ESA supports Reuters humanitarian trust
Paris, 20 June 2002 A collaboration arrangement was today signed between Reuters Foundation Director, Maureen Marlowe, and ESA's Director of Earth Observation Programmes, José Achache, at Reuters...
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Telecoms Council calls for IPv6 implementation to be speeded up
Brussels, 20 June 2002 More must be done to speed up the introduction of the new Internet protocol IPv6 (Internet protocol version 6), ministers agreed at the EU Transport and Telecommunications...
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Report on the proposed regulation on genetically modified food and feed
Brussels, 20 June 2002 FINAL A5-0225/2002 7 June 2002 REPORT on the proposal for a European Parliament and Council regulation on genetically modified food and feed Full text [...] These Commission...
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Candidate countries' commitments on nuclear safety: peer review status report (link)
Brussels, 20 June 2002 Peer review status report. "I" item note from General Secretariat of the Council to COREPER. Brussels, 5 June 2002 (document 9601/02 LIMITE ATO 68 ELARG 197; No. prev. doc.:...
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AIDS: Commission research leads to guidelines for treatment of HIV-positive pregnant women and infants
Brussels, 20 June 2002 New guidelines aimed at reducing mother-to-child transmission of HIV are emerging from European research. The guidelines for the treatment of various groups of HIV-positive...
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NSF encourages research centre partnerships between Europe and the USA
Brussels, 20 June 2002 The US National science foundation (NSF) is encouraging US research centres to find European partners for collaboration by offering additional funding to US research centres...
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Technology enabled learning network holds discussion forum
Brussels, 20 June 2002 PROMETEUS, a European network dedicated to identifying and dissemination knowledge and best practice in the field of technology enabled learning, will be holding a discussion...
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Iran to host Europe-Asia e-learning workshop
Brussels, 20 June 2002 An international workshop on e-learning platforms between Europe and Asia will take place in Teheran, the Republic of Iran, from October 29 to 31 2002. The EU aims to boost the...
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Update: 12:45
FE lecturers defect to schools Lecturers are quitting the further education sector in favour of "better terms and conditions" offered in schools, Labour's Gordon Prentice, MP for Pendle, told the...
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Today's news
Earth has close shave from large asteroid An asteroid the size of a football pitch and large enough to raze a major city missed the Earth by just 75,000 miles last Friday, a distance considered to be...
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Brazzaville
Fighting between rebels and government forces has spread to the campus of the National University of Congo. Classes have been suspended and students and staff evacuated.
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Paris
The ESSEC Business School and the Guanghua School of Management at Beijing University (Beida) have set up a partnership that will lead to student and faculty exchanges, and a double degree for MBA...
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Cool hero wards off gunmen on campus
Leicester University and police have hailed a 40-year-old bouncer a hero after he stopped a gunman from entering a campus club with 700 people inside. The head doorman (pictured) - who wants to be...
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Dearing appointed chair of think-tank
Higher education guru Lord Dearing has been appointed chair of the trustees of a think-tank being set up by the English funding council. The Higher Education Policy Institute will be headed by Bahram...
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University of the NHS moves closer
Ministers will receive a draft development plan for the University of the NHS in August, and a final version will go out for a 14-week consultation in September, Bob Fryer, chief executive of the...