Brussels, 6 February 2004 The GALILEO joint undertaking has completed the first phase of the procedure for selecting the future concession holder of the European satellite navigation system. The...
Brussels, 06 Feb 2004 FINAL A5-0003/2004 13 January 2004 REPORT on the communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council on the state of progress of the Galileo programme...
Brussels, 06 Feb 2004 FINAL A5-0012/2004 23 January 2004 Type of Procedure: Consultation procedure REPORT on the proposal for a Council decision concerning the conclusion, on behalf of the European...
Brussels, 06 Feb 2004 Ispra (I): 14 representatives from 8 Accession Countries (Estonia, Lithuania, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, and Malta) attended a workshop at Ispra...
Brussels, 06 Feb 2004 I. GENERAL REMARKS UNICE has always supported attempts to harmonise patent law for the benefit of users of the patent system. However, while international harmonisation of...
A new group of five leading universities is bidding for an increased share of any extra cash in the government's summer spending review. The group, which calls itself the G5, warns that without more...
Robin Butler, master of University College, Oxford, and newly appointed chair of the inquiry into prewar intelligence on Iraq, is better known for his long tenure as a civil servant under...
University College Worcester has appointed: Howard Cox , professor of international business history and co-director of the Centre for International Business Studies at London South Bank University,...
Oxford University confirmed this week that it is building a facility for laboratory animals, underlining determination in the science community that animal research will continue despite protests by...
The Scottish Liberal Democrats are playing down fears of a split with their Labour partners in the Scottish Executive over the future of the graduate endowment. Just before the Commons vote on top-up...
The University of Abertay Dundee is helping to rebuild the economy of a Lithuanian town that until recently had never appeared on the map because it housed a secret nuclear power station, writes Olga...
Don go breaking my heart The personal cost of the academic long-distance relationship. ALSO Prize guys P. W. Anderson reviews a book on the wisdom of fellow physics Nobel laureate Richard Feynman;...
The THES 's giveaway book on Machiavelli proved so desirable that one enterprising reader sold their copy for £10 on the internet auction site eBay. Bidding for the book, A Very Short Introduction to...
Most further education is satisfactory or better, although nearly one in ten colleges that has been inspected is "inadequate", according to Ofsted's annual report for 2002-03, which was published...
Lecturers at Leicester College began an all-out strike this week to protest against the introduction of a staff contract that, they say, has not been negotiated with union leaders. Lecturers' union...