will gather at ESA's research and technology centre (ESTEC) on 24-26 November for Industry Space Days. These Industry...
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Invitation to European industry for the ISD-2003
Paris, 21 Nov 2003 The third edition of the Industry Space Days (ISD) will take place at ESTEC, Noordwijk in the Netherlands November 24-26, 2003. It is a major forum to generate tomorrow business...
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Satellite road management being developed in Lisbon
Paris, 21 Nov 2003 The European Space Agency is working with Portuguese organisations on how space technology can improve road safety. Each year in Europe, 40 000 people die and 1 700 000 are injured...
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Ten cases against member states for not legislating on deliberate release of GMOs into environment - Case Filings C-413, 416-424/03 - Commission v Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, I
Luxembourg, 15 November 2003 Ed: These cases against the ten member states for failing to transpose Directive 2001/18 are case in near-identical terms (only the claim for costs varies in the...
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Biomedical Ethics in Developing Countries: project grants
Deadline: 01/01/2004
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Pharmacogenetics research
Deadline: 07/01/2004
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Minister's dynamic double act
Apologising for education secretary Charles Clarke's absence at last week's Association of Colleges conference, higher education minister Alan Johnson said: "Charles and I like to come to events like...
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Student calls for royal coup
Prince Philip's verbal gaffes have led a student to challenge his life chancellorship of Edinburgh University. Jeremy Kemp has tabled a motion for next week's students' association annual general...
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Rugby on the pitch and on paper
While the English rugby team plays Australia in final of the World Cup this weekend, English academia will be represented in Oz by Andy Cushing. The University College Worcester sports lecturer is to...
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Academia's full monty
Academia seems to have gone sex mad, the Diary notes. Last week, Wendy Doniger, professor of the history of religions at the University of Chicago, had an egg thrown at her for linking Hinduism and...
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Don's diary: bringing it all back home
Week One I am sitting in Madison Square Garden for the first of two Bob Dylan concerts at the start of a research trip to complete a book on him and Leonard Cohen. Both are hailed as spokesmen for...
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Why I... think government reforms could widen social divides
Despite all the noise about top-up fees and changes to student funding, what has been lacking is hard evidence on their impact. New research commissioned by the Department for Education and Skills...
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Ditch your shares...
...invest in a student instead and get yourself a percentage of future earnings, says Miguel Palacios In the face of depleted public coffers and pressure to increase tuition fees, students and policy...
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Penalties will kill off originality
Putting pressure on PhD students to complete theses in four years is misguided, insists Anthony Smith The funding councils have proposed that unless 70 per cent of full-time students at any higher...
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Speak up, don't squeak and remember to smile
By following a few basic rules, anyone can deliver a decent conference paper. Susan Bassnett offers some useful tips. What makes a successful conference? Cynics would say that as long as there is one...