Brussels, 10 Oct 2003 This publication summarises the results of the Galilei project that was funded under the European Union's fifth framework programme for research, technological development and...
Brussels, 10 Oct 2003 Rapid scientific and technological progress can give rise to serious ethical dilemmas of concern to European citizens. A key question, therefore, is how to ensure that citizens...
Brussels, 10 Oct 2003 A delegation from the US Department of Energy's Office of Science came to Brussels on 7 and 8 October to promote opportunities for US-EU collaboration in the benchmarking and...
Brussels, 10 Oct 2003 On 9 October, the European Parliament adopted an own-initiative report by Italian MEP Guido Bodrato on Europe's space policy. The resolution calls on the Commission to take a...
Brussels, 10 Oct 2003 From 20 October, bidding will open on three sets of euro banknotes and fifteen sets of euro coins with a difference: all have been into space and flown onboard the international...
Brussels, 10 Oct 2003 The European Commission has published a call for proposals in the area of 'scientific support to policies' under the Sixth Framework Programme's 'policy support and anticipating...
Brussels, 10 Oct 2003 The European Commission has published a call for proposals in the area of 'sustainable energy systems: research activities having an impact in the medium and longer term' under...
Paris, 10 Oct 2003 Follow the Cervantes launch and docking with the International Space Station from one of ESA's establishments. The launch of ESA's Cervantes mission to the International Space...
A professor of education at Durham University has accused administrators of withholding £1.6 million of her centre's research income to reduce the university's financial deficit. Carol Fitz-Gibbon...
Rick Trainor has been appointed principal of King's College London, making him the first head of a former polytechnic to take the helm of a Russell Group institution. Professor Trainor, vice-...
Nottingham University physicist Sir Peter Mansfield confesses that his Nobel prize for medicine, awarded this week, came as a bolt from the blue. "I am obviously very pleased and honoured, but I...
* Caroline MacDonald, assistant principal at the University of Paisley, has been elected chair of the Modern Universities Research Group. * Margaret Smith, microbiologist at Nottingham University,...
Traditional degree classifications could soon be scrapped following new research that shows that most universities are already giving graduates aggregate final marks as part of new transcripts of...
A university degree may add less to a graduate's lifetime earnings than previously indicated by the government, according to its own figures. Data from the Department for Education and Skills show...
Poor students are four times less likely to go to university than their better-off counterparts who are more relaxed about incurring debts, according to new research that raises big questions about...