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Cambridge and Oxford rise in world academic rankings Cambridge and Oxford are now the third and fourth best universities in the world respectively, according to international rankings published today...
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Ginseng can help keep you clear of colds, say scientists People who take ginseng suffer substantially fewer colds, research published yesterday showed. Only one in 10 of those given daily doses of...
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Jacques Barrot appoints Karel Van Miert as facilitator for Galileo
Brussels, 25 October 2005 Jacques Barrot, Vice President of the European Commission in charge of Transport, has appointed Karel Van Miert, former European Commissioner, to take up the role of...
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Commission report Annual Report on research and technological development activities of the Union in 2004 (link)
Brussels, 25 Oct 2005 REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION Annual Report on research and technological development activities of the European Union in 2004 {SEC(2005) 1326} Full Text [...] 2. COMMUNITY...
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Impact assessment and outline of steps for implementation of proposal for investing for growth and employment: Commission staff working documents (links)
Brussels, 25 October 2005 Full text of Document 13606/05 Addendum 02 Suite of documents 13606/05 Subject: Commission Staff Working Document Annex to the Communication from the Commission to the...
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Commission decision on protection measures against suspicion of avian influenza in Croatia (OJ link)
Brussels, 25 October 2005 Commission Decision of 24 October 2005 concerning certain protection measures in relation to a suspicion of highly pathogenic avian influenza in Croatia (notified under...
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University of Cornell given access to confidential data in EU for scientific purposes (OJ link)
Brussels, 25 October 2005 Commission Decision of 20 October 2005 amending Decision 2004/452/EC concerning the list of bodies whose researchers may access confidential data for scientific purposes (...
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Commission to negotiate agreements for 2006-13 with USA and Canada on cooperation in field of higher education: Agriculture Council (other business), 24-25 October
Brussels, 25 October 2005 The Council authorised the Commission to negotiate two agreements renewing cooperation programmes with the USA in higher education and vocational training and with Canada in...
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EU project to develop a system that correlates genetic patterns with environmental data
Brussels, 25 Oct 2005 The recently launched METAFUNCTIONS project is intended to develop a data-mining system that correlates genetic patterns in genomes and metagenomes with contextual environmental...
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Specific support actions - aeronautics and space; sustainable surface transport
Brussels, 25 Oct 2005 The European Commission has published new call for proposal texts for specific support actions under the 'Aeronautics and Space' and 'Sustainable Surface Transport' thematic...
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Scientific advice for UK ministers to be more 'practical' and 'sophisticated'
Brussels, 21 October 2005 The UK's Chief Scientific Advisor has set out new guidelines on the advice provided to ministers, highlighting horizon scanning and greater openness as priorities....
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UK government consultation on draft Magnox decision document (link)
London, 25 October 2005 Consult ation document (673 KB) Letter to consultees This draft Magnox decision document sets out the proposed decisions of the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and...
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Today's news
Lecturers target MPs over terror bill The Association of University Teachers is today lobbying MPs as the terror bill gets its second reading in the House of Commons, warning that the legislation...