Brussels, 31 Jul 2003 Israeli scientists have succeeded in using a beam of sunlight to remove a lesion from a liver during surgery. So far the technology has been limited to use on animals. The team...
Brussels, 31 Jul 2003 The fact that fewer proposals were received for the new funding instruments under the first call for proposals for the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) than were received in...
Brussels, 31 July 2003 Today the Commission presents the future structures for managing the GALILEO programme in its deployment phase (2006-2008) and operational phase (from 2008). Two structures,...
Brussels, 31 Jul 2003 The EU's Agriculture Council has adopted a Decision amending the convention for the protection of vertebrate animals used for experiments and other scientific purposes. The move...
Brussels, 31 Jul 2003 A workshop on the second 'information society technologies' (IST) call under the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) will take place on 11 September in Paris, France. The workshop...
Brussels, 31 Jul 2003 The European Geophyisical Society will hold its 2004 General Assembly from 26 to 30 April in Nice, France. The occasion will provide an international forum for the exchange of...
Brussels, 31 Jul 2003 The eight international conference on environmental science and technology will take place from 8 to 10 September on Lemnos island, Greece. The main purpose of the event is to...
Paris, 31 Jul 2003 How can we more effectively harness the free and endless energy resources of the Sun, wind and water? One answer is orbiting above us. Satellites provide us with a wide variety of...
When I completed my PhD in philosophy seven years ago, I didn't want an academic career. Since then, I have at various times been tempted to revise my opinion and have even made a few speculative job...
What is your experience of teaching? Pat Leon asks teachers how they manage. Name: Rakesh Bhanot Age: 52 Job: Senior lecturer in educational development (0.5) in the Centre for ÌÇÐÄVlog...
Fielding phone calls at 3am is but one of the challenges facing 'instructors' who preside over the University of Liverpool's virtual classrooms. Yoram Kalman reports. The benefits of the 24-hour...
Tony Tysome begins our summer series looking at the impact of universities on their local economies and communities. Loughborough University is working hard to convince local residents of the value...
Tony Tysome begins our summer series looking at the impact of universities on their local economies and communities. Regular travellers along University Road in Leicester may soon witness a symbolic...
A US academic could face the sack after The THES discovered that he had plagiarised almost an entire research paper on the Korean stock market, lifting data figure-for-figure and falsely attributing...
1990-91 * Institute for Public Policy Research meetings involving several centre-left thinkers conclude that tuition fees and student loans are necessary to fund higher education expansion 1992 *...