Brussels, 23 Jun 2005 Following a meeting of partners from the EU, US and Asia at a workshop in Seoul, South Korea, at the end of May, an agreement has been made to establish the International...
Brussels, 23 Jun 2005 Biotechnology is fulfilling its promise to become one of the key sectors in the creation of a high-tech research and industrial base in Ireland, claims Michael Ahern T.D.,...
Brussels, 23 Jun 2005 A consultation on simplification within the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) has been launched by the European Commission. The aim of this consultation is to provide an...
Brussels, 23 Jun 2005 Innovact, the European forum for innovative growth companies, will hold its 2005 conference in Reims, France, on 4 and 5 October. In its tenth anniversary year, the Innovact...
Brussels, 23 Jun 2005 The I*PROMS Network of Excellence will hold a virtual international conference on intelligent production machines and systems from 4 to 15 July. The goal of the conference is to...
Paris, 22 June 2005 MARSIS, the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding on board ESA's Mars Express orbiter, is now fully deployed, has undergone its first check-out and is ready...
Paris, 22 June 2005 Sigmar Wittig, currently Chairman of the Executive Board of the German Aerospace Centre (DLR), is the new Chair of the ESA Council for the next two years (as from 1 July)....
University cuts lectures to avoid 'over-teaching' Bristol University, which is raising tuition fees to £3,000 a year, has decided that its first-year politics students are being "over-taught". From...
From: Jamie Targett. Head of Corporate Development. To: All Members of Staff. I am pleased to enclose a summary of the final report of the university's Logo Committee. The committee began by...
If low-income students drop out, they end up worse off than before, with dreams broken and huge debts piling up. Over the past three weeks, The New York Times has been running a series of articles on...
Funding for research has seldom been easy to come by in the UK, but it appeared, over the past year, that the outlook was improving significantly. First, the Chancellor's ten-year plan for science...
Academics and administrators are still coming to terms with the increased willingness of many parents to intervene in their children's higher education. Previous generations of students were far less...
It was quite interesting to read the ever-acerbic Frank Furedi on the pitfalls of credentialism and the gushingly futuristic Baroness Greenfield on the anachronism of book learningJin last week's...
Just how out of touch is Baroness Greenfield to suggest technology may make writing obsolete? Without captions, computer images are little better than animated cave drawings. Thought depends on...
I was amazed to see you refer to Roderick Floud, president of London Metropolitan University, as a "champion of the poor" ("Queen's Birthday Honours List", June 17) without mentioning that he has...