Paris, 18 April 2002 Today, at the European Space Agency Moscow office, Mr Antonio Rodotà , ESA Director General, Mr Charles Picqué, Belgian Minister for Scientific Research, Mr Yvan Ylieff, Belgian...
Modified genes enter Mexican maize crops The Mexican government has confirmed that despite its ban on genetically modified maize, there is massive contamination of maize in areas that act as the gene...
Training will cure prescribing errors, say experts Junior doctors should receive more training to prevent mistakes being made when prescribing medicines, experts said today. Bryony Dean and...
Funding chiefs will today launch a ten-year strategy to reshape higher education. Universities will be expected to excel in at least one of four areas - teaching, research, reach-out and widening...
* Chancellor Gordon Brown is to open the National E-Science Centre at Edinburgh University next Thursday. The centre, which is being run jointly with Glasgow University, received £5.5 million over...
Princess Anne was confronted by striking workers fighting budget cuts at King's College London when she visited the college's medical school this week. About 40 members of public-sector union Unison...
The Careers Research Advisory Centre has been awarded the contract to run the research councils' graduate schools programme for the next five years. The scheme is the main provider of training in...
Poorer students are being priced out of privatised halls of residence as rents rocket above inflation, public sector union Unison says. A Unison report says that rents have risen by up to 22 per cent...
The Athena Project has launched a guide to good practice on how universities can reduce the barriers to women's career progression. Contact: Athena@ecu.ac.uk
News Manchester united: Manchester University and Umist v-cs speak for the first time about plans to merge and create a super-university Features Avi Shlaim outlines a new way forward in the Middle...
Nottingham Trent University is to transfer management of its student accommodation to the private sector, the first time a United Kingdom university has made such a deal. In a deal worth a total of £...
Lecturers' union Natfhe has warned London vice-chancellors that they must consult unions over significant job cuts. University of Greenwich staff are being offered voluntary severance, particularly...
Liverpool John Moores University is one of several British higher education institutions that have secured grants from the latest €29.4 million (£18 million) budget for the European Union's Tempus...
The University of Lincoln and the United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust have created a joint fund to sponsor clinical, biomedical and biological research and to bring clinical and academic...
More than 400 academics across Europe have signed a petition that calls for a research and cultural boycott of Israel. The petition will be presented to British and European parliamentarians. It says...