Brussels, 12 Sep 2002 COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION MORE RESEARCH FOR EUROPE Towards 3% of GDP Table of Contents Full Text EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In March 2000, at the Lisbon European Council, Heads...
Tuesday Landing at Bahir Dar in North Ethiopia is unsettling. The conflict in Eritrea is close by and the airfield is a base for government Mig fighter planes. The window blinds are shut for take-off...
Brussels, 30 January 2003 Discussion Platform, Brussels, 30-31 January, 2003 Q. What are the background and objectives of this event? The need to increase crop yields in developing countries in a...
The University of Glamorgan is developing a raft of programmes that could help foster business regeneration in the valleys of South Wales. As proposals take shape for a super-university created...
12 centres to focus on innovation for industry Science minister Lord Sainsbury will launch 12 new research centres in a £120 million collaboration between the Engineering and Physical Sciences...
Employers are tokenistic about lifelong learning and are turning the idea of "employability" into little more than a "hackneyed catchphrase", according to an Institute of Employment Studies report....
Margaret Thatcher: Volume Two
Gloucestershire joins the university ranks England's first new university in a decade was created this week as the Privy Council confirmed that it had awarded the title to Cheltenham and Gloucester...
Universities up and down Britain this week announced job cuts as they struggled to balance their books in the face of falling student numbers and budget cuts. Staff at the University of Manchester...
The UK's army of part-time lecturers, who teach up to a third of undergraduate degrees, has lacked support and secure employment for too long, says Richard Blackwell. My experience of part-time...
Specialist posts, sabbaticals and secondments for academics and captains of industry and staff training have emerged as Scottish university strategies to exploit the commercial potential of research...
University of Leeds academics have won the following prizes: Richard Smithells , emeritus professor of paediatrics, has won the Kennedy Foundation's International Award for Scientific Achievement for...
In the second of our series on what the government must address in its upcoming strategy paper, Alison Goddard considers the case for top-up and differential fees. Despite prime minister Tony Blair's...
Brussels, 26 June 2002 Minister Birulés highlights these regions' potential for R&D stemming from their geographical features and variety of natural environments Las Palmas, 24/06/2002 In...
28 November 2003 Italy Hosts Second Follow Up Meeting to Earth Observation Summit The ad hoc intergovernmental Group on Earth Observations (GEO) will hold its second meeting on November 28-29 in...