Faith simply portrayed
The front-page headline "Mary Warnock looks for God in a racy text" with a stained-glass image of the patriarch himself, inappropriately signalled your religious studies book reviews (THES, December...
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Conscious objector
Why did Susan Greenfield agree to review David Lodge's Consciousness and the Novel when she is self-confessedly not a literary expert ("Minds meet on a two-way street", THES, December 6)? Greenfield'...
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AUT is all for fairness
I was surprised that the Higher Education Funding Council for England accepts the excuses from some higher education institutions that the Association of University Teachers is delaying the use of...
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Merry Christmas
The latest news service is taking a break over the festive period and will resume on 2 January 2003.
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EU innovation performance still needs improving, but there are encouraging signs for the future
Brussels, 18 Dec 2002 The 2002 European Innovation Scoreboard, published today by the European Commission, reveals that the EU's innovation performance is still lagging behind the US and Japan,...
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Integral's first look at the gamma-ray Universe
Paris, 18 Dec 2002 INFO 10-2002. ESA's gamma-ray satellite, Integral, is fully operational. Today Integral's first ground-breaking images of the high-energy Universe were presented in Paris, France....
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FP6 1st Call and IST information day
Brussels, 18 Dec 2002 UKISHELP is organising a free IST information day, which will take place in London on 11 February 2003. UKISHELP is a DTI (Department of Trade and Industry) funded service for...
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Busquin calls for improved working environment for researchers in Europe
Brussels, 18 Dec 2002 EU Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin has announced his intention to urge fellow Commissioners, in June 2003, to adopt a communication on the career of researchers in Europe...
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Successful Ariane launch
Paris, 18 Dec 2002 Just after midnight an Ariane 4 soared into the sky above Kourou in French Guiana to place a new telecommunications satellite into orbit. This is the 113th successful Ariane 4...
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No 3G boom for at least five years, says Liikanen
Brussels, 18 Dec 2002 Erkki Liikanen, EU Commissioner for Enterprise and the Information Society, has said that he believes there will be no boom in the third generation mobile market before 2008....
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Thematic FP6 information days, Switzerland
Brussels, 18 Dec 2002 Euresearch, the Swiss information network for the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6), is organising a series of thematic information days in Olten, Switzerland. The schedule for...
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MEP calls for greater role for women and JRC in EU research
Brussels, 18 Dec 2002 The European Parliament adopted two resolutions on research and technological development on 17 December containing calls for further participation by women in EU research...
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Update: 12:45
Disabled students fail to get benefits Disabled students do not receive all the benefits due to them, data published today imply. Just 1.4 per cent of students receive disability benefit, according...
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Today's news
One in four university students drops out Nearly a quarter of the students who enrol at universities and higher education colleges leave without taking a degree, statistics published yesterday showed...
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Three calls for research, technological development and demonstration proposals, including one on nuclear energy (links)
Brussels, 17 December 2002 Calls for proposals for indirect RTD actions under the specific programme for research, technological development and demonstration: "Integrating and strengthening the...