Brussels, 25 July 2002 The European space agency (ESA) ocean/ice unit has been tracking the movements of an unusually heavy Antarctic sea ice pack that has trapped ships attempting to deliver...
Brussels, 25 July 2002 The German Science Council has recommended government funding for five large-scale scientific facilities that will cost 4.9 billion euro to build, more than any previous...
Brussels, 25 July 2002 The US Department of Energy is to use the conclusions of an international meeting of scientists to decide whether or not to rejoin the international ITER nuclear fusion project...
News Examining the examiners: are externals on the way out? Features Nobel prize nominee and anti-nuclear weapons activist Helen Caldicott discusses her Nuclear Policy Research Institute; academics...
The government should concentrate on getting people with vocational qualifications into further and higher education rather than raising traditional academic standards, the Association of Colleges...
Vice-chancellors and lecturers struck a blow for academic freedom by securing a key amendment to an export bill on Tuesday. The export control bill, designed to regulate the arms trade, sets out...
London Guildhall University and the University of North London will merge next week to create London Metropolitan University. The university, one of the largest in the country, will have 28,000...
York University doubled its research council funding for biological sciences last year, receiving almost £10 million. The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council's 2001-02 annual...
A key component of the grid, heralded as the successor to the internet, has been completed, UK scientists told a conference in Edinburgh this week. The data access and integration programme will...
The Learning and Teaching Support Network has launched a debate on institutional research in memory of Mike Daniel, the late pro-rector of University College Northampton. It believes that measuring...
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs this week announced a £15 million injection to boost veterinary training and research in universities. The cash will be spent over three years...
The European Patent Office had revised a patent granted to Edinburgh University and the biotech firm Stem Cell Services to remove the possibility that it could cover a method of cloning humans....
Cardiff University and the University of Wales College of Medicine have agreed in principle to merge, as suggested by the Welsh Assembly's strategy for higher education. Sir Graeme Davies, principal...
Electronic publishers should not be allowed to gather data on users without their knowledge or permission, according to the International Coalition of Library Consortia. The ICOLC has issued...
A report this week called for more government funding to put the UK at the forefront of the nanotechnology industry. The report, by the Advisory Group on Nanotechnology Applications, says the UK has...