Pundits predict a narrow Labour win
Tony Blair will win the 2005 general election with a majority of 70 to 100 MPs, according to three separate academic forecasts of the likely result on polling day, writes Paul Hill. The forecasts,...
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NAO tells Wales to turn out the lights
Welsh universities could save at least £500,000 a year just by switching off lights in unoccupied rooms and adopting other energy saving measures. A report from the National Audit Office says that...
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Vatican strategy 'shameful'
Italy's scientific community is furious over a Vatican campaign to undermine a referendum to repeal restrictive legislation on stem-cell research and artificial insemination. Late this year, Italians...
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French seek future security
French researchers have written to Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin demanding negotiations on long-term budgetary and employment planning for research that they claim should be central to proposed...
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Bologna progress slow for former Soviet states
Belarus, under pro-Russian President Aleksandr Lukashenko, remains the only European nation where the official attitude to the Bologna Process of convergence between university systems ranges from...
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Minister pelted with eggs in protest at reform
Russian Education Minister Andrei Fursenko was heckled and pelted with raw eggs as he announced plans for a three-tier university system topped by 20 elite institutions. He announced the location of...
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Australia plans fee incentive
The Australian Government plans to encourage foreign universities to open alongside the nation's state universities by allowing home students who enrol to take out government loans. Brendan Nelson,...
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Green light for Bhutan
The Royal University of Bhutan got the go-ahead to admit international students and to accept gifts and endowments to finance its work at a traditional ceremony attended by ministers and academics,...
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Country cousins miss out
China's town and city dwellers are significantly better educated than the rural population, according to a working group for the country's tenth Five Year Plan for national education. The group's...
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Mbeki strives to calm violence
South African President Thabo Mbeki has criticised student protesters who have severely disrupted universities since the academic year started in February. Several demonstrations have turned violent...
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Hike in visa cost will not deter foreign students
Immigration Minister Des Browne argues that a 'robust and fair' system requires a 'realistic' level of fee As Immigration Minister, I am well aware of the opportunities of globalisation. Some...
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On the move
Brigid Heywood , currently professor of inorganic chemistry and pro vice-chancellor (research and enterprise) at Keele University, has been appointed pro vice-chancellor (research and staff) at the...
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Internationalisation of R&D - opportunities outweigh risks, says Potocnik
Brussels, 31 Mar 2005 Today's increasingly global economy has many consequences, and in the scientific field perhaps the most obvious of these is the internationalisation of research and development...
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International forum for technologies in maritime and navigation,
Brussels, 31 Mar 2005 An international technology transfer day on the maritime and navigation field will take place in Palermo, Sicily, on 30 September. It will form part of the International Forum...
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Innovation and the Structural Funds - call for tenders
Brussels, 31 Mar 2005 The European Commission's Regional Policy DG has published a call for tenders for the strategic evaluation of innovation and the knowledge-based economy in relation to the...