Brussels, 03 Sep 2002 The European Commission's Research DG has issued a call for tenders for support in a study on local ethical committees for animal welfare. The European Commission intends to...
Brussels, 03 Sep 2002 The European Commission's Research DG has issued a call for tenders for support producing a European directory of local ethics committees. The European Commission intends to...
Brussels, 03 Sep 2002 The European Commission's Research DG has announced a call for tenders for a study on training programmes in ethics in research established in scientific faculties across Europe...
9/11 student fund donates $1m Families of victims of September 11's terrorist attacks have received almost $1 million (£640,000) in student loan relief and university scholarship funds from the...
Colleges strike About 70,000 lecturers and technicians and other support staff are expected to take part in a one-day strike across England and Wales on November 5. They reject a 2.3 per cent pay...
Clash of egos shakes world of physics Stephen Hawking, Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge University, was accused yesterday of receiving instant credibility because of his celebrity...
Funding crisis deepens Academics fear 50 per cent target is doomed as the Department for Education and Skills looks at cost. (The Guardian) Clash of egos shakes world of physics Stephen Hawking,...
Hefce gets new directors Three new directors have been appointed to the ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding Council for England. Liz Beaty, director of higher education development at Coventy University, will...
Eighty per cent want rise in university funding A significant percentage of voters want the government to put more money into universities to match the planned expansion in higher education places,...
Eighty per cent want rise in university funding A significant percentage of voters wants the government to put more money into universities to match the planned expansion in higher education places,...
Queen's Belfast hosts future of Europe conference Some 200 academics, senior civil servants and government officials are gathering this week at Queen's University Belfast to discuss the future of...
Help students engage in politics, says NUS leader National Union of Students president, Mandy Telford, today backed calls to engage more young people in politics. Commenting on the findings of a...
Lack of cash puts gene banks in jeopardy The world’s ability to feed itself as the human population expands is in jeopardy because the gene banks where seed and plant varieties of food crops are...
David Prosser, the journals commissioning editor at Oxford University Press, is to head a European organisation that aims to break the monopolies that traditional publishers have on research...
Archaeologists have found evidence that the Anglo-Saxons hunted and wiped out dolphins in the Humber estuary. Excavations at a site at Flixborough have uncovered 350 fragments of bone and teeth from...