Right man at right time
FSA chairman Sir John Krebs played a pivotal role in the bid to control the foot-and-mouth epidemic. Caroline Davis talked to him. In March, after the first cases of foot-and-mouth disease were...
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Don's Diary
Thursday The site I founded in my gap year, InfoYouth, for 16 to 24-year-olds, is launching in just under a week. Under the auspices of Schoolsnet, it will provide information for students on...
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Philippe Busquin: Les sciences de la vie et les biotechnologies dans l'Espace européen de la Recherche Carrefour des biotechnologies Lille, le 15 octobre 2002
Lille, le 15 octobre 2002 Madame la Ministre, Mesdames et Messieurs, Pour un commissaire européen à la recherche, c'est une occasion rêvée de pouvoir s'adresser à une assemblée si diversifiée d'...
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Trial Aids vaccine works on monkeys
In our focus on Italian research, Paul Bompard reports on new efforts to shake up an unequal and underfunded system. Below, he looks at the agonies and the ecstasies of medical researchers The...
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Science projects suffer in squeeze
Strategic research by the British Geological Survey has suffered from a combination of government short-termism, the focused demands of commercial contracts and a long, gradual squeeze on science...
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Philippe Busquin Commissaire européen chargé de la Recherche La recherche européenne pour une fabrication propre et intelligente Conference on sustainable and flexible manufacturing Milan, le 22 octob
Milan, le 22 octobre 2003 J'ai le plaisir de pouvoir faire une synthèse sur les présentations qui vous ont été faites aujourd'hui, mais je tiens tout d'abord à remercier Mr Dante Speroni, vice...
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Philippe Busquin Commissaire européen chargé de la Recherche La recherche européenne pour une fabrication propre et intelligente Conference on sustainable and flexible manufacturing Milan, le 22 octob
Milan, le 22 octobre 2003 J'ai le plaisir de pouvoir faire une synthèse sur les présentations qui vous ont été faites aujourd'hui, mais je tiens tout d'abord à remercier Mr Dante Speroni, vice...
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Sylvan unveils subsidiary
Sylvan Learning Systems, which owns the private Universidad Europea de Madrid, has launched a $500 million (Pounds 317 million) subsidiary that will specialise in internet-based programmes. The...
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Cash that appears as if from nowhere
Research findings appear from thin air, a preliminary report of the fundamental review of research has found. More research is being conducted than funded in British universities, according to the...
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Where the heart is, but not the incentive to stay
Northern Ireland has the potential to thrive if it encourages young people to study there, says George Bain Next week, United States president Bill Clinton returns to Northern Ireland. For all its...
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Several steps ahead for the union dues
I WILL always remember the morning that Leon Brittan resigned from the Cabinet over the Westland affair. It was a marvellous occasion ripe with drama and intrigue. The great, the good and the bag...
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The right design
Engineering Design and Automation
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Brussels welcomes eastern scientists
Researchers in Eastern European countries hoping to join the European Union are to be allowed to take part in projects funded by the EU's Fifth Framework Programme, as part of Brussels's strategy to...
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Blunkett hints at big RAE changes
Education secretary David Blunkett has hinted in a lecture to social scientists that he would like to see widespread changes to the research assessment exercise. Speaking at an event arranged by the...
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Why Tasmanian hens have two husbands
Survival Strategies