Brussels, 10 Oct 2003 The European Commission has published a call for proposals in the area of 'sustainable energy systems: research activities having an impact in the medium and longer term' under...
Paris, 10 Oct 2003 Follow the Cervantes launch and docking with the International Space Station from one of ESA's establishments. The launch of ESA's Cervantes mission to the International Space...
A professor of education at Durham University has accused administrators of withholding £1.6 million of her centre's research income to reduce the university's financial deficit. Carol Fitz-Gibbon...
Rick Trainor has been appointed principal of King's College London, making him the first head of a former polytechnic to take the helm of a Russell Group institution. Professor Trainor, vice-...
Nottingham University physicist Sir Peter Mansfield confesses that his Nobel prize for medicine, awarded this week, came as a bolt from the blue. "I am obviously very pleased and honoured, but I...
* Caroline MacDonald, assistant principal at the University of Paisley, has been elected chair of the Modern Universities Research Group. * Margaret Smith, microbiologist at Nottingham University,...
Traditional degree classifications could soon be scrapped following new research that shows that most universities are already giving graduates aggregate final marks as part of new transcripts of...
A university degree may add less to a graduate's lifetime earnings than previously indicated by the government, according to its own figures. Data from the Department for Education and Skills show...
Poor students are four times less likely to go to university than their better-off counterparts who are more relaxed about incurring debts, according to new research that raises big questions about...
An Oxford academic is to be the new secretary-general of the Association of Commonwealth Universities. John Rowett, chief executive of the Rhodes Trust, will succeed Canadian Michael Gibbons when he...
Market-obsessed scientific publishers are ignoring the interests of science and the public, the Wellcome Trust has said. The trust published an independent analysis of the £22 billion research-...
Journalism students at the University of Westminster won all three BBC awards for up-and-coming investigative journalists. The gold award went to Samantha Washington and Phillip Kemp for their...
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics has begun a consultation on the use of genetically modified animals in research. Nearly a quarter of animal experiments last year used GM animals, ten times more...
A Centre for Excellence in Leadership that will train college principals, chief executives and managers in the post-16 sector opened yesterday. It is run by a partnership led by Lancaster University...
Esso, the oil giant owned by ExxonMobil, has denied claims that it has been driven out of the university recruitment milkround. Student pressure group People and Planet has claimed victory in a two-...