Brussels, 8 September 2004 The European Commission approved today the inscription of 17 varieties derived from MON 810 maize in the Common EU Catalogue of Varieties of Agricultural Plant Species....
Brussels, 08 Sep 2004 The European Commission has adopted a proposal to be sent to the Council of Ministers to authorise the import and processing of the genetically modified oilseed rape known as...
Brussels, 08 Sep 2004 Full text of Document 12113/04 Addendum 01 Suite of documents 12113/04 Subject: COMMISSION STAFF WORKING PAPER Annex to the report from the Commission to the Council and the...
Brussels, 08 Sep 2004 The UK's biotechnology industry has welcomed the announcement of a new study by the UK government that will investigate the impact of pre-emption rights on companies' ability to...
Brussels, 08 Sep 2004 A new analysis of broadband penetration rates in the EU has concluded that while the availability of high-speed Internet services in the new Member States currently lags far...
Brussels, 08 Sep 2004 The European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) has published a call for tenders for further developments in applied general equilibrium energy and climate policy...
Brussels, 08 Sep 2004 The European Environment Agency has published a call for tenders for a feasibility study on modelling environmental concentrations of chemicals from emission data. The aim of...
Brussels, 08 Sep 2004 The European Commission has published a corrigendum to its call for tenders on private sector interaction in the decision making processes of public research. Tender documents...
Brussels, 08 Sep 2004 The European Commission has published a corrigendum for its call for tenders on examining the design of research programmes. The deadline for requesting tender documents has...
From : The Office of the Vice-Chancellor To : All Academic Staff I understand that questions have been raised about academic pay at Poppleton after an analysis by The Times Higher of average salaries...
Next week's annual meeting of Universities UK should have been a quiet affair -the calm before the storm, perhaps, with vice-chancellors celebrating good news from the spending review and keeping...
The British Association for the Advancement of Science did well to choose "responsibility and science" as the theme for its meeting this week in Exeter. In the modern world, people are surrounded by...
Some A levels are easier to obtain than others, according to research by Peter Tymms, ("Study calls for grading reform", September 3). In particular, sociology is identified as "easier" than 16 other...
Some A-level subjects are easier than others based on comparisons with GCSE results? Are we assuming all GCSEs are equally difficult but not all A levels? This could go on for some time. Richard Kamm...
Your report on the pulping of an official history by London Metropolitan University came as no surprise ("Book pulped at LondonMet", August ). The university appears to make a habit of banning books...