Brussels, 21 Mar 2003 A new research and development (R&D) facility for nanoelectronics has opened in Grenoble. The Crolles 2 project, opened by French President Jacques Chirac, currently...
Brussels, 21 Mar 2003 The 2003 ESARDA (European safeguards research and development association) symposium will take place from 13 to 15 May in Stockholm, Sweden. ESARDA is an association of European...
Paris, 21 Mar 2003 Following the decision not to launch Europe's comet chaser Rosetta in January, scientists and engineers in the programme have been examining several alternative mission scenarios....
Brussels, 21 Mar 2003 Coming shortly after the publication of both the Commission communication on innovation policy and the innobarometer, the presentation of the 'monitoring innovation in regions...
Paris, 21 Mar 2003 Health-care experts met in Barcelona last weekend to discuss what an EU press release describes as "another piece of Europe in your pocket". The workshop on electronic health cards...
Oxbridge courts primary school children State-school children as young as ten are being courted by Oxford and Cambridge in an attempt to increase the numbers of working-class students...
Exam results improve with fatherly input Children with fathers involved in their upbringing are more successful in exams and less likely to get a criminal record, a conference in Oxford is to hear...
Paris, 20 Mar 2003 Mars Express, the first European spacecraft to visit the planet Mars, has completed its tests at Toulouse, France. After six months extensive thermal environmental, mechanical and...
Brussels, 20 Mar 2003 The association of European science and technology transfer professionals (ASTP) will hold a conference on 'best practices in transfer of science and technology' in Copenhagen,...
Brussels, 20 Mar 2003 Both EU Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin and Director-General of Rosaviakosmos, the Russian space agency, Yuri Koptev, made moves to further strengthen cooperation in the...
Paris, 20 Mar 2003 The European Space Agency will present its SMART-1 lunar mission to the press on 3 April 2003. The event will take place at the European Space Technology Research Centre (ESTEC),...
Brussels, 20 Mar 2003 Current global tensions underline the need for an effective space programme which meets the EU's security needs, Commissioner for Research Philippe Busquin has said. Speaking at...
Universities will use aptitude tests to filter students Universities will strongly resist the government's attempt to interfere with their admission procedures through the regulator said Sir Derek...
Extra tests and supplementary application forms are being used by universities to boost the number of students they take from lower socioeconomic groups, writes Alison Goddard. The universities of...
Buckingham shows how the state could support a UK Ivy League, argues Terence Kealey Did we nationalise the universities the wrong way? Until the first world war, British universities were independent...