From Darwin to Internet at the speed of light
Paris, 26 Nov 2002 Internet traffic jams may become history if ESA succeeds in developing new technology to see nearby Earth-sized planets. Why? In looking for new ways to detect planets ESA is...
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Falling fortunes of the lands of the rising sun
The Great Divergence
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Commissaire Philippe Busquin: Pour une Europe plus propre et plus sûre,Conférence de presse Présentation des communications de la Commission sur GMES et la Sécurité Bruxelles, le 3 février 2004
Bruxelles, le 3 f évrier 2004 Mesdames et messieurs les journalistes, je vous remercie de votre présence. Je suis heureux d'être ici ce matin, en compagnie de mon collègue Erkki Liikanen, pour...
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Commissaire Philippe Busquin: Pour une Europe plus propre et plus sûre,Conférence de presse Présentation des communications de la Commission sur GMES et la Sécurité Bruxelles, le 3 février 2004
Bruxelles, le 3 f évrier 2004 Mesdames et messieurs les journalistes, je vous remercie de votre présence. Je suis heureux d'être ici ce matin, en compagnie de mon collègue Erkki Liikanen, pour...
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Report of CREST meeting (scientific and technical research) on 8 February 2002
Brussels, 9 April 2002 Scientific and Technical Research Committee ­ CREST ­ Secretariat. Summary conclusions of the 281st meeting of the Scientific and Technical Research Committee (...
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The price of success
Although R&D is vital to the bottom line, many British companies seem still not to have got the message. Martin Ince reports Are British companies finally getting enthusiastic about spending...
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In the news
The key contender to succeed Henry McLeish as Scotland's minister for enterprise and lifelong learning is Wendy Alexander, dubbed "the pint-sized policy powerhouse". Noted for her...
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V-cs: London costs a deterrent
Vice-chancellors at London universities have told London mayor Ken Livingstone that exorbitant housing costs and a failing transport system are threatening the future of their institutions. The...
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Currency before exchange
UK universities prefer fee-paying students to European ones. Anne Corbett laments our policy on mobility. Is it an idea whose time has come - that British students catch up with their continental...
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Research top of political agenda
PM Howard puts knowledge economy centre stage in green paper. University research and research training are issues flying high on Australia's political agenda. More than a decade after the last...
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Glittering prizes
Kate Storey , a principal investigator who runs a research group in the Wellcome Trust Biocentre at the University of Dundee, has received a five-year senior non-clinical fellowship worth £900,000...
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Bath loses research cash as Warwick poaches staff
The University of Warwick's business school has poached seven top researchers from Bath University, and in doing so has prevented Bath from claiming credit for any work completed by the team - headed...
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From today's UK papers
Literacy teaching still inadequate, says Ofsted Around 40 per cent of seven-year-olds cannot read and write properly because their teachers are not using the right methods and the government's...
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Prepare to ring the changes
Competition in Telecommunications
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Draft conclusions of CREST meeting (scientific and technical research), 8 February 2002
Brussels, 8 March 2002 Scientific and Technical Research Committee ­ CREST Secretariat. Draft summary conclusions of the 281st meeting of the Scientific and Technical Research Committee (...