Brussels, 06 Oct 2005 French Minister for National Education, Higher Education and Research Gilles de Robien, presented a new bill on the future national research programme on 5 October, the 'pact...
Brussels, 06 Oct 2005 The Campaign for Science and Engineering in the UK (CaSE) has stressed the importance of commercialising university research whilst, at the same time, maintaining the...
Brussels, 06 Oct 2005 The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) issued its annual World Investment Report (WIR) on 29 September. WIR 2005 includes UNCTAD's first-ever survey on...
Brussels, 06 Oct 2005 Vice President of the European Commission Günter Verheugen and Science and Research Commissioner Janez Potocnik will host a conference on animal tests and alternative...
Brussels, 06 Oct 2005 The 11th annual international biotechnology partnering conference, BIO-Europe 2005, will take place in Dresden, Germany from 7 to 9 November. BIO-Europe aims at providing a...
Brussels, 06 Oct 2005 A conference on the present situation and forecasts for nanotechnology in materials, health and medical systems, and energy, will take place in Rome, Italy, from 4 to 5 November...
Brussels, 06 Oct 2005 An industry-focused nanotechnology conference and exhibition, NanoSolutions 2005, will take place in Cologne. Germany, from 8 to 10 November. The event will showcase new and...
Brussels, 06 Oct 2005 The European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) has published a call for tenders for research and experimental services in the field of 'in vitro' blood-brain barrier...
Geneva, 06 Oct 2005 The Assemblies of the member states of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) concluded on Wednesday, October 5, 2005, following a review of activities over the past...
Paris, 06 Oct 2005 Photos An ambitious initiative to utilise ESA satellite data to improve availability and management of African water resources took a further step forward on a hill slope...
Clinical academics get £100m booster The Government is putting up £100 million in funding to lure doctors into academia. Universities have been warning that they cannot compete with...
Universities are becoming PhD factories and "many students do not get the full 'PhD experience'" - Jim Ewing, general secretary of the National Postgraduate Committee, The Times Higher , September 30...
'What might we sensibly do about reforming degree classification? What we could usefully do, as usual, is steal the Americans' clothing' Our 'ancient' degree system is no such thing, and tripartite...
The simultaneous publication of the Higher Education Policy Institute's report on academic mobility and the beginning of our second round of world rankings suggests that UK universities are...
It is a rather strange state of affairs when a trade union firmly rooted to the principle of national pay bargaining publicly celebrates the arrival of local pay deals and the opening-up of a clear...