Universities are gearing up for the 2008 research assessment exercise with a bold programme of recruitment, restructuring and redundancies. A number of institutions are revamping research activities...
We will not set access quotas, Howells says Kim Howells, the new Higher Education Minister, this week insisted that the Government had no "backdoor agenda" to interfere in university admissions and...
Geneva, 14 October 2004 Statement by the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) at the Committee on Trade and Environment, Special Session of 12-13 October 2004. Paragraph 31(i...
Brussels, 14 Oct 2004 Full text of Document 13430/04 Suite of documents 13430/04 Subject: Initiatives to ensure the co-existence of GMO crops and other crops, including the setting up of a European...
Luxembourg, 14 Oct 2004 The Science and Innovation Framework Loan will support projects that are included in Poland's current and future Research and Innovation Investment Programmes. The EIB loan...
Brussels, 14 Oct 2004 Members of the European Parliament's Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) committee have delivered a positive verdict following the hearings of Janez Potocnik and Günter...
Brussels, 14 Oct 2004 Concerns about the health impacts of phthalates mean that some researchers were able to react quickly to the decision by the EU Competitiveness Council on 24 September to ban...
Brussels, 14 Oct 2004 A conference entitled 'Evaluations in the European Research Area' will take place in Maastricht, the Netherlands, on October. The conference will include discussions on the...
Brussels, 14 Oct 2004 An international commercial networking event on the biomarket and bioproducts for food will take place in Rothamsted, the UK, from 9 to 11 November. The Rothamsted International...
Brussels, 14 Oct 2004 The European Commission has issued a corrigendum to its call for tenders for support with the preparation of indicators, analysis and statistical issues related to the...
Brussels, 14 Oct 2004 Full text [...] General comments EUROCHAMBRES welcomes the Commission's intention to increase the research efforts at overall European level to attain the Lisbon and Barcelona...
More disturbing evidence of short-term casualisation in higher education - The Times Higher, October 8. Well, thank you for coming to see us today, Dr Cummings. I think everyone on this committee was...
Organisations that sell cars, food and houses have long had to face up to the fact that the attractive documents they use to persuade customers to buy may turn round to bite them when things go wrong...
There are few industries in which a company that has implemented price rises of per cent in the past four years can seem a model of restraint. But a new survey this week shows that this is the lowest...
With a little less flippancy and a little more thought, Gary Day (Opinion, October 8) would have made a more useful contribution to the debate on widening participation. Rather than bemoaning the...