Equity can trip us up
Initiatives to give students a career boost may be failing those most in need, argues John Brennan If you were born on the wrong side of the tracks and you haven't become a professional footballer or...
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'We've gone beyond bottom pinching... but this is worse'
Institutionalised sexism discourages many women from a career in science. What's being done about it? asks Helen Hague. Baroness Greenfield broke the pre-publication purdah surrounding her keenly...
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Commission Pushes for GMO Green Light
Washington, 29 Jan 2004 The European Commission today sent a strong signal to European Union member states and trading partners that it is in favor of moving ahead with authorizations of genetically...
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Commission Pushes for GMO Green Light
Washington, 29 Jan 2004 The European Commission today sent a strong signal to European Union member states and trading partners that it is in favor of moving ahead with authorizations of genetically...
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Reaching for stars
The THES examines how countries are turning brain drain into brain gain. Awards that top up salaries are bringing talent back to the UK. Julia Hinde reports. When Roger Pedersen, a prominent American...
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Biotechnology sector needs proper application of EU patent law, says Commission report
Brussels, 10 th October 2002 All Member States must fully and swiftly implement the 1998 Directive on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions (Directive 98/44 ,see MEMO/00/39 ) or Europe...
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Liftoff for Aurora: Europe's first steps to Mars, the Moon and beyond
Paris, 11 Oct 2002 Step by step, the European Space Agency's new Aurora space exploration programme is beginning to take shape. This ambitious programme, started by ESA in January 2002, sets out a...
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Clouded view as two wars collide
A Great Civil War
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Let universities throw off shackles of the state
Labour's review of higher education must create the conditions for adequate funding, says Richard Brown Higher education is vital for the future wealth and social development of the UK. Yet...
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Biotechnology sector needs proper application of EU patent law, says Commission report
Brussels, 10 th October 2002 All Member States must fully and swiftly implement the 1998 Directive on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions (Directive 98/44 ,see MEMO/00/39 ) or Europe...
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The Day After Tomorrow - Background Information on Climate Scenarios
Copenhagen, May 2004 'The Day After Tomorrow,' the northern hemisphere is plunged into an ice age as global climate change causes the Gulf Stream in the North Atlantic to 'switch off.' Pure fiction?...
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Scrolla set to boost ICT study
Three universities have joined together to set up the Scottish Centre for Research into On-Line Learning (Scrolla), whose aims include strengthening links between online teaching researchers and the...
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UK news in brief
Belfast students are target of blast bomb There has been outrage in Belfast over the attempted murder of students in a house adjoining a nationalist area in the south of the city. A blast bomb...
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Morris opens ivory towers to hit target
Education secretary Estelle Morris announced this week that higher education was to be redefined, possibly to include some further education, as a platform on which the government would base its...
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Philippe Busquin: La politique de l'Europe en matière d'OGM, Conférence organisée par les Amis de l'Europe "Quand l'Europe aura-t-elle une politique claire et fiable en matière d'OGM?" Bruxelles, 5 ma
Bruxelles, 5 mai 2003 La réponse courte au titre de ce débat est que l'Europe a déjà une politique claire et fiable: des copies du document de notre stratégie 2002 pour les technologies et les...