Brussels, 28 Nov 2003 Full text of Document X05456/03 Adoption of the draft agenda Approval of the draft summary conclusions of the 290th meeting Doc. CREST 1205/03 . Information from the Presidency...
Brussels, 28 Nov 2003 The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved funding for a new state-of-the-art research vessel being built to meet the needs of modern oceanography, a statement confirms....
Brussels, 28 Nov 2003 Towards the end of 2002, the Commission launched three large scale, pilot Integrated Projects in the field of genomics research for human health. A year into their work, the...
Brussels, 28 Nov 2003 France, the UK and the US are to provide financial backing for the establishment of an Iraqi Academy of Science. The academy will seek to attract research talent back to the...
Paris, 28 Nov 2003 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change delegations from across the world meet in Milan next week to address the problem of global warming - and ESA will be there to...
Brussels, 28 Nov 2003 Statutes marking the foundation of the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI) were signed in Vienna, Austria, on 26 November. The treaty was signed on behalf of the European...
Brussels, 28th November 2003 Takeover bids (JT) A compromise text presented by the Italian Presidency, not supported by the European Commission, was approved unanimously by the Council. Under this...
Brussels, November 2003 Introduction Today's meeting of the Competitiveness Council is a good demonstration of the central role that this Council will play in the future. This Council formation is...
Brussels, 28 Nov 2003 The Council took note of the written information given by the Presidency on the outcome of the European Convention on Life Sciences and Biotechnology held in Rome on 21 November...
My MA was cross-disciplinary: English literature and fine arts at the Barber and Shakespeare institutes at Birmingham University. It was 1976 - a dim time, when a curry was the only cultural...
Jonathan Bate tells Helen Davies why there will always be room for another edition of Shakespeare. "Editing Shakespeare is rather like painting the Forth Bridge: once you've finished you have to...
Higher education minister Alan Johnson was last week promised a state funeral if he dropped dead while voting for foundation hospitals within the Palace of Westminster. On the day of the foundation...
Technicians at Warwick University may find themselves left off Germaine Greer's Christmas card list this year. Callers to her office are greeted by a terse voicemail message from the professor of...
Brown jackets, that sartorial staple of campuses the length and breadth of the British Isles, are the must-have fashion item for men this season, The Times announced last week. Its fashion writer...
Christmas trees on a university campus in the US will be sprayed with the scent produced by skunks to deter thieves. The University of Minnesota plans to spray between 400 and 500 pine trees with...