Brussels, 11 Mar 2004 The European Commission's Health and Consumer Protection DG has published a call for expressions of interest for membership of the Commission's new non-food scientific...
Brussels, 11 Mar 2004 The European Commission has given prior information of its intention to call for tenders for a portfolio analysis of EC non-nuclear energy RTD (research and technological...
Brussels, 11 Mar 2004 CORDIS, the European Community's Research and Development Information Service, has developed a new service to follow discussions on the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). The...
Paris, 11 Mar 2004 Today the Rosetta Science Working Team has made the final selection of the asteroids that Rosetta will observe at close quarters during its journey to Comet 67P/Churyumov-...
Bashir beats dirty tricks to clinch Union presidency An Oxford Union tribunal approved the election of Ruzwana Bashir as its president after viewing a secretly filmed video that showed that...
The American Cancer Society has cut off all funding to researchers who take money from tobacco companies after a university study funded by the tobacco industry allegedly understated the harmful...
The number of enrolments at Australian universities has jumped by almost 40 per cent over the past five years and will exceed 1 million for the first time in 2004. Although increasing numbers of...
Quality standards implemented by universities worldwide have been updated to cover everything from how to welcome new students to records management. The International Organisation for...
The UK should do more to support low-income adults through higher education, says Jacqueline King Most universities are preoccupied with adjusting to what we in the US have termed the double whammy:...
Taking the government's word for the quality of mathematics courses in schools could put university standards at risk For decades, the decline in school mathematics has fed through into higher...
Peter Knight recalls that lust and food prompted him into political action as a student Today, Peter Knight is the UK's longest-serving vice-chancellor and head of the University of Central England...
Labour rebel Helen Clark, MP for Peterborough, who voted against the higher education bill during its second reading in the Commons, has won an apology and £5,000 in damages from The Daily Express ....
At last, the contingency plans to combat "death threats" from employers - who warned a fortnight ago that they would not release payouts to the families of striking academics who might die on the...
Accident victims who suffer a severe head injury are more likely to develop post-traumatic stress disorder if they are conscious during their ordeal, according to a study published by BMC Psychiatry...
Western Kentucky University's mascot, "Big Red", has allegedly been copied illegally by a company controlled by the Italian prime minister, the billionaire Silvio Berlusconi. Big Red, a scarlet...