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Pension schemes brought into line
New TPS entrants will retire at 65 in post-92 institutions. Claire Sanders reports. The pension age for academics starting their careers in new universities is now 65, bringing them into line with...
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Who got that cash?
Success in drawing together a multidisciplinary research team has been crucial in securing nearly £5 million to expand pioneering research in nanoscience, says David Birch , head of Strathclyde...
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Big wig sought and top talent courted in law jobs bonanza
Law departments are experiencing something of a boom if this week's job advertisements in The Times Higher are anything to go by. Five universities are advertising a range of law posts and the Bar...
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Agreement on new €3.6 billion “competitiveness and innovation programme”
Brussels, 1 June 2006 Today, the European Parliament has adopted the first “Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme” . Between 2007 and 2013, some 350,000 small and...
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CIP – Innovation and entrepreneurship, ICT and intelligent energy
Brussels, 1 June 2006 CIP is a programme for SMEs bringing together several existing EU activities that support competitiveness and innovation The new CIP programme has a budget of € 3.621...
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Competitiveness and Innovation Programme: agreement in first reading expected
Brussels, 01 Jun 2006 Enhancing competitiveness and innovation to increase Europe's productivity, innovation capacity and sustainable growth â€" that is the main aim of the CIP, a...
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UNICE views on the proposed rules for participation under FP7
Brussels, 01 Jun 2006 Full text UNICE Union of Industrial and Employers' Confederations of Europe Union des Confédérations de l'Industrie et des Employeurs d'Europe
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EU biotech industry victim of 'chronic underfunding', says EuropaBio
Brussels, 01 Jun 2006 The EU's biotechnology industry is the victim of underfunding, causing it to lag significantly behind the US, according to a report commissioned by EuropaBio, the European...
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Not quite like twinned cities - UK's Royal Society launches pairing scheme for MEPs and scientists
Brussels, 01 Jun 2006 The UK's Royal Society has launched a new scheme pairing MEPs and scientists, to bridge the gap between politics and research. At the launch in Brussels on 31 May, former...
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Belgium to build first eco-friendly Antarctic research station
Brussels, 01 Jun 2006 The International Polar Foundation (IPF) unveiled its final plans for the first polar station to be powered solely by renewable sources of energy at a site in the Antarctic on...
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Today's news
Jobs to be axed as pay row deepens University staff will lose their jobs in order to fund an inflation-busting pay rise for lecturers, it was announced last night. Glasgow Caledonian University...
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Laurie Taylor Column
Roger, are you there? Do pick up the phone, darling. You know how I hate these horrible machines. Roger? Yes, mother, I'm here. I'm here. But why on earth are you ringing? It's still almost seven...
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Leader: UCU benefits to outlast dispute
The continuing uncertainties and bitterness surrounding the pay dispute should not prevent higher education as a whole from welcoming this week's establishment of the University and College Union....
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Leader: Reading the DfES runes
The decision on how to replace Sir Alan Wilson as the Department for Education and Skills' most senior official responsible for higher education will have the Kremlin watchers out in force. Creating...