Split personality
I note from your article on Jane Davidson ("The lady's not for unfair learning", December 3) that the minister's pet hates are split infinitives and misplaced apostrophes. Under her photograph, there...
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Look beyond class warfare and rights culture
Why do we think of animal welfare only in extreme terms? asks Alison Hills We owe nothing to animals, wrote Aristotle, for they have nothing in common with us. The Christian thinkers Aquinas and...
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Uncle Sam no longer a favourite...
The US used to be a magnet for Chinese students but the fervour has cooled and others hope to profit from the backlash, says Stephen Phillips The thought of Chinese students lining up to enter...
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Adam James introduces Andrew Coyle, the first professor of prison studies
It was April 2002 and Israeli tanks were holding the Palestinian leader, the late Yasser Arafat, under siege in his Ramallah compound in the West Bank. Governments around the world were desperate to...
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More porridge is hard to swallow
The average inmate is poorly educated and probably has drug or mental-health problems. Andrew Coyle asks whether prison is the best answer In the past few days David Blunkett, the Home Secretary, has...
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The danger of closed minds
John Kirkaldy explains why the OU reaches out to inmates It was 3am and the man at the party was very drunk. "When," he demanded belligerently, "is the Open University going to give up giving degrees...
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Another Bush family member
Condoleezza Rice is extraordinarily talented but does she have the guts to contradict her closest ally? asks Jennifer Mathers Condoleezza Rice exemplifies the American dream. She has risen from...
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European Food Safety Agency Consultation workshops on general surveillance of genetically modified crops (link)
Brussels, 08 Dec 2004 EFSA has established a self-tasking working group to study requirements for Post Market Environmental Monitoring (PMEM WG) in order to produce guidance for both applicants and...
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Draft Agenda of the 15th plenary meeting of the GMO Panel - 8 and 9 December 2004 (link)
Brussels, 08 Dec 2004 Full text European Food Safety Authority -- EFSA
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Can you sue under trade secret law if you registered the plant varieties? (link)
08 Dec 2004 One form of legal protection for biotechnology inventions, which is not often used, is trade secrecy. This right, in contrast to patents and copyrights, is not registered and is of...
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EU funds reconfigurable networks
Brussels, 08 Dec 2004 A new Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) project aims to expand and simplify existing and future networks of devices and embedded systems, enabling the billions of electronic...
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Call for proposals - NMP - nanotech, materials, new processes
Brussels, 08 Dec 2004 The European Commission has published a call for proposals for the thematic priority 'nanotechnologies and nanosciences, knowledge-based multifunctional materials and new...
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Top European regions rewarded for excellence in innovation transfer
Brussels, 08 Dec 2004 Six members of the PAXIS network for innovative regions were honoured in Stuttgart, Germany, on 6 December, while one was singled out with a distinction for its outstanding...
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Finland predicts decrease in R&D spending for 2004
Brussels, 08 Dec 2004 Despite revealing a rise in research and development (R&D) expenditure of four per cent in 2003, the latest figures from Statistics Finland suggest that overall research...
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SMEs in FP6
Brussels, 08 Dec 2004 Unioncamere and APRE, the Italian Agency for the promotion of European research, are organising, in collaboration with the European Commission, an information day on the role of...