Brussels, 13 February 2002 Belgian scientists have announced that global warming, caused by increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, will slow the Earth's rotation and result in longer days for...
Brussels, 13 February 2002 CORDIS, the European Commission's Research and Development Information Service, is launching a redesigned service dedicated to national and EU-funded research and...
Brussels, 13 February 2002 'Fellows for industry', an initiative supported by the European Commission which facilitates the access of EU academics to SMEs (small and medium sized enterprises), is...
Brussels, 13 February 2002 'Partners for life', the European life sciences network for SMEs (small and medium sized enterprises), has prepared a new catalogue for finding partners and submitting...
PM congratulates Welsh on reintroduction of grants Tony Blair congratulated the Welsh Assembly on the reintroduction of means-tested student grants during prime minister's question time yesterday. He...
Brussels, 12 February 2002 The commercial success of e-learning techniques has not been accompanied by the same optimism by the teachers and educational staff who use it, according to two new surveys...
Brussels, 12 February 2002 The European Commission has adopted the 2002 "eEurope Benchmarking Report", a communication providing a detailed snapshot of the development of the European Information...
BNP free to recruit on Greenwich campus Greenwich University says it is powerless to prevent members of the British National Party from recruiting on its campus. Following reports that a Greenwich...
Brussels, 12 February 2002 European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research - COST Secretariat. Note: Certain aspects of COST. Brussels, 8 February 2002 (document COST 211/02)....
Brussels, 12 February 2002 The European Commission has adopted a proposal to extend its university cooperation programme, TEMPUS, to a number of Mediterranean countries. The programme is to be...
Brussels, 12 February 2002 TRAIN-IT, which provides information to European entrepreneurs working in information society technologies (IST) on writing business plans, and is funded by the Fifth...
Plan to tax students but restore grants for poor Tony Blair is on the verge of restoring maintenance grants for poorer students in England as part of an overhaul of the student funding system. But...
Brussels, 11 February 2002 An international organisation is to be set up later this year to assist governments and health researchers in the developing world to negotiate better deals for drug access...
Grants reinstated for Welsh students Student grants are to be reintroduced in Wales from September, education minister Jane Davidson will announce to the Welsh Assembly today. Students in...
What was the weather like when you were in the womb? A few years ago John McGrath came up with the idea that the chances of developing schizophrenia depended on how sunny it was in the months before...