Australia's vice-chancellors have no idea what federal funding they will get after 2004 because of political opposition to the government's proposed changes in higher education funding and its...
A search for a new candidate to fill a prestigious chair at a Canadian university is expected to begin in the new year, some three years after a former Massachusetts Institute of Technology academic...
The University of Zimbabwe has suspended three leaders of the local Association of University Teachers, banning the lecturers from campus in a clampdown on dissent over salaries by strike-threatening...
Brussels, 02 Oct 2003 Proposal for a COUNCIL DECISION concerning the conclusion of an Agreement aimed at renewing the Agreement for scientific and technological cooperation between the European...
Brussels, 02 Oct 2003 Senior scientists, university heads, industrialists, policy makers and representatives from civil society at large, will gather in Liège, Belgium, in April 2004. They will chart...
Brussels, 02 Oct 2003 Precautionary principle expert Professor Ortwin Renn told participants in a lunch debate on 1 October that policy makers and scientists should use one of five risk management...
Brussels, 02 Oct 2003 In addition to a lack of standardisation, one of the main obstacles to the integration of miniaturised electronic components in the aeronautics field is the difficulty of...
Brussels, 02 Oct 2003 The French ministry responsible for research and technology has announced a series of measures to boost research and development in France. The measures include an increase in...
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