Nanotechnology: opportunity or threat?
Brussels, 12 Jun 2003 Innovation is running ahead of regulation, claimed UK MEP Caroline Lucas at the first ever international seminar on the societal impacts of nanotechnology, held at the European...
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GALILEO: Loyola de Palacio welcomes the nomination of the Joint Undertaking's Executive Director
Brussels, 12 June 2003 The Supervisory Board of the Galileo's Joint Undertaking has decided today to design Mr Rainer GROHE as Executive Director. "This is a new step ahead for the project Galileo"...
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Philippe Busquin: Vers une participation accrue de la société civile dans l'Espace Européen de la Recherche, Conférence "Gouvernance de l'Espace Européen de la Recherche: Rôle de la société civile" Br
Bruxelles, le 12 juin 2003 Mesdames et Messieurs, A Lisbonne au mois de mars 2000, les chefs d'Etat et de gouvernement ont défini une ambition pour l'Union: devenir la société de connaissance la plus...
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OECD Conference on IPRs, Innovation and Economic Performance, Paris, 28-29 August 2003
Paris, 12 Jun 2003 This Conference is part of the broader project on Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation and Economic Performance launched under the aegis of the OECD Committee for Scientific...
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Education in Europe 2000-2001 In EU Member States, between 55% and 95% of 18 year olds are in education
12 June 2003 In the school year 2000-2001, 71% of 18-year-olds living in the European Union were still in the education system 1 . The proportion who remained in education was highest in Sweden (95...
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BioCity's head to make most of carte blanche
Risk aversion is not something that comes naturally to Glenn Crocker, the newly appointed chief executive of the UK's largest bioscience and healthcare innovation centre. Dr Crocker joined BioCity...
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Court shuts dark matter lab
Europe's largest underground physics laboratory, housed in three chambers in the Gran Sasso mountains of central Italy, has been closed by a court order after complaints from environmentalists after...
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EU-Israel pact fails to silence dissent
Academics should take individual action to frustrate the renewal of Israel's membership of the European Union's biggest research programme, the professor at the centre of last summer's boycott row...
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Today's news
Baghdad museum gets back looted vase The vase of Warka, one of the most treasured pieces looted from the Baghdad Museum during the war on Iraq, was returned yesterday. The coalition...
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Pro-life medics 'forced' to abort
Medical school policy must be reviewed amid evidence that students with religious objections to abortion are being coerced into taking part in terminations, the British Medical Association heard last...
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Oxford shortlist
Oxford University is expected to announce its new vice-chancellor in the next two weeks, taking the academic world by surprise as the nominating committee had until September. Interviews are...
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Elite six get £8m to mimic Chinese
Extra funding will be allocated to a group of leading universities over and above the sums awarded to the best research departments, higher education minister Margaret Hodge said this week. At a...
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Health academics fear NHSU will grab slice of research pie
Fears are growing in the medical academic community about possible plans to hand over part of the Department of Health's research budget to the new NHS University, writes Anna Fazackerley. Bob Fryer...
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Next week
Infidelity How do you measure up? Two views bad Did George Orwell attempt to quash dissent? Blair at 100 Jeffrey Mayers reviews two biographies of George Orwell Focus: Reference books, American...
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Whistleblowers: Oxford Brookes 'fails' osteopathy graduates
Almost 50 students could claim compensation totalling about£1 million from Oxford Brookes University after a third intake of students confirmed that they had joined a mass complaint that their degree...