Brussels, 16 Jul 2004 An international conference on intelligent systems for molecular biology will be held in Glasgow, UK, from 31 July to 4 August. This conference will have the broadest scope of...
Paris, 16 Jul 2004 At the invitation of ESA and CNES, the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) is holding its 35th Scientific Assembly in Paris from 19 to 25 July. As happens every two years,...
Paris, 16 Jul 2004 Team 1097 - Aberdeen University Despite having our reservations about flying on the 13th, we were about to let our superstitions get the better of us. After overcoming the initial...
Universities will have to give the Government a year's notice before closing struggling departments, the Treasury announced this week as part of its long-awaited ten-year investment plan for science...
Heard the one about the student who bought an essay and handed it in as his own, only to find it had been written by his tutor 20 years earlier? His tutor gave the paper top marks, commenting: "My...
Sir Tony Atkinson, warden of Nuffield College, Oxford, releases the interim report of his review into the measurement of public sector output and productivity on Monday. The review, commissioned in...
Kent University has awarded chairs to: Rod Edmond , professor of modern literature and cultural history; Paddy Ireland , professor of law; Abdulrazak Gurnah , professor of English and postcolonial...
"Institutionalised sexism" is denying female academics recognition for the research activity that is vital to their career prospects, a study by the Association of University Teachers has claimed....
'The website, which offers a database of essays for up to $30 each, is up for sale for about £15,000' A biblical studies graduate student who created an online essay-plagiarism business as part of a...
Universities are in urgent need of nationally agreed guidelines for the import and export of students, speakers at an international education conference said this week. The British Council has called...
Shifty candidacy Review of the Boston Globe 's book on the Democrats' presidential hopeful, John Kerry. Also Cash troubles: what are the financial prospects for UK universities? Lecturer for hire:...
Chancellor Gordon Brown this week set out the largest sustained increase in science spending for a generation, yet research leaders warned there would be very little money left over for new research...
The much-criticised dual-support system for research funding is here to stay, according to the Treasury's ten-year framework for science announced this week, writes Anna Fazackerley. Many in the...
The launch of a cross-government group to monitor the delivery of clinical research may not be enough to stop money getting lost in general hospital budgets, scientists warned this week, writes Anna...
Tim Gabriel, who is researching a PhD in nanostructured materials at Southampton University, welcomes the Government's drive to bring more young people into "problem" subjects such as chemistry. "I...