Biotech patenting conference
Brussels, 30 Jan 2004 EuroLegal is organising an international conference on the latest developments in biotech patenting, to take place on 1 and 2 March in Munich, Germany. In the past year a number...
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Envisat completes its ten thousandth orbit around Earth
Paris, 30 Jan 2004 Around 7pm CET on 28 January 2004, ESA's Envisat spacecraft completed its ten thousandth orbit of the Earth – travelling a distance of 450 million kilometres since launch,...
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Environmental technologies are focus of new EU action plan on innovation, growth and sustainable development
Brussels, 29 Jan 2004 The Environmental Technology Action Plan (ETAP) was adopted by the European Commission on 28 January, with the dual objective of developing environmental technologies and...
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Civil society groups call for more communication between nanotechnology stakeholders
Brussels, 29 Jan 2004 The UK working group charged with carrying out a study on the likely developments in nanotechnology has heard calls for the creation of a 'space' where scientists, government...
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EMBO launches new life sciences mobility portal
Brussels, 29 Jan 2004 The European molecular biology organisation (EMBO) has launched a new online life sciences mobility consultancy (LSMC), with help from the European Commission's research...
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Jewellery industry innovation event
Brussels, 29 Jan 2004 A two day programme of exhibitions and seminars focussing on innovations in the jewellery industry will take place on 3 and 4 March in Birmingham, UK. JewelMed 2004 is organised...
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Successful Progress launch paves the way for further scientific utilisation of the ISS by Europe
Paris, 29 Jan 2004 Preparing for the arrival of the first European Automated Transfer Vehicle. Europe's scientific utilisation of the International Space Station (ISS) took an important step forward...
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Gloves off as bill enters round three
Ministers face renewed pressure for changes to key elements of the higher education bill despite their dramatic Commons victory this week. Rebel Labour MPs were confident of overturning the five-vote...
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Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? Bloomsbury welcomes icon home
Virginia Woolf is being welcomed back to Bloomsbury by British scholars in the final chapter of the literary giant's academic rehabilitation in the UK. Some 300 delegates will visit London this June...
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In the news: Austin Mitchell
Prominent rebel Austin Mitchell admitted to a certain sense of guilt on Wednesday morning after deciding a few minutes before the vote on the higher education bill to back the government over...
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Appointments
The trustees of the Commonwealth Institute have announced that Christopher Colclough , professor and director of the global monitoring report on Education for All, based at the United Nations...
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Labour rebels vow to fight on
Rebel Labour MPs vowed to continue their fight against the higher education bill in the next stage as the rush to get on to the committee began. Ian Gibson, a key rebel leader, said: "We will be...
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AUT call for debt probe
The impact of graduate debt on recruitment to academia must be examined urgently, says the Association of University Teachers. Charles Clarke, education secretary, this week announced a review of the...
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Youth drool at cool
Tony Blair should perhaps have recruited David Beckham, Brad Pitt and Justin Timberlake to sell the idea of top-up fees to students, if a survey by Leicester University psychologists is anything to...
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Treasury to cover cost of student support reforms
The Treasury will pay for many of the reforms to student support proposed by the government, leaving universities £1 billion better off as a result of the changes. During the second reading of the...