Brussels, 20 Jan 2005 REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE COUNCIL AND THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT FOURTH REPORT ON THE STATISTICS ON THE NUMBER OF ANIMALS USED FOR EXPERIMENTAL AND OTHER SCIENTIFIC...
Brussels, 20 Jan 2005 Military issues have a disproportionate influence on how science and technology funding is allocated in the UK, says a report published on 19 January. The report 'Soldiers in...
Brussels, 20 Jan 2005 The treatment of burn victims or patients with severe disfigurements is set to be revolutionised following the development by scientists in the UK of an inkjet that can print...
Brussels, 20 Jan 2005 A Eureka project has developed a graphic screen enabling port managers and administrators to plan port operations, visualising the impact of one activity on another. Ports deal...
Brussels, 20 Jan 2005 Austria is currently in the process of finalising plans for a new University of Excellence that will offer graduate training, and whose impact will be observable internationally...
Brussels, 20 Jan 2005 A conference on the future of European Union research and development policies and opportunities for the new Member States will take place in Warsaw, Poland, on 4 February. The...
Brussels, 20 Jan 2005 A workshop on understanding the principles of electronic collaboration and dissemination tools that can be used to facilitate the implementation of Sixth Framework Programme (...
Family planning could play a decisive role in whether or not an infant will go to university in later life. Children born in September are 20 per cent more likely to enter higher education than those...
For an insight into the size of the task of ensuring that universities open their doors to students from poor backgrounds, the man charged with spearheading the initiative need look no further than...
The Nineties saw women enter university in record numbers - and they gain a far greater proportion of degrees than men. Should entrance requirements for male students now be lowered to correct this...
A £500 bursary will greet 17-year-old Ahmed Bana if he fulfils his aim of securing a place to study medicine. But the cash will not come from the university or the Government, but from his school,...
Brightside was the area of Sheffield hit hardest by the decline of the steel industry in the 1980s. It has high levels of second and third-generation unemployment, and the 1981 Census found that it...
Divisions in educational opportunities are found at every scale of the map, but the most stark are often between young people just streets apart, writes Lee Elliot Major A few hundred metres can make...
BRIGHTSIDE PUPILS The 1981 Census found that Brightside had the UK's highest proportion of people in unskilled jobs. Pupils there do not see a degree as necessary. Jessica Dalton is thinking of...
Poor students tend to stay in their home area and go to post-92 institutions despite getting top A-level grades. If they took their fair share of places at leading universities, 3,000 privately...