Brussels, 20 Feb 2003 Leading life scientists meeting in Paris to discuss the possible creation of a European research council (ERC) reached a consensus on certain key issues, but left a number of...
Brussels, 20 Feb 2003 The forum for European-Australian science and technology cooperation (FEAST) is holding a series of information seminars in Australia on the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6). The...
Paris, 20 Feb 2003 ESA is providing the first chairman for the International Living With A Star (ILWS) programme. ILWS is an unprecedented initiative in which space agencies worldwide are getting...
Female provost breaks mould at Cambridge King’s College, Cambridge, has appointed its new provost: the first non-King’s graduate for centuries and the first female provost in its 560-year history....
Research elite want rethink of knowledge-transfer funding Top research-led universities want the government to revise plans to give new universities access to a £50 million fund to work more closely...
Efforts to reform Cambridge show that if dons won't fight their corner, others will muscle in, says Gordon Johnson Normally, Cambridge University has a good press, which is appropriate for an...
With all advances come some small drawbacks, but that doesn't mean technologies shouldn't be developed at all We are continually bombarded by emotive campaigns. You name it: for and against GM beans...
This week, The Diary brings you intelligence of what the country's academic registrars are doing when they're not shuffling papers - they're all exchanging puerile jokes about each others' students....
January 1963 Wow, BBC schools broadcast on Mick Mannock VC, the "ace with one eye" who, myth has it, memorised the sight chart, tricking the doctors in order to rule the skies over the Western Front...
We must always be concerned if students drop out of their degree programmes. For each one, we need to understand why they did so, whether we could have done anything to prevent it, whether they were...
How can journal editors keep lethal research out of the hands of terrorists? Donald Kennedy reports C. P. Snow, in a series of splendid novels, explored the cultural gulf between the sciences and the...
United Kingdom? Not according to the proposals advanced in the white paper, says Gerry McKenna The white paper signals the break-up of higher education in the UK. The proposals represent the de facto...
The fate of 50 departments in a dozen universities hangs on the resolution of a standoff between ministers and their higher education advisers on how to select a new research elite. Last month's...
Leading research universities could start poaching promising departments from weaker institutions to secure the 6* research rating, according to analysis of the higher education white paper. Business...
As a Moscow University anthropology graduate, Russian model Inna Zobova had impeccable academic credentials to lecture at Rome's La Sapienza University. The black diaphanous blouse she wore to...