Brussels, 10 April 2003 The European Commission has formally requested that France, Luxembourg, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Austria and Finland adopt and...
Luxembourg, 10 April 2003 C-153/02, Valentina Neri v European School of Economics Opinion of Advocate General Jacobs on 10 April 2003 (link to English version when available). Full text This case...
EMBARGO: 10 April 2003 Ladies and Gentlemen, It is a great pleasure and indeed an honour to have been asked by the organisers of the Biovision forum to act as co-chairman at this plenary session here...
Brussels, 10 Apr 2003 Peter LIESE (EPP-ED, D) Report on Medicine: standards of quality and safety of human tissues and cells Doc.: A5-0103/2003 [may not be available yet] Procedure: Codecision (1st...
Firm sells essays to student cheats A Birmingham-based company is offering to write students' essays claiming they will never be found out by new university anti-cheating technology. For up to £50 an...
In an innovative approach to widening participation, the University of Birmingham approaches state schools and asks them to recommend pupils who might benefit from higher education, writes Alison...
The Welsh Assembly may decide against appointing an access regulator for higher education, it emerged this week. Assembly education minister Jane Davidson has asked the ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding...
The 70 centres of teaching excellence proposed in the white paper on higher education could be theme-based regional consortia of universities, colleges or departments, according to the Higher...
The salaries of Scottish researchers are too low despite better levels of university funding since devolution, according to a science agenda for Scotland published this week. It says that...
The UK's neutron centre at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory is to receive more than £100 million, the Department of Trade and Industry has announced. The money will pay for a wing at the Isis...
Brunel, Nottingham and Ulster universities are to set up a £6.3 million Multidisciplinary Assessment of Technology Centre for Healthcare to improve medical research and development exploitation. The...
Anglia Polytechnic University this week launched a postgraduate medical academy. The Centre for Postgraduate Medical Education will offer accredited courses for doctors, nurses and other healthcare...
Loughborough University has purchased a £35.5 million technology park. The 163-acre site, bought from Advantica Technologies, will allow the university to increase postgraduate and research student...
Northumbria University has removed anti-war material from the internet site of one of its leading psychology academics after warning that his messages could be offensive to students who support the...
The government has set Steven Schwartz, vice-chancellor of Brunel University, the task of identifying the relative merits of university applicants. Professor Schwartz and his team, which has yet to...