UK film has talent but not backing
British universities have helped fuel the rapid growth of the country's creative industries, but this drive has not been matched by policy-makers, particularly those responsible for film policy,...
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Teaching: on the front line
What is your experience of teaching? Pat Leon asks teachers how they manage. Name: David Webb Age: 41 Job: Reader in electronic engineering and member of the photonics research group at Aston...
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Conference on nanotechnologies: opportunities and implications
Brussels, 18 Oct 2002 A conference on the theme of nanotechnologies will be held in Milan, Italy on 25 November. The event will look at initiatives in the field of nanotechnology within the EU and...
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Mr Erkki Liikanen: "The way Forward for Biotech and Sustainable Development in the EU", World Life Sciences Forum, Biovision, Lyon, April 10, 2003
Lyon, April 10, 2003 BioSciences & Tomorrow's Industrial Sustainability Ensuring sustainable development is one of the main challenges of the modern era. Three weeks ago, at the Spring...
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Why I... think it is vital that academics put up a fight against casualisation
One of the main issues facing young academics is the increasing casualisation of the higher education workforce. But the emphasis that current education policy places on creating a "flexible...
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Skills flagship fails to inspire
The government's skills strategy came under fire this week as figures revealed that success rates among students on modern apprenticeship programmes have in some cases fallen to as low as 16 per cent...
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Europe to the conquest of comets: Commissioner Busquin welcomes Rosetta launch
Brussels, 2 March 2004 Today the European Space Agency's "Rosetta" comet-intercept spacecraft was launched in Kourou, French Guyana. European Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin welcomed the lift-...
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Europe to the conquest of comets: Commissioner Busquin welcomes Rosetta launch
Brussels, 2 March 2004 Today the European Space Agency's "Rosetta" comet-intercept spacecraft was launched in Kourou, French Guyana. European Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin welcomed the lift-...
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Changing courses continues to disrupt the natural ebb and flow
Dams and Development - Managing Water Resources
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Cancer risk and the environment: New EU network for environmental cancer research
Brussels, 13 May 2005 WHAT? Launch event for the new European research Network of Excellence on environmental cancer (ECNIS) and workshop on EU-funded research on environmental cancer risks and...
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White Paper on European Space Policy - examples of how space can help the EU meet its objectives
Brussels, 11th November 2003 See also IP/03/82 dated 21/1/03 and MEMO/03/138 dated 24/6/03 A European Space Policy in an enlarged Union will offer valuable tools that can contribute to the...
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White Paper on European Space Policy - examples of how space can help the EU meet its objectives
Brussels, 11th November 2003 See also IP/03/82 dated 21/1/03 and MEMO/03/138 dated 24/6/03 A European Space Policy in an enlarged Union will offer valuable tools that can contribute to the...
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UK's competitive edge relies on academia
Increasing government support for higher education and sustaining spending on the science base are crucial to revamping the UK's failing competitive edge, according to research that will influence...
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New projects may lose out on cash
Chancellor Gordon Brown this week set out the largest sustained increase in science spending for a generation, yet research leaders warned there would be very little money left over for new research...
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It's falling apart at the seams
Britain has lost its sense of identity, argues Keith Hart, who predicts that this country is on its last legs. Western values have officially remained more or less the same since the liberal...