Student quota 'ageist'
Mature students are mounting a legal challenge to the government policy of targeting the under-30s for university expansion. The Mature Students' Union confirmed this week that it had instructed...
Search
-
-
Geology breaks new ground
A team of British scientists has chipped away at one of the bedrock theories of geology to find a new origin for the very ground beneath our feet. It is widely believed that the continental land...
-
Oxford joins US initiative to revive Iraqi academe
Oxford University is part of a US-led international coalition to strengthen archaeological and environmental teaching and research at Iraq's universities after years of sanctions, neglect and...
-
Today's news
Admissions tutors favour Baccalaureate over A level A survey conducted by the International Baccalaureate Organisation shows that 57 per cent of university admission tutors thought that International...
-
Philippe Busquin: Le rôle des parcs scientifiques dans l'espace européen de la recherche Manifestation des parcs scientifiques wallons - SPoW Bruxelles, le 9 octobre 2003
Bruxelles, le 9 octobre 2003 Mesdames et messieurs, C'est avec un grand plaisir que je me joins à vous pour l'ouverture de la manifestation des Parcs Scientifiques wallons. Parce qu'ils constituent...
-
Space policy - Call for EU to catch up with US spending
Strasbourg, 09 Oct 2003 Guido BODRATO (EPP-ED, I) Report on European space policy - Green Paper (2003/2092(INI)) Doc.: A5-0294/2003 [may not be available yet] Procedure: Own-initiative Debate: 08.10....
-
Other Business - Galileo (Extract from: Provisional report from the Transport Council of 9 October)
Brussels, 09 Oct 2003 Over lunch, Ministers discussed with Vice-President Loyola de Palacio on the state of play of the contacts with third Countries, among which the recent Commission's proposal for...
-
Agenda of the Research Working Party, 13 October 2003
Brussels, 09 Oct 2003 Full text of Document X04412/03 Suite of documents X04412/03 Researchers' careers Draft Council Resolution (DS 340/03) Doc. 12420/03 RECH 141 A.O.B. Council Register
-
Finalised Text of Council Decision on the Signing of the Framework Agreement Between the European Community and the European Space Agency (link)
Brussels, 09 Oct 2003 Full text of Document 12857/03 Suite of documents 12857/03 Subject: Council Decision on the signing of the Framework Agreement between the European Community and the European...
-
Commission answers calls for a European Research Council
Brussels, 09 Oct 2003 On the day that a panel of Nobel Laureates visited Commissioner for Research Philippe Busquin in Brussels to discuss the establishment of a European Research Council (ERC), the...
-
EU project sparks first attempt at mapping gene switches
Brussels, 09 Oct 2003 Following the successful completion of an EU pilot project investigating links between genetics and disease, German and UK consortium partners have announced that they are to...
-
Prize to reward appealing and accessible science
Brussels, 09 Oct 2003 The Altran Foundation is inviting nominations for its 2004 award, which has the theme 'discovering, understanding and enjoying science through innovation'. The award will go to...
-
Commission seeks participants in hydrogen and fuel cell technology platform
Brussels, 09 Oct 2003 The European Commission is inviting expressions of interest from stakeholders that wish to participate in the European hydrogen and fuel technology platform. Expressions of...
-
Symposium on innovation technology and nanotechnologies
Brussels, 09 Oct 2003 A symposium on innovation technology and nanotechnologies is being held under the auspices of the Italian Presidency in Brussels on 3 November. The event will bring together...
-
First extrasolar planets, now extrasolar moons!
Paris, 09 Oct 2003 ESA is now planning a mission that can detect moons around planets outside our Solar System, those orbiting other stars. Everyone knows our Moon: lovers stare at it, wolves howl at...