A centre dedicated to the study of Ireland's belief systems, identities and traditions is an important step in finding some common ground among the region's estranged populations, argues Robert Welch...
At Ulster University, students tread softly to avoid offending those with deep-held convictions, writes Elisabeth Lillie. Political events confirm the durability of the divisions in Northern Irish...
I was recently reading the essays of the great Argentinian Jorges Luis Borges, and I came across a remarkable piece titled The Concept of an Academy and the Celts , which outlined the curious...
Football is waking up to the fact that players need to pursue goals off as well as on the pitch. Matthew Baker reports. The path to higher education is not one that has been traditionally trodden by...
Print on demand is set to revolutionise the way scholarly books are produced. Mandy Garner finds out how the OUP is preparing for the future Niko Pfund speaks with the zeal of a convert. "Print on...
Next week, Oxford University will host the first in a series of Oxford Amnesty International lectures - sponsored by The THES - on sex rights and the difficulties of promoting such issues in non-...
Brussels, 30 January 2002 Proposal for a Decision of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the Sixth Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological...
Brussels, 30 January 2002 The European Commission has issued prior information on a call for tender for an evaluation of the approaches to integrate sustainability into Community policy. The...
Brussels, 30 January 2002 The Spanish Presidency of the EU is organising the first ever joint meeting of EU Ministers for Industry and Research in an informal seminar to be held in S’Agaró (Girona)...
Brussels, 30 January 2002 Invitation to a Press Conference Brussels - European Parliament, 31 January 2002, 11.00 Every citizen dreams of spending less time in traffic jams, away from polluted air,...
Brussels, 30 January 2002 Europabio, the European association for bioindustries, has welcomed the announcement of a new European Commission biotechnology policy which aims to help make Europe the...
Brussels, 30 January 2002 Researchers at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) have produced a detailed diagram of a protein linked to leukaemia which gives researchers a head start in...
Brussels, 30 January 2002 The third European breast cancer conference, with more than 3,000 scientists, clinicians and patient representatives will take place in Barcelona, Spain on 19 to 23 March....
Italian conference to examine role of Internet in local government Brussels, 30 January 2002 The EISCO 2002 conference on 'Internet portals and the re-engineering of local and regional governments in...
Universities urged to talent-spot poor Universities must do more to attract students from poor backgrounds, higher education minister Margaret Hodge said today. Speaking at the University of London...