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...
Tuesday Below a fog of pollution and moisture, the Beijing summer is in full swing. We are on our way to shoot Shanghai Boom , the video for an Open University interdisciplinary course on the...
The Oxford Companion to Military History - Warrior Race
24/06/2004 Mesdames et Messieurs, Le Conseil européen du printemps 2003 (mars) a lancé un appel « pour que l’espace européen de la recherche et de l’innovation soit consolidé par la création de...
Brussels, 18 January 2002 An innovative type of driverless taxi which runs on tracks, developed under the EU-funded project EDICT (evaluation and demonstration of innovative city transport), was...
Pinpointing when hunter-gatherers became farmers calls for clever science and detective work. Geoff Watts met sleuths piecing together the evidence. The Neolithic revolution may not be as familiar as...
Paris, 18 Feb 2003 In the late afternoon of Friday 31 January, a final trim manoeuvre nudged Artemis into its assigned position in geostationary orbit, completing a most remarkable satellite recovery...
Brussels, 10 October 2002 A new High Level Group advising on Hydrogen and Fuel Cells (HLG) was launched today in Brussels by European Commission President Romano Prodi, Commission Vice President,...
Theory of Employment Systems
The success of Kumar Bhattacharyya's Warwick Manufacturing Group has been the envy of universities across the country. Started by Professor Bhattacharyya 20 years ago, with himself as the only...
Scottish higher education has won £120 million in a series of funding boosts for research and commercialisation. Scotland's share of the Science Research Infrastructure Fund is £45 million, but the...
Three leading players in commercialising academic research have told an influential Scottish parliamentary committee that existing methods for encouraging commercialisation are inadequate. Sir David...
The Penguin Archaeology Guide
 "The pharmaceuticals world, once I entered it, got me by the throat and wouldn't let me go. It had everything: the hopes and dreams we have of it; its vast, partly realised potential for good; and...
Open and distance learning is the future. David Hardy explains how Europe is overcoming the hurdles Higher education announces revolution more often than it achieves it. This is hardly surprising...