Brussels, 06 Mar 2003 Full text of Document 6903/03 Subject: Adoption of a common position by the Council with a view to the adoption of a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council...
Brussels, 06 Mar 2003 A recently published assessment of information society technology (IST) research has concluded that the effectiveness of research in the European Research Area (ERA) depends on...
Brussels, 06 Mar 2003 Full text of Document 6903/03 Subject: Adoption of a common position by the Council with a view to the adoption of a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council...
More cash to widen access for students Universities are to receive a five-fold increase in the cash they are given to widen participation by recruiting more students from a broader range of social...
Funding chiefs today cut Bristol University's teaching grant for failing to recruit enough students from poorer backgrounds, days after private-school heads agreed to boycott the university for...
The Higher Education Funding Council for England has launched a review of partnership agreements between universities and further education colleges. A team of reviewers from three universities, two...
The University of Bath is set to double its size in the biggest shake-up since it received its royal charter in 1966. Vice-chancellor Glynis Breakwell has received the go-ahead from higher education...
A series of studies in which criminals are filmed re-enacting their offences and are then interviewed about them has been unveiled by one of the UK's leading crime specialists. Martin Gill, professor...
Bad experience at A level is a key reason why students are shunning language degrees, according to an Anglo-German Foundation report published this week. Sixth-formers are put off by the jump in...
Aberdeen University scientists are waging war on that scourge of the Scottish summer - the common midge - with a £150,000 grant from Scottish Enterprise's proof of concept fund to commercialise...
News Hefce unveils its strategy Darwin and the barnacle An eight-year love affair that inspired one of science's most far-reaching theories Virtual vision Tony Smith, president of Magdalen College,...
Aston University faces a High Court claim for more than £100,000 in damages next week from a former PhD student who hopes to set a legal precedent and consign the quasi-judicial visitor system to...
Ruskin College - the workers' university - faced a difficult future this week after a crucial property deal fell through. Principal Jim Durcan had drawn up plans to move the 100-year-old Oxford...
Oxford and Cambridge universities are stepping up their outreach campaigns to attract more non-traditional students. The universities are on tour, hoping to attract sixth formers to events designed...
March 2002 Radio 4 announces that I am going to Afghanistan as an artist commissioned by the Imperial War Museum. I am still struggling to find a way into the country, let alone plan an itinerary. It...