Brussels, 04 April 2002 A new EU-funded virtual network of excellence in the area of chemical measurement has started work. Europe's Virtual Institute for Chemometrics and Industrial Metrology (VICIM...
Paris, 04 April 2002 So now that Envisat is in orbit and we have access to more and better data about our Earth and its environment, how can we ensure that we make the best use of this data as well...
Strasbourg, 4 April 2002 Decision of the European Ombudsman on complaint 69/2001/BB against the European Commission. Strasbourg, 25 March 2002. Text The complainant applied for the selection...
Brussels, 04 April 2002 The European Commission's Environment DG has announced a call for tenders for a study on species which are subject to import restrictions. The species in question are subject...
University laboratories are falling apart as a result of a £3 billion maintenance backlog, according to a study carried out for the Office of Science and Technology. The report, by J. M. Consulting,...
News Governance: who really runs our universities? Features For the greater good? Ethical dilemmas for fieldworkers following September 11. Plus : Dolf Zillman gives his view on the causes of...
New York University has toppled Harvard as the top destination for overseas students studying in the United States - in spite of the September 11 effect. "As a rebuttal to terrorism, New York,...
The government and the Wellcome Trust have set up a joint venture company, Diamond Light Source, to build and operate the diamond synchrotron. The £235 million project will be based at the Rutherford...
Scotland's four specialist agricultural institutions have won backing from the European Social Fund for an online venture to help support struggling rural communities. The partnership between the...
Students should be free to vote with their feet - which would promote diversity in higher education, a conference will hear next week. Alasdair Smith (pictured), vice-chancellor of the University of...
The college council of Queen Mary, University of London, has resisted pressure to establish a redundancy committee. The principal had asked the council to set up the committee after receiving a...
Barbara Lubisch, a sociology student from Trento, north Italy, has been awarded the first Italo-German degree from the University of Trento and the Technische Universitat of Dresden.
The risk in widening participation on a tight budget ias a decline in graduation rates, warns Howard Newby. In the late 1970s, a prevalent theme of social-science analysis in the United States and in...
Overseas students want to learn English, business studies and information technology online, according to research conducted on behalf of the e-university. A call for proposals for courses in these...