Brussels, 16 Jun 2006 What is Pre-Commercial Procurement of Innovation? Pre-commercial procurement focuses on products and services which are not yet available on the market, for which a certain...
It is more than 15 years since the collapse of the Soviet empire, but the need to understand developments in Central and Eastern Europe remains. The Centre for East European Language Based Area...
The once exalted status of castrati helped Richard Wassersug accept the changes caused by his cancer treatment My daughter and I were talking about outing oneself - the act of disclosing one's inner...
A senior academic at Cambridge University has claimed staff were "bullied, demeaned and lied to" during a review of their department, writes Rebecca Attwood. Members of the faculty of Oriental...
Brussels, 24 October 2006 Full text of Document 14307/06 Suite of documents 14307/06 Brussels, 23 October NOTE from Commission to Council Subject: Written Information from the Commission on Avian...
British universities must not treat Asian students as "cash cows", a think-tank warned this week, saying that the good reputation of UK higher education is at stake. In a report on the challenges...
Brussels, 10 May 2006 A new report warns that Europe is in danger of 'missing the boat' on commercial returns of nanotechnology, as the number of patent applications remain way below those from the...
British universities have long taken a simple view of the Bologna Agreement. For once, they think, continental Europe has realised the superiority of the British approach and has changed its ways to...
Brussels, 04 Oct 2006 The paper industry has set a new recycling target of 66 per cent, to be reached by 2010. The signatories will award priority to waste prevention, improving the recyclability of...
The relationship between politics and religion will take centre stage at this year's Anglo-American Conference of Historians, University of London, July 5 to 7 The global community of evangelical...
The Open University is seeking to become a global online university by building new partnerships at home and abroad. In a major document called OU Futures , the university, which already has 40,000...
Galina Yemelianova , a Russian specialist in Arabic and Islamic studies at Birmingham University, may speak six languages but she cannot persuade her children to follow her example. "I try to get...
Oxford targets bright young things of eastern Europe Oxford University hopes to entice eastern Europe's brightest students with scholarships worth ?25,000 a year from October. The university has...
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The flu pandemic of 1918-19 claimed at least 50 million lives, yet only recently has its devastation and aftermath been studied. Guy Beiner examines a strange case of worldwide amnesia In 1918 and...