Brussels, 15 June 2005 The Structural Funds play a substantial role in promoting research and innovation in the European Union. Between 2000 and 2006, roughly EUR 13 billion will be spent on research...
Brussels, 16 Jun 2005 Full text of Document 2097/1/05 Revision 01 Working party will meet on the above date in order to finalize the following text from a legal and linguistic point of view:...
Brussels, 16 Jun 2005 Researchers have developed and prototyped a computer capable of human-computer interaction and realistic emotional expressions under a Fifth Framework Programme (FP5) project...
Brussels, 16 Jun 2005 Microsoft has announced a new approach to personal computing research, claiming that the principles that previously defined computing have changed. Speaking on 15 June, managing...
Brussels, 16 Jun 2005 A workshop aimed at informing SMEs on how to access European grants under the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) for developing new products and services will take place in...
McCartney school moves up a class Sir Paul McCartney, the former Beatles songwriter, is set to see his old school in Liverpool, which he rescued from dereliction, transformed into an international...
Candidate 1572. Marks please, Maureen. 67, 66, 59, 64, 63 and 65. And the average is 64.1. So under our rounding-up rules, the 67 and the 66 are rounded up to 70. And that gives us a new average of...
Colleges and universities sometimes need to be shocked out of their complacency to keep pace with changes in society - particularly among the young. Baroness Greenfield's remarks to the Association...
It is no surprise that students choose universities on more than simply academic grounds. Those who have observed the process - or remember their own criteria - will know that location, facilities...
The dilemma of a drop in applications from maintained schools to study sciences at universities goes much further and deeper than suggested in Trends in Higher Education (June 10). The true fault...
Thank you for highlighting the critical "shortage of medical academics" (News, June 10). I am a supporter of the International Campaign to Revitalise Academic Medicine (Icram) and a member of the UK...
The recent announcement by David Pearson, the Senate House librarian, that all members of the federal University of London - undergraduates, postgraduates and staff - will shortly have automatic...
The case for diagnosing the "Piano Man" as an autistic savant is compelling ("Autism experts offer to help in Piano Man case", June 10). If this unfortunate man is to receive the best care, he surely...
The review by Niall Dickson ("An all-out attack on a managerial cancer", June 10) of Allyson Pollock's book NHS Plc: The Privatisation of our Health Care reads more like a gutter-press diatribe than...
I see that I have once again been overlooked in the Queen's Birthday Honours list. This is after nearly 30 years of monitoring and reporting on the murdering quacks of the medico-pharma mafia, the...