Brussels, 18 Jun 2004 The European Commission used an international food conference on 17 June, organised by the Irish Presidency, to announce its readiness to award 192 million euro to new food-...
Brussels, 18 Jun 2004 The European Renewable Energy Centres Agency (EUREC) has called for more funding for renewable energy research. The appeal followed the publication of a Commission communication...
Brussels, 18 Jun 2004 Within the scope of the forthcoming Dutch EU Presidency, and with the support of the Commission, an international conference entitled 'Brain gain: the instruments' will take...
Brussels, 18 Jun 2004 An international conference on the impact of genomics on society will take place from 30 August to 1 September in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Genomics Momentum 2004 will...
Brussels, 18 Jun 2004 An international conference on artificial intelligence (AI) and neural networks will take place in Çanakkale, Turkey, from 14 to 16 July. The goal of the conference is to...
Paris, 18 Jun 2004 Photograph ESA's Rosetta comet-chaser has photographed itself in space at a distance of 35 million kilometres from Earth. The CIVA imaging camera system on the Philae lander...
Brussels, 18 Jun 2004 The European Commission has published a call for tenders for the monitoring and evaluation of information society technologies (IST) research: results and impact indicators. The...
Deadline: 19/07/2004
Thousands of graduates still earn less than £20,000 a year by the age of 30, according to research that will challenge the positive picture painted in this week's biggest-ever survey of graduates in...
A high-tech "Big Brother" could soon be monitoring students' every computer keystroke and mouse-click as universities step up moves to halt the alarming rise of internet plagiarism, writes Phil Baty...
Tim Collins is one of a very rare breed of politician - a Tory MP elected to the Commons for the first time in the Labour landslide of 1997. And he is an avid Dr Who fan. Since his election to the...
* Badi Baltagi, chair of economics at Texas A&M University and associate editor of the Journal of Econometrics and Econometric Reviews, has been appointed to a part-time chair at Leicester...
Health chiefs rattled by reports of a shortage of National Health Service dentists are pushing dental schools to increase student numbers by admitting reserve list candidates, The Times Higher can...
A bitter row has reopened between two eminent Ivy League academics over whether governments should have the right to torture terrorist suspects under interrogation. Last week's Times Higher carried...
One of the world's most prestigious academic publishers has been accused of promoting the use of "dirty tricks" in a document advising authors how to gain a competitive advantage over their rivals. A...