Brussels, 16 Dec 2005 A study by the journal Nature has found that the accuracy of scientific information contained in the free online resource Wikipedia is roughly the same as that of the...
Brussels, 16 Dec 2005 The final workshop of a Fifth Framework Programme (FP5) concerted action on neuroreceptor imaging will take place in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 2 and 3 February. 'Neuroreceptor...
Brussels, 16 December 2005 Ladies and Gentlemen, It is with great pleasure that I welcome you here today. Your presence demonstrates that the continued momentum behind European Technology Platforms....
Brussels, 15 December 2005 The European Economic and Social Committee considers in its opinion the Commission’s proposal to increase expenditure and to devote nearly 8% of the total...
Medical students face £20,000 debt The average debt faced by final-year medical students has topped £20,000 for the first time, according to a report to be published today. The British Medical...
Climate Change and Biodiversity - Climate Change and Africa
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel written by an 18th-century MP who died of yellow fever and was buried at sea. He was obliged...
The Origins of Value
The Cinema of Abbas Kiarostami
My Freshman Year
Letters from a Life
Historians in Trouble
Deadline: 15/01/2006
A 12-year-old pupil from Milton Keynes is set to be the first child to publish a research paper in a mainstream academic journal in the UK. Eleanor Denny from Loughton Middle School has had her paper...
University applications are down by about 5 per cent on this time last year - the first substantial evidence that top-up fees are deterring would-be students. Figures leaked to The Times Higher...