Brussels, 01 March 2002 Concentrating a broad array of instruments on a single platform and integrating continuous streams of data in real time, ENVISAT opens exciting opportunities for new products...
Teachers offered excellence fellowships More than 100 school and college teachers will be going back to university as part of a scheme aimed at widening participation in higher education. Some 30...
Starkey makes history with £2m TV deal Historian David Starkey yesterday became the unlikeliest resident of stellar street. The ebullient academic, who has admitted to being the rudest man on...
Tired of indifferent, unanalytical history textbooks? Jeremy Black opts for surprising alternatives that first appeared in 1902 - the Cambridge Histories. Textbooks. We all think we know what they...
Language scholar David Crystal takes delight in watching words evolve. David Crystal is an independent scholar who edits reference books and writes about his passion, language, from a big old house...
Michael Alexander on revising a literary classic. "Beowulf" Reduced There once was a hero called Scyld Whose descendant decided to build A magnificent hall With seating for all, But some of his best...
Brussels, 28 February 2002 The European Commission has published a survey on the effects of the dilemma that scientists said they faced when faced by scientists when they want to publish their...
Brussels, 28 February 2002 Common position adopted by the Council on 14 February 2002 with a view to the adoption of a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council...
Brussels, 28 February 2002 The European Economic and Social Committee (ESC) has welcomed the Commission's proposals on rules for participation in the Sixth Framework programme (FP6), particularly the...
Brussels, 28 February 2002 The Scientific Steering Committee (SSC), advising the European Commission inter alia on BSE related issues, has today published an opinion outlining a set-up for field...
Brussels, 28 February 2002 The European rail research advisory council (ERRAC) is making good progress on defining and implementing a strategic rail research agenda for Europe, the group's chairman...
Brussels, 28 February 2002 The sixth European space power conference (espc-2002) will take place in Porto, Portugal, from 6 to 10 May 2002. The event, sponsored by the European space agency (ESA) in...
Paris, 28 February 2002 Ariane 5 and Envisat's roll-out seemed to go without a hitch but around 6 pm local time an anomaly with the venting at the level of the Vehicle Equipment Bay was discovered....
Brussels, 28 February 2002 GALILEO ­ draft Council Conclusions. Note from Presidency to Delegations. Brussels, 22 February 2002 (document 6576/02 AVIATION 31 MAR 22 TRANS 63 RECH 44). Full...
Hundreds of students at the University of Wolverhampton's law school were given the wrong exam results, with dozens incorrectly told they had failed, just months after The THES reported on exam and...