Why I... am a victim of 'quality suffering'
On the way to work the other week I was worrying about who would be on the picket line and what abuse I would be subjected to for my determination to work during the strike. For nothing. Not a single...
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How boom turned to gloom
New blood sought as a generation prepares to retire. Chris Johnston reports Mass recruitment of a new generation of social scientists is needed to replace academics who started their careers in the...
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Science robbed of £2bn
Universities subsidise research commissioned by outside bodies to the tune of £2 billion a year, it was revealed this week. The full extent of the funding gap emerged from an official review that did...
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Access to space today and tomorrow: what does Europe need?
Paris, 16 May 2003 On May the Ministers responsible for space activities in the Member States of the European Space Agency and Canada will meet in Paris, at ESA's Head Office. They meet to take...
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Global Navigation Satellite System - Galileo (Extract from: Provisional Version, Transport Council, 10 December and Presidency press conference)
Brussels, 10 Dec 2004 Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council: Moving to the deployment and operational phase of the European satellite radionavigation programme...
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Grease the links or the national asset will rust
University-business collaboration must be geared up before the UK falls farther behind, says Richard Lambert As an outsider looking into the UK's university system, I have had a fair number of...
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Grease the links or the national asset will rust
University-business collaboration must be geared up before the UK falls farther behind, says Richard Lambert As an outsider looking into the UK's university system, I have had a fair number of...
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Target woman
Tuberculosis is no long-gone scourge but a deadly modern-day disease that is increasingly resistant to treatment. Anna Fazackerley meets a woman seeking new ways to attack the bacterium that causes...
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FP5 network helps Commission draw up environmental noise directive
Brussels, 7 February 2002 A network created under the Growth programme of the Fifth Framework programme for research (FP5) is drawing up a strategy plan for future noise research that will support...
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Commission to launch high level group on hydrogen and fuel cell technologies
Brussels, 11 Sep 2002 EU Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin has announced the forthcoming launch of a high level group on hydrogen and fuel cell technologies. Hydrogen could be a source of clean...
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Investment In Research In Europe  Council Resolution (Extract from the Provisional Minutes of the Competitiveness Council of 22 Sep.)
Brussels, 22 Sep 2003 "Council resolution on investing in research for European Growth and Competitiveness the Council, Recalling the conclusions of the Lisbon 2000, Barcelona 2002 and Brussels 2003...
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Changing courses continues to disrupt the natural ebb and flow
Dams and Development - Managing Water Resources
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Principal rules out merger
The recent announcement that Joan Stringer, principal of Queen Margaret University College, was to become principal of Napier University worried many of the staff. More than a decade ago, many people...
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Prior information on studies relating to foresight, statistics and S&T indicators
Brussels, 09 Apr 2003 The European Commission has published a prior information notice regarding a call for tenders for studies, data and services within the framework of the 'integrating and...
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Research: Commission publishes study on potential conflict between patenting and publishing of scientific results
Brussels, 28 February 2002 The European Commission has published a survey on the effects of the dilemma that scientists said they faced when faced by scientists when they want to publish their...