Who's in, who's out?
Crichton campus. Ted Cowan will be Glasgow University's new head of operations at Scotland's first multi-institutional campus at Crichton. Crichton, the estate of a former psychiatric hospital,...
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Draft Council Conclusions Relating to the Seventh Framework Programme and Future European Policy to Support Research (link)
Brussels, 18 Nov 2004 Full text of Document 14733/04 Suite of documents 14733/04 No. prev. doc.: 12898/04 COMPET 155 IND 123 RECH 181 No. Cion prop.: 10740/04 RECH 134 - COM(2004) 353 final 12368/04...
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First "Space Council" to set course towards a European Space Programme - 25 November, Brussels
Paris, 18 Nov 2004 Ministers in charge of space affairs and those responsible for the internal market, industry and research meet in Brussels on Thursday 25 November for the first "Space Council", a...
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"I/A" Item Note on European Space Policy: "ESDP and Space"
Brussels, 18 Nov 2004 Full text of Document 14628/04 Suite of documents 14628/04 No. prev. doc.: 11616/3/04 REV 3 Subject: European Space Policy: "ESDP and Space" 1. The importance of space...
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Conference on Structural Genomics & Proteomics Research, Barcelona, 1-4 December 2004
Brussels, 18 Nov 2004 Draft programme More information DG Research http:///europa.eu.int/comm/dgs/research/i ndex_en.html
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More pharmaceutical research and innovation needed, says WHO
Brussels, 18 Nov 2004 The EU must play a leading role in public health and look to close the 'pharmaceutical gaps' that exist today, says a new report by the World Health Organisation (WHO), which...
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EU funds project to increase mobile phone reach
Brussels, 18 Nov 2004 The European Commission is funding a new Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) project aimed at developing satellite positioning systems that work via professional wireless networks....
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Switzerland creates science outposts in US and Asia
Brussels, 18 Nov 2004 The Head of International Affairs at the Swiss Science Agency, Claudio Fischer, was in Brussels, Belgium, on 17 November to explain how and why Switzerland is creating outposts...
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Austria sets off on road towards 'milestone' on research landscape
Brussels, 18 Nov 2004 'The Med-AUSTRON project is one of the largest research projects in Austrian history and a milestone for the Austrian research landscape,' declared the country's Education and...
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German government and Länder adopt research pact
Brussels, 18 Nov 2004 The German federal government and the country's Länder have signed a pact on research and innovation. The agreement will see the funding allocated to Germany's large research...
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Today's news
Brown to scrap levy on college spin-out shares Gordon Brown is to announce the immediate abolition of substantial tax liabilities on academics' shares in high-technology university spin-out companies...
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Today's news
Google puts new slant on scholarship Google has already transformed the way the web is used. Now the company behind the internet's leading search engine aims to change the academic world too, with a...
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Laurie Taylor Column
Mind if I sit here? My pleasure. Still keeping busy? Is the Pope a Catholic? Anything interesting in your Higher ? Hardly. Apparently the Government in the shape of the DTI has rejected the advice of...
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Will our family embrace a 'hobbit' as one of its own?
A diminutive relative's bid to join the human race has begun a fierce debate, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto  When they found her, her teeth were mashed to pulp, her bones rotted and soggy. She was...
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Leader: Will forum bring research U-turn?
When Sir Graeme Davies was asked to deliberate on the relationship between teaching and research at the height of the Government's difficulties over top-up fees, his forum seemed a classic vehicle to...