Brussels, 23 Oct 2003 The European Commission is organising a major international conference entitled 'risk perception: science, public debate and policy making', to take place on 4 and 5 December in...
Brussels, 23 Oct 2003 A conference entitled 'the broadband revolution takes shape' will be held on 2 December in Brussels. The event will be attended by EU Commissioner for Enterprise and the...
Brussels, 23 Oct 2003 The first international conference on environmentally compatible forest products will be held from 22 to 24 September 2004 in Oporto, Portugal. This meeting aims to bring...
Paris, 23 Oct 2003 Integral, ESA's powerful gamma-ray space telescope, has discovered what seems to be a new class of astronomical objects. These are binary systems, probably including a black hole...
Paris, 23 Oct 2003 'Fly-bys', or 'gravity assist' manoeuvres, are now a standard part of spaceflight and are used by almost all ESA interplanetary missions. Imagine if every time you drove by a city...
Paris, 23 Oct 2003 The Dutch solar car Nuna II, using ESA space technology, finished first in the World Solar Challenge, a 3010 km race right across Australia for cars powered by solar energy. Having...
Some lecturers could get pay rises of 20 per cent next year, according to figures released by employers this week. The news comes as the two main academic trade unions crank up the threat of...
A fizz of evaporating black holes could give a team of British physicists a glimpse into the fifth dimension. The experiment, which is straight out of the pages of a science-fiction novel, will be...
Dame Ruth Deech was this week appointed the first independent adjudicator for higher education. She will act as the ombudsman for student complaints nationwide, replacing the antiquated visitor...
Peter Goddard , master of St John's College, Cambridge and professor of theoretical physics, has been appointed director of the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Princeton, from...
Quality watchdogs are to raise serious questions about the standard of foundation degrees, casting doubt on the government's flagship higher education expansion policy. After the first-ever...
Student grants should be doubled to £2,000, although the government is also keen to waive fees, higher education minister Alan Johnson said this week. He told politicians and students gathered at the...
Introducing top-up fees could cost UK higher education millions of pounds in lost income from European Union students, the British Council has warned, writes Tony Tysome. The council is worried that...
Sir Alan Wilson, vice-chancellor of Leeds University, was this week appointed the first director-general for higher education, charged with driving forward the government's student access and...
IMPERIAL SUNSETS Hugh Thomas reflects on the nature of empires and the fact that they usually end at a time when no one expects it ALSO Philip Anderson finds Susan Greenfield's vision of the future...