Brussels, 11 April 2002 The European space agency (ESA) is planning its first mission to unveil the mysteries of Earth's sister planet, Venus. The Venus Express spacecraft, due for launch in 2005, is...
Paris, 11 April 2002 Over thirty international media representatives witnessed yesterday the christening of the first Automated Transfer Vehicle at ESA/ESTEC. Due for launch in late 2004, the first...
Paris, 11 April 2002 Today, at European Space Agency headquarters in Paris, Mr Roger-Gérard Schwartzenberg, the French Minister for Research, and Mr Antonio Rodotà , ESA Director General, signed an...
Brussels, 11 April 2002 Speaking to a Brussels audience on 10 April, President of the German research organisation the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Professor Hans-Jürgen...
Hodge puts case for poorer students Universities were urged yesterday by the higher education minister, Margaret Hodge, to give places to bright students - even if they had worse A-level grades than...
The personal papers of former newspaper editor Lord Cudlipp have been donated to Cardiff University's School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies. The collection includes more than 3,000 letters...
Universities in the United States are coming under pressure to drop companies with "substantial" business links with Israel from their investment portfolios. The disinvestment drive is spearheaded by...
The cycle of violence - Palestinian suicide bomb attacks in Israeli cities and Israeli tank attacks on Palestinian cities - has taken its toll on students and universities on both sides. Palestinian...
Ten students from the University of Sussex have returned to Britain after being trapped in the West Bank town of Ramallah during the Israeli army incursion. The students were among activists who...
The University of California last week recalled its remaining students from Israel and suspended study programmes there in the face of escalating violence. The students from the University of...
Higher education minister Margaret Hodge has told chancellor Gordon Brown that without extra money the government will miss its expansion target of half of 18 to 30-year-olds in higher education by...
Plymouth University is savouring the sweet smell of success with a £10,000 grant to fund equipment, books, project materials and travel expenses for students studying perfumery at the university. The...
Dundee University researchers Victor Skretkowicz and Susan Rennie are leading a project to put key Scots language reference dictionaries the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue and the Scottish...
Scientists are sceptical about claims that a woman treated by Severino Antinori, the Italian reproductive health scientist, is carrying a cloned child. Wilfried Feichtinger, president of the...
A group of small biotechnology spin-off companies received a £1.2 million boost this week, winning funding from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. The six projects were...