Brussels, 09 Jul 2004 The Commission's Research DG is helping to organise a series of information and brokerage seminars in anticipation of the third call for proposals under the sustainable energy...
Brussels, 09 Jul 2004 The European Commission's Energy and Transport DG has published a prior information notice concerning a future study on the large-scale development of hydrogen and fuel cell...
Brussels, 09 Jul 2004 About the conference (PDF 58 kB) Programme (PDF 294 kB) Registration Venue: Borschette Conference Centre, rue Froissart 36, 1040 Bruxelles PDF Map (90 kB) with directions...
Paris, 09 Jul 2004 On 13 July ESA and EADS Space Transportation will sign a 1 billion Euro contract which allows Europe to start the initial exploitation of the International Space Station. The...
Paris, 09 Jul 2004 To study neighbouring planets, distant stars and galaxies light years away, astronomers have constantly strived to improve their instruments. But for years, our Earth's atmosphere...
A £100,000-a-year carrot awaits whoever has skin thick enough to become the bogeyman - or woman - of vice-chancellors across the land. The Times Higher this week carries the first job advertisement...
Vice-chancellors are unlikely to be great fans of Peter Leon Quinn, but they must surely admire him for his tenacity. Mr Quinn was exposed on the front page of The Guardian this week for selling...
Oxford University has appointed Douglas Holt , associate professor at Harvard Business School, L'Oreal professor of marketing and fellow of Worcester College; and Michael Sheringham , professor of...
Grants worth up to £185 million made to universities to boost their business links last month could be in jeopardy because of a legal challenge from vice-chancellors who missed out on the awards....
Frustrated by the inability of so many people to spell his name correctly, the linguist Vivian Cook set out to discover why English people find it difficult to spell everyday words. The fruits of his...
Campus accommodation provider Jarvis said this week that its financial crisis will not affect students living in halls of residence that it built and manages, writes Alan Thomson. Jarvis has invested...
Cash could be shifted from from primary schools to support expansion in higher education, Charles Clarke, the Education Secretary, signalled this week. He told members of the Education and Skills...
MPs this week urged the government to introduce tough new US-style laws to deal with animal rights extremists who terrorise scientists and their families. Opening a debate in London's Westminster...
UK universities' work overseas will gain momentum as the result of a new policy document due from the Government this year. Charles Clarke, the Education Secretary, told the Education and Skills...
Government proposals to make degree-awarding powers available to private and corporate institutions on a fixed-term basis only could be open to legal challenge, the Council for Industry and Higher...