Brussels, 09 August 2002 An international conference on alternatives to animal testing in biomedical research will take place in New Orleans, USA on 11 to 15 August. The event will focus on the '3Rs...
Brussels, 09 August 2002 The European Commission's Research DG is looking for a deputy Director-General. Candidates will need to demonstrate solid resource management experience. A background in...
Brown cloud threatens Asia and Europe A team of international climatologists led by Nobel laureate Professor Paul Grutzen has said they have identified the 'Asian brown cloud' -- a 10 million square...
Tonight is the night to wish upon a star A celestial light show is promised tonight - weather permitting - as the Earth ploughs through a thick cloud of comet dust. The Perseid meteor shower, which...
A detection service designed to tackle the growing use of internet cheat sites will be launched next month. Internet plagiarism, in which students cut and paste material from websites into...
Universities should recognise the work of inventors with a new type of degree, according to Britain's favourite inventor. Trevor Baylis, who developed the clockwork radio ten years ago, said the UK...
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council is abandoning the traditional watchdog approach to quality assurance for a new "quality enhancement" scheme to begin in 2003. Scotland's approach is...
Quality watchdogs are monitoring exam board Edexcel's functions as a higher education awarding body after it was found to be responsible for one of only six failing courses since 2000, writes Phil...
Staff at the Institute for Learning and Teaching are having to cope with a large rise in the number of applications from lecturers anxious to beat the deadline for the introduction of tougher...
Junior doctors are forced to work an illegal number of hours and are not left enough time for training, their professional association has claimed. One in three newly qualified doctors will find...
Universities should take responsibility for scholarly communication out of the hands of publishers by creating their own institutional repositories, writes Caroline Davis. The Scholarly Publishing...
Students may sue Birmingham University over staff cuts they say threaten the quality of their courses. All 12 academics in the department of cultural studies and sociology have taken voluntary...
A PhD student at Glasgow University is facing a police investigation and possible dismissal from his course after guaranteeing confidentiality to men confessing to the sexual abuse of children....
Over the past decade, the Spanish slug Arion lusticanus has been invading central Europe, displacing indigenous slugs and destroying crops. But the physiology of the slimy aggressor could prove to be...
North Birmingham College is to be consigned to the history books after the publication today of a fiercely critical Ofsted inspection report. The college will be merged with neighbouring Sutton...