Brussels, 19 Feb 2004 The countdown is on. Just over two months away, ten new countries will join the EU's swelling ranks. Hungary might have been a poster child during the enlargement process, but...
Brussels, 19 Feb 2004 Tibetans who live at over 3,500 metres above sea level have, at least in part, inherited a system of protection against the effects of lack of oxygen on their muscle tissue,...
Brussels, 19 Feb 2004 Greek and US researchers have developed a reactor capable of producing hydrogen from ethanol. The scientists, from the University of Patras and the University of Minnesota,...
Brussels, 19 Feb 2004 An international forum on advanced microsystems for automotive applications will take place in Berlin, Germany, on 25 and 26 March. Microsystems applications in automobiles have...
Vice-chancellors have again accepted pay rises far higher than those offered to their staff, prompting accusations of double standards from academic unions. The average pay rise in 2002-03, the...
Sex has been in decline for more than 20 years in the pages of academic journals. The fall has been matched by the steady rise of the word "gender", which now dominates social sciences, arts and...
Sweeteners that could be paid to graduate recruits from the public purse are to come under scrutiny in a review led by Sir Alan Langlands, principal and vice-chancellor of Dundee University. The...
The University of Leeds has appointed: Paul Garner , former professor of Spanish and Latin American studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London, Cowdray chair of Spanish; Garik Markarian to a...
The row over Bristol University's decision to offer lower entrance grades to disadvantaged state-school pupils has been followed by a drop in the number of applications, according to figures out this...
University staff could be vetted by the Criminal Records Bureau if proposed reforms of the school-exam system lead to more under-18s applying to higher education, it emerged this week. The Tomlinson...
Textbook guide 16 pages of reviews of the latest textbooks. Also The fate of Indians in the Amazon : A review of John Hemming's Die if you Must. Books focus : Women's and gender studies Back to the...
The government's public debate about genetic modification overestimated the strength of anti-GM feeling in the UK, new research has found. Researchers at Cardiff University, the University of East...
Southampton University said this week that it had made no decisions over the future of its sports courses after media reports that hundreds of students were likely to be "farmed out" to local...
Students took to the streets in Northern Ireland this week - in their cars. Ulster University undergraduates and staff from the three main campuses parked in streets around the sites to protest...
Swansea University managers came under renewed pressure this week to abandon restructuring plans that would lead to the closure of four departments. More than a hundred students protested as Richard...