Paris, Mar 2003 On 31 March at Oberpfaffenhofen, near Munich, Germany, ESA Director of Human Spaceflight Mr Jörg Feustel-Büechl will sign a EUR 37.7 m contract with DLR, the German national agency...
Brussels, Mar 2003 There has been 'unprecedented development' in terms of the Community's research policy in the last year claims the Commission's 2002 annual report on technological research and...
Brussels, Mar 2003 Commission President Romano Prodi has asked the President of the European Investment Bank (EIB), Philippe Maystadt, to seek new sources of funding for major research and...
Paris, Mar 2003 In January 2002, a moderately dim star in the constellation Monoceros, the Unicorn, suddenly became 600 000 times more luminous than our Sun. This made it temporarily the brightest...
Brussels, Mar 2003 The farm scale evaluations of genetically modified (GM) crops in the UK are complete, but before any final data have been published, campaigners are already calling into question...
Washington D.C., Mar 2003 Tuesday, April 29, 2003 United States Patent and Trademark Office Arlington, Virginia 22202 Patent Theater, Crystal Park 2, 2nd Floor ** Note New Location** The most recent...
Brussels, March 2003 The European Commission has launched a service "IST Results" - to provide on-going information on results of the EU's 3.6 billion euro research program for the IT and...
The war in Iraq will hit efforts by UK universities and colleges to attract more overseas students, although higher education will prove key in rebuilding diplomatic bridges after the conflict,...
Lecturer David Petrie, a Scot who teaches English at the University of Verona, has become an expert in the intricacies of the Italian legal system after more than a decade fighting for the rights of...
Forget postcodes - a far simpler test can help admissions tutors identify working-class applicants. A conference on widening access to higher education last week heard from Roderick Floud, vice-...
Will Saunders, the British astronomer arrested last week for painting a "No War" slogan on the Sydney Opera House, is clearly a serial protester with little fear of the law. In an email from...
If you want to be a TV star but are not an instant pundit on wars, go get a job at Leicester University, where no fewer than four academics are featuring in various television series. Geologist Sarah...
East Riding College of Yorkshire is becoming Easy Riding. Local councillors have approved a plan that will offer students in remote areas mopeds to get to college. Eligible students will have to live...
The Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education came into being as a result of the Dearing report, which proposed that its functions be "to accredit programmes of training for higher...
Researchers are robbing the poor by keeping data out of the public domain, argues David Hulme Researchers from European and US universities are in effect stealing from the poor by holding on to data...