Brussels, 10 October 2002 Thank you Madam Vice President, and thank you again, (Ladies and) gentlemen for your attention. Madam de Palacio has presented to you our concerns in the European Union over...
Brussels, 15 February 2002 On Monday, 18 February 2002 European Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin will present his view on how best the European research efforts against landmines should be...
The research councils should be "capable of operating as a 'virtual single council'" whose boundaries are invisible to the people they work with. This is the message of the quinquennial review of the...
The research assessment exercise could be scrapped because it is failing to provide "bang for bucks". The Department for Trade and Industry, which is looking at the RAE under its plans to introduce a...
Ireland's seven universities have been told that they need to re-position themselves as a strong system and not just a collection of separate institutions. They have also been warned that the...
Activists at the Association of University Teachers have called for the resignation of union general secretary David Triesman after his decision to suspend industrial action. The extent of their fury...
Brussels, 21 Nov 2002 Elisa Maria DAMI??O (PES, P) Report on the Commission communication on Life sciences and biotechnology - A Strategy for Europe ( COM(2002) - C5-0260/2002 - 2002/2123(COS)) Doc...
The Age of Consent
The Molecular World Series
Brussels, 4 April 2003 A roundtable meeting to examine the latest research results on the co-existence of GM and non-GM crops will be hosted by the European Commission on Thursday 24 April. A wide...
Up to half the former polytechnics may be effectively stripped of their research role under proposals in the government's strategy document due next month. Education secretary Charles Clarke is...
When Howard Davies, chairman of the FSA, decided to take up the post of director of the LSE, the City was 'stunned' but, then again, this regular bloke often has that effect, says Terry Philpot...
Conflicting priorities within Whitehall in the run-up to the government's strategic paper on higher education are threatening to produce a logjam in academic salaries that could hamper ministers'...
What must the government address in its upcoming strategy paper? Alan Thomson opens a series on the vital issues by asking whether ministers' aims to get half the population into HE are achievable or...
Brussels, 29 Oct 2002 Reports on the EU candidate countries' progress on the road to accession show that they are ready to participate in the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) on an equal footing with...