Brussels, 05 Dec 2002 The Commission has published two calls for experts to assist it in evaluating and selecting proposals for research projects to be funded under the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6...
Brussels, 05 Dec 2002 An EU funded website designed to stimulate informed debate on future energy sources this week launches a multi-lingual survey to gauge public attitudes to, and knowledge of,...
Copenhagen, 05 Dec 2002 1. Renewal of S/T cooperation agreement between Israël and the EC - information from the Commission 2. The European Research Area: - follow-up to "Competitiveness" Council of...
Edinburgh cancer centre gets royal opening The Princess Royal today opened a £7 million building, the focal point of Edinburgh University's new cancer research centre which will carry out clinical...
Top-up fees solution may be in sight The Australian model of top-up fees funded by loans and repaid after graduation via the tax system is emerging as the frontrunner in the government's frantic...
Public funding must remain the mainstay of higher education, argues Diana Green Are current student finance arrangements a barrier to participation in higher education? Delivery of the government's...
At first glance they seem an odd couple - the professor of planetary sciences at the Open University who wants to send a space probe to Mars and the British artist who won the Turner Prize for a...
The Learning and Skills Council will command a budget of more than £8 billion next year, rising to £9.2 billion by 2005-06, education secretary Charles Clarke announced this week. He told the LSC's...
Wolverhampton University has suffered a second chemical gas leak. A student received medical attention and three members of staff were also examined by paramedics after inhaling gas last Friday. The...
Harry Potter creator J. K. Rowling is supporting a new multiple sclerosis research group at Aberdeen University, headed by leading experimental neuro-immunologist Chris Linington. Professor Linington...
Most students on the MA diplomatic studies course at the centre of a row at the University of Westminster have signed a statement saying they support the course, the university said. Up to six...
Vice-chancellors this week welcomed the suggestion that a post-qualification admissions system - in which students apply for university after receiving their exam results - could work if the academic...
Stirling University is said to be one of the most beautiful campuses in the country. Its historic Airthrey estate has now been "twinned" with a mountain in what is said to be one of the most...
For decades, a bizarre, grub-like creature called Hallucigenia has stumped experts. But next week a true likeness of 505 million-year-old animal will be unveiled at the Palaeontological Association's...
The health secretary's refusal to renegotiate the consultants' contract could exacerbate the shortage of medical academics and undermine the expansion of medical education, the British Medical...