Brussels, 21 Apr 2004 EU, national and industry funding has enabled the opening of the new Nanotechnology Research Institute at the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland. The new institute will be...
Brussels, 21 Apr 2004 A panel discussion on 'Education through research - the university concept' will take place in Brussels, Belgium, on 12 May. The discussion is intended to illuminate the role of...
Brussels, 21 Apr 2004 The third Moscow international congress will examine the subject 'biotechnology: state of the art and prospects of development' when it convenes in Moscow, Russia, from 14 to 18...
Paris, 21 Apr 2004 The DELTA mission, with European Space Agency astronaut André Kuipers from the Netherlands, and the ISS Expedition 9 crew, successfully docked with the International Space Station...
Have-not-students scrape by on £9.50 a week There is a yawning gap between the haves and have-nots among UK students, with 8 per cent surviving on only £9.50 a week while 10 per cent have £150 a week...
Suburb studies finds a home on the college agenda It is the place we love to ridicule - the mock Tudor home of the Bisto family where Tupperware is king and Shake n' Vac is the drug of choice. But...
Forget oil, overseas students make money A boom in demand for higher education could triple the number of foreign students at British universities to 870,000 by 2020, a new report concluded yesterday...
Brussels, 20 Apr 2004 Full text of Document 8440/04 Addendum 01 Suite of documents 8440/04 Subject: Commission staff working paper in support of the Communication from the Commission to the European...
Brussels, 20 Apr 2004 Full text of Document 6764/04 Suite of documents 6764/04 Subject: COUNCIL REGULATION establishing a Community programme on the conservation, characterisation, collection and...
Brussels, 20 Apr 2004 Full text of Document 8203/04 Suite of documents 8203/04 No. Cion prop.: 5124/04 Subject: Proposal for a Council Regulation establishing a Community programme on the...
Brussels, 20 Apr 2004 Full text of Document 264/04 Suite of documents 264/04 - This is an information document prepared by the President-elect in consultation with the proposed members of the JAF...
Brussels, 19 April 2004 The European Food Safety Authority's (EFSA) Scientific Panel on Genetic Modified Organisms (GMO) has published today two opinions on genetically modified maize MON 863 and the...
Brussels, 20 Apr 2004 The European Food Safety Authority's (EFSA) Scientific Panel on Genetic Modified Organisms (GMO) has published today an opinion relating to the utilisation of antibiotic...
Brussels, 20 Apr 2004 A European expert group has published 25 recommendations on the ethical, legal and social implications of genetic testing. The recommendations include a call for screening for...
Brussels, 20 Apr 2004 A detailed map of more than 20,000 human genes has just been published on the Internet by an international research team. Some 152 scientists from 40 research institutes from...