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Access all areas About 20 universities and higher education colleges that are struggling to recruit enough students could merge with further education colleges to become "access universities". (...
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Smart card backed for Scots lifelong learners A lifelong learning "smart card", backed by funding equivalent to that for a four-year degree, to be used throughout an individual's life, has been...
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Ethical issues in research: statements for minutes of Research Council, 10 December 2001
Brussels, 15 March 2002 2398th meeting of the Council (RESEARCH), held in Brussels on 10 December 2001. Draft minutes. Brussels, 4 February 2002 (22.02) (document 15133/01 LIMITE PV/CONS 80 RECH 181...
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Commission Report: Environmental technology for sustainable development
Brussels, 15 March 2002 REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION Environmental technology for sustainable development Full Text EXECUTIVE SUMMARY At the European Council in Lisbon in March 2000, the European Union...
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Commission answers questions on new instruments for FP6
Brussels, 15 March 2002 The increased responsibility for project participants proposed for the Sixth Framework programme (FP6) has so far been the main point of discussion at a series of seminars the...
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European council for research still a decade away, says leading academic
Brussels, 15 March 2002 A research council for the whole of Europe, working with the national research councils, is probably at least 10 years away, according to Professor Norbert Kroó, the secretary...
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Commission initiative to encourage intelligent energy use in Europe
Brussels, 15 March 2002 A new European Commission initiative to help improve the security of Europe's energy supply and reduce greenhouse gas emissions will be launched with a live Internet...
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Adult stem cells not as versatile as embryonic stem cells, say scientists
Brussels, 15 March 2002 Hopes that research on embryonic stem cells can be abandoned in favour of adult stem cells may be unfounded, according to new study results from scientists in the UK and the...
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Innovation and new technology in environmental protection
Brussels, 15 March 2002 An international forum and fair on environmental protection within the framework of innovation, new technology and economic cooperation will take place in Warsaw, Poland on 25...
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Research and frontier technologies, education (Excerpt from: Barcelona European Council, Presidency Conclusions)
Brussels, 15 March 2002 46. The European Council again calls on the Council and the European Parliament to adopt the 6th Research Framework Programme (FP6) and its legal instruments by June 2002. 47...
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The Barcelona Council has made the process of economic and social reform "irreversible", Presidency press conference report
Brussels, 15 March 2002 This was the message delivered by Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar at the closing press conference of the Barcelona European Council, which he held jointly with...
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Campaign targets language teaching decline A marketing campaign to reverse the crisis of modern foreign languages in universities has been launched at the British Academy with the support of seven...
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From today's UK papers
University teaching to be rated by students Students are to be given a voice for the first time in official judgements of university course teaching standards. Months of wrangling, which saw the...
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Finding fault with a salt
John Barrow of Cambridge University, lecturing the Royal Astronomical Society on cosmology last week, pointed out that vast expanses of space and time impress most people - but cut little ice with...
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"The first check-up of the Earth" - Media event at ESA/ESRIN, Frascati (Italy)
Paris, 14 March 2002 During the night of 28 February/1 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) launched its Envisat satellite on an Ariane 5 launcher from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana....