Brussels, 12 Sep 2002 The Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission has published its annual report for 2001 in both paper and CD format. 'I have been pleased with the efforts the JRC...
Brussels, 12 September 2002 Full text Note on participation of non-COST countries in COST Actions. European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research - COST Secretariat. Brussels...
Brussels, 12 Sep 2002 COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION MORE RESEARCH FOR EUROPE Towards 3% of GDP Table of Contents Full Text EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In March 2000, at the Lisbon European Council, Heads...
Brussels, 12 Sep 2002 A decision adopted by the European Commission has approved the criteria for the registry which will take care of the administration, management and marketing of the new '.eu'...
Brussels, 12 Sep 2002 Representatives from the European Commission's Information Society DG will take part in the world's largest trade fair for books, multimedia and communications in Frankfurt,...
Last week's article "Search for the formula to put spark in science" incorrectly stated that the University of Essex had shut its maths department this year. The university is reviewing its provision...
Put everyone on DNA database, expert says A database holding the DNA profile of the entire British population could be the fairest way to help solve crime and yet protect civil liberties, Sir Alec...
Fears that former vice-chancellor Ken Edwards has been forced into a twilight life in computer repair were raised at the University of Leicester this week. The computers provided this week for...
Job swaps for the boys: while Tim O'Shea ups sticks from London to take over as principal of Edinburgh University next month, the previous incumbent, Lord Sutherland of Houndwood, is heading south,...
Forget the Boat Race and the Varsity Match. The higher education sports event of the year takes place tomorrow at Bath University, where the football team has already gone further in the FA Cup than...
The hunt for outstandingly obscure journals has upset readers conversant in Esperanto. A number contacted us after the Australian publication Esperanto sub la suda kruco was nominated, informing us...
A good week for rock music. Not only has Elvis been recruited to attract students to a theology course, Rock of Ages, at Trinity College, Carmarthen, by studying his lyrics, but Noddy Holder and his...
Amateur astronomer Steve Reid has created his own observatory out of an old septic tank. Mr Reid paid £3.50 for the second-hand glass-fibre sphere that was once connected to a toilet. He cut it in...
Universities must wake up to the challenge from rival sources of higher education, writes Peter Coaldrake Over the past two decades, in almost all Organisation for Economic Cooperation and...
The University of Wi****ersrand has protested at the failure of organisers to involve it in security arrangements for a meeting to be addressed by Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres. South African...