Strasbourg, 30 Sep 2002 Provisional list - for information only - Signatures and ratifications at the Council of Europe - Week from 30 September to 4 October 2002 2 October 2002 Norway will ratify...
Exam board parries rumour of litigation An examination board today condemned the litigious culture that has prompted fears that boards could be sued by students over the A-levels controversy. George...
Independent schools accuse top universities of bias Head teachers at leading private schools who triggered this year's crisis concerning exam grades yesterday moved to attack universities that...
Controversial university building project unveiled A £190 million private finance initiative (PFI) was announced today by the University of Hertfordshire. The new campus at Hatfield is the largest...
Copenhagen, Sep 2002 The Council is due to adopt the decisions establishing the five Specific Programmes for Research under the 6th Research Framework Programme 2002-2006 (EC and Euratom). It is...
Brussels, Sep 2002 On September 2002 Austrian Minister for Education, Science, and Culture Ms. Elisabeth Gehrer and Dr. Rainer Gerold, the European Commission's Director responsible for the EU...
Brussels, Sep 2002 On 10 October during the ABIS Workshop 2002 'Personalisation for the mobile world', in Hamburg, Germany, a special presentation of IMAGEN (Intelligent multimedia application...
Brussels, Sep 2002 A workshop funded by DG Information Society's Internet Action Plan entitled 'Protecting and educating children in the Information Society - lessons from European projects' will be...
Brussels, Sep 2002 The word innovation is rather nebulous. The concise Oxford English dictionary defines it as 'bringing in new methods' and highlights that it comes from the Latin 'innovare' which...
Brussels, Sep 2002 Canada has similar targets to many Western European countries. Targets to reach in terms of percentages of GDP dedicated to research and development, climbing OECD league tables...
AS grades may also have been cut as part of exam fiasco Thousands of teenagers who took AS examinations this year may also have had their results cut as part of the A-level "grade-fixing" scandal....
Northern Irish universities appeal to the senses Northern Ireland's two universities are appealing to the senses as well as to the intellect. Ulster University has unveiled a six-site Millennium...
Paris, 26 Sep 2002 From 28 September to 13 October, the European Space Agency (ESA) makes its debut at the Paris Motor Show (Porte de Versailles, Hall 2/2, stand 515). Its presence might seem...
Brussels, 26 Sep 2002 The European Commission has published a call for tenders for the e-Business Market Watch function (e-business watch). The successful tenderers will continue and further develop...
Brussels, 26 Sep 2002 The first SAIL (strengthening academic and industrial links) conference will be held in Coventry University's Technocentre on 28 November. The SAIL network looks at the...