Brussels, 08 Jan 2004 The Belgian Royal Academy of Science is to publish a report on 15 January calling on European and national authorities, together with industry, to establish a technology...
Brussels, 08 Jan 2004 China's Shanghai Jiao Tong University has published a list of the world's top 500 universities, with disappointing results for Europe's institutions. The two year study took...
Paris, 08 Jan 2004 ESA's Mars Express orbiter made its first attempt to establish contact with the Beagle 2 lander, after the two spacecraft separated on 19 December 2003. The orbiter made its first...
Ministers are set to gamble on a £500 increase in grants for students from poor homes, easing the passage of the higher education bill published this week. Maintenance grants, to be introduced later...
Matthew Carter, a former politics tutor at York University, last week began his role as general secretary of the Labour Party. Aged only 31, he has had a meteoric rise through the ranks since joining...
George Fraser has been appointed director of the University of Leicester's Space Research Centre, taking over from Alan Wells, who will continue as emeritus professor on the Beagle 2 and Swift...
Could the HE bill be Labour's poll tax? The THES looks at its implications and assesses its chances For the first time in history a UK prime minister has staked his premiership on higher education....
"We either have a fair contribution from students or we deny opportunities for hundreds of thousands by cutting university numbers. Or we raise taxes for everyone, including the majority who have not...
The higher education bill is expected to address more aspects of higher education than just headline tuition fees issues. The bill will replace upfront fees with tuition fees that are repayable after...
Labour MPs Peter Bradley and Alan Whitehead have submitted a paper to the government urging it to convert the postgraduation fee remission to upfront, cash-in-hand maintenance grants. They want a...
Birmingham University students have attacked plans for variable fees. Jenny Elliott , 20, a third-year medical student from Sheffield, said: "It will lead to a two-tier education system. It will...
The team of scientists behind the Beagle 2 Mars probe will keep searching for the lost spacecraft well into February after the latest attempt to contact it failed on Wednesday. The first fly-by of...
Entries for this year's Aventis prizes for science books, which reward the best popular science writing for adults and children, should be submitted by February 6. Longlists are announced in March...
Monitoring and recording of work to improve environmental sustainability should become a condition of grant for Scottish universities, according to a motion to be put to the Scottish Parliament by...
Jim Skea, director of the Policy Studies Institute, has been awarded an OBE in the new year honours list in recognition of his work in sustainable development research, particularly in transport. He...