Strasbourg, 26 June 2003 Draft recommendation to the European Commission in complaint 1878/2002/GG. Strasbourg, 18 June 2003 The complainant, a small company from the UK, was the co-ordinator of a...
Brussels, 26 Jun 2003 The United States and European Union made firm commitments to increase cooperation in key economic and scientific areas during the EU-US summit in Washington on 25 June. Leading...
Brussels, 26 Jun 2003 The work of the new European road transport research advisory council (ERTRAC) got underway on 25 June when all members came together for the first time in Brussels. EU Research...
Brussels, 26 Jun 2003 The European Commission is inviting feedback on the initial work of the model contract working group. The final model contract document will be influenced by responses to these...
Paris, 26 Jun 2003 Share the excitement of our European science adventure in space through the new ESA Space Science site for the general public and media launched today at http://www.esa.int/science...
Brussels, 26 Jun 2003 As the Greek EU Presidency comes to a close, the General Secretariat for Research and Technology has published a report outlining a series of guidelines to further the...
Stanislas Gosse, an academic at a Strasbourg engineering school who admitted using a secret passage to steal 1,100 books, including a 15th-century incunabulum from the Mont-Sainte-Odile monastery at...
The European Commission has launched an online glossary explaining jargon used in documents for Sixth Framework Programme grant applications. fp6.cordis.lu/fp6/glossary.cfm A European Brain Council...
Graduates will serve in the army for one year, compared with 18 months for young men without higher education, under Belarus' new law on military service.
Several students suspected of complicity in an attempted military coup in Mauritania have been arrested and face trial.
Deputy prime minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has denied that a new university admissions system designed to ensure a fairer representation of Malaysia's Chinese and Indian population has had the...
Turkmenistan president Saparmurat Niazov is trying to prevent students from travelling abroad for their education, fearing that foreign universities could become a hotbed of Turkmen dissent. A new...
Ever questioned why some undergraduates fail? It's all down to a lack of confidence, insists Christopher Ball Most students get degrees. A few fail. Why? The question arises even more insistently in...
Male-female differences will influence success in certain degrees. We should look deeper than statistics to examine bias Back in the late 1980s, I nearly fell out permanently with a close friend and...
Aids vaccine hope as scientists map antibody The search for an Aids vaccine took an important step forward yesterday when scientists said that they had mapped the structure of an antibody that can...