Brussels, 25 April 2002 CORDIS, the European Commission's Research and Development Information Service, is hosting a new service on innovation activities in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. The...
Brussels, 25 April 2002 Yesterday Parliament's Industry Committee adopted by a large majority its second-reading report on the EU's Sixth Framework Programme for Research and Development, a five-year...
Brussels, 25 April 2002 Synchrotrons, ultra high-intensity lasers or particle accelerators: infrastructures play a fundamental role in European research. The mission of the new "European Strategy...
Brussels, 25 April 2002 In promoting the implementation of e-learning in Europe, Viviane Reding, Member of the Commission with responsibility for Education and Culture, today welcomed the launch of...
Wealthier Oxford colleges offer ‘better education’ Undergraduates at wealthy Oxford colleges such as Christ Church and St John’s have a significantly better educational experience than those at...
Brown promises cash injection for science Chancellor Gordon Brown pledged a funding boost for science in the new spending review when he last night opened the National e-Science Centre based...
The falling popularity of science at schools and universities so worries Imperial College, London, that it plans to employ postdocs who will spend half their time on research and the rest teaching...
University physics departments are to be asked to consider a new physics degree that will not require students to have mathematics A level. An Institute of Physics working group is developing several...
The House of Lords stood up for academic freedom last week when it carried amendments to the Export Control Bill by 150 votes to 108. Universities had worried that the bill would allow the government...
Scottish academics were relieved by news that Blackwell UK is to buy the 12 academic branches of James Thin, the family-run bookseller that entered administration earlier this year. Blackwell's chief...
All Welsh universities and colleges should draw up plans to commercialise knowledge, a report from the Institute of Welsh Affairs says this week. Under the report's proposals, the Welsh Assembly...
Universities are not spending enough to train their knowledge-transfer staff, says a Department for Trade and Industry report. Although many managers and practitioners have postgraduate degrees as...
Allan Buchan, a doctor jailed for 30 months for sexually assaulting male students from Stirling University during medical checks, has been struck off by the General Medical Council. A jury last year...
Derwent Information, the leading patent and scientific information provider, is opening a Glasgow office because of the city's "exceptional pool of graduates". It will recruit more than 50 science...
Oxford University did not discriminate against postgraduate student Nadeem Ahmed despite making him sit "flawed" exams that were open to abuse, a court has ruled. Mr Ahmed, 34, said his supervisor,...