Lord Sainsbury, the Science Minister, and Janez Potocynik, the European Research Commissioner, have reiterated their support for a Europe-wide funding agency for basic research despite continuing...
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Brussels, 10 October 2005 The EU Competitiveness Council will meet in Luxembourg on Tuesday 11th October at 10.00 under the chairmanship of, the Alan Johnson, United Kingdom Secretary of State for...
Brussels, 29 Sep 2004 If any members of the Deans' European Academic Network (DEAN) questioned the significance of the theme for their annual conference in Porto, Portugal, on and 28 September (...
Nottingham’s Jubilee Campus is notable not just for its design but also for its role in regeneration, as Matthew Baker reports Back in the 1960s, T. Dan Smith, the maverick leader of Newcastle City...
The Treasury is privately planning to claw back a significant proportion of the science funding that it committed in its much-vaunted ten-year review of science last summer, The Times Higher has...
Enterprise Commissioner Günter Verheugen: The Importance of Space, International Space Conference (link) Brussels, 17 February 2005 I am delighted to welcome you here in Brussels at this...
As ballot papers went out, just a handful of members came to hear candidates for the UCU's top job, and most were unimpressed. Tony Tysome reports It might have been expected that hustings for the...
It pays to study people and their mores. Stephen Phillips learns why the corporate spotlight is turning on anthropologists A bland office building in a suburb of Portland, Oregon, seems an unlikely...
Brussels, 07 Jul 2006 Full text [...] Recommendations 1. During the last two decades, a new competitive international system of science and technology has emerged. To promote its goals, the EC needs...
Brussels, 01 Sep 2004 The European Commission has organised a high level workshop in order to present examples of good national and regional polices for boosting the competitiveness of the...
Chancellor hints at higher top-ups to boost coffers, says Olga Wojtas The UK must spend more on higher education, Chancellor Gordon Brown said this week, hinting that a rise in top-up fees might...
With the EU about to grow again, Anthony Giddens found its citizens unsure of their raison d'être . But, Michael North hears, he thinks reforms can restore faith and help even the Brits learn from...
Brussels, 12 Oct 2006 The China-EU Science and Technology Year (CESTY) was officially launched in Brussels on 11 October. Through a series of events planned in Europe and China, the year-long...
Brussels, 02 Jun 2006 The news: The fifth Community Aeronautics Days event is to take place in Vienna. With up to 1,000 participants expected, this is a key event for European research and technology...