Brussels, 25 April 2002 Nuclear safety in the context of enlargement: Working Programme of the AQG Working Party on Nuclear Safety for the Monitoring Process. Presidency note. Brussels, 7 January...
Brussels, 25 April 2002 Commissioner Loyola DE PALACIO addressed the Industry Committee on Tuesday on the subject of energy policy. She set out her plans for 2003 and described the Commission's...
Brussels, 25 April 2002 Enterprise and Information Society Commissioner Erkki Liikanen attended the opening of the Philips HomeLab, a home laboratory built to study how people interact with...
Brussels, 25 April 2002 The European Commission has issued a call for tenders for a study on 'The impact of the e-economy on entrepreneurship and start-up in the ICT (information and communication...
Brussels, 25 April 2002 The European Commission has issued a restricted procedure contract notice for a contract relating to the provision of expert assistance in the field of information...
Brussels, 25 April 2002 CORDIS, the European Commission's Research and Development Information Service, is hosting a new service on innovation activities in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. The...
Brussels, 25 April 2002 Yesterday Parliament's Industry Committee adopted by a large majority its second-reading report on the EU's Sixth Framework Programme for Research and Development, a five-year...
Brussels, 25 April 2002 Synchrotrons, ultra high-intensity lasers or particle accelerators: infrastructures play a fundamental role in European research. The mission of the new "European Strategy...
Brussels, 25 April 2002 In promoting the implementation of e-learning in Europe, Viviane Reding, Member of the Commission with responsibility for Education and Culture, today welcomed the launch of...
Wealthier Oxford colleges offer ‘better education’ Undergraduates at wealthy Oxford colleges such as Christ Church and St John’s have a significantly better educational experience than those at...
Brown promises cash injection for science Chancellor Gordon Brown pledged a funding boost for science in the new spending review when he last night opened the National e-Science Centre based...
The falling popularity of science at schools and universities so worries Imperial College, London, that it plans to employ postdocs who will spend half their time on research and the rest teaching...
University physics departments are to be asked to consider a new physics degree that will not require students to have mathematics A level. An Institute of Physics working group is developing several...
The House of Lords stood up for academic freedom last week when it carried amendments to the Export Control Bill by 150 votes to 108. Universities had worried that the bill would allow the government...
Scottish academics were relieved by news that Blackwell UK is to buy the 12 academic branches of James Thin, the family-run bookseller that entered administration earlier this year. Blackwell's chief...