Brussels, 24 Nov 2004 Chris Patten, the former External Relations Commissioner now Chancellor of Oxford and Newcastle Universities, has warned that the economic argument for greater spending on...
Low student reply rate keeps top institutions off tally of campuses and lessens the impact of results. Jessica Shepherd reports. More of the UK's top universities were excluded from the National...
In their attempt to promote 'Britishness', politicians and historians these days seem increasingly to find reasons to celebrate the Empire while playing down the many horrors that arose from it,...
Brussels, 17 Jun 2004 Brussels, 23 June 2004 WHO? Philippe Busquin, Commissioner for Research, European Commission In the presence of H.R.H. Prince Laurent of Belgium, President of the Prince Laurent...
Vienna, 4 May 2006 Austrian Presidency Conference on European Technology Platforms Vienna, 4 May 2006 Minister Bartenstein, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen, Europe faces many challenges to...
Brussels, 10 March 2006 The EU and Russia are getting closer in space activities. The Head of the Federal Space Agency of the Russian Federation (Roscosmos) Anatoliy Perminov, the Director General of...
British boardrooms may be notoriously male dominated but university business schools are proving more enlightened, with women far more conspicuous at all levels. The Association of Business Schools...
Africa and the international community recognise that higher education is essential to development. John Rowett explains the Commonwealth's vital role The key to Africa achieving the UN's Millennium...
Brussels, Mar 2006 Six new alternative testing methods that can replace animal tests for certain drugs and chemicals have been developed by the EU's European Centre for the Validation of Alternative...
Paris, Jun 2003 ESA and its 16 national delegations have come together with the European Commission and more than a hundred separate industries to develop future road maps for space technology...
Writing on the Margins
03/05/2006 Medical breakthroughs in fighting Hepatitis B, novel anti-viral properties, the DNA chip and methods for intercepting illness causing proteins are among the final winners of the European...
The gloves were off in science this week as the three main political parties battled for the academic vote in the coming general election, killing off research councils and trampling on egos along...
Ljubljana (Slovenia), 6 December 2004 Dear participants, Dear colleagues, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am very pleased to speak to you in this morning’s plenary session on the challenge we face to...
Canny students who won't heed their elders have much to teach market advocates, says David Watson This week, Universities UK's Longer-Term Strategy Group publishes the fifth annual report in its...