Cancer research centre to be built in Belfast
Brussels, 15 Oct 2004 The UK is providing 30 million euro to build a new centre for cancer research and cell biology at Queen's University in Belfast, making Northern Ireland one of Europe's leaders...
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Conference on condensed matter nuclear science
Brussels, 15 Oct 2004 The 11th international conference on Condensed Matter Nuclear Science will be held in Marseilles, France, from 31 October until 5 November. Researchers from around the world...
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Position of COST in the Future EU Policy for Research Support - Statement from the CSO President (link)
Brussels, 15 Oct 2004 Full text of Document 311/04 Suite of documents 311/04 Subject: Position of COST in the future EU policy for research support - statement from the CSO President Delegations will...
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Agenda of the Scientific and Technical Research Committee (Crest), 21-22 October
Brussels, 15 Oct 2004 Full text of Document 3738/04 Chairpersons: Mr Achilleas MITSOS, Mr Richard ESCRITT 1. Adoption of the Draft Agenda 2. Approval of the Draft Summary Conclusions of the 296th...
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Procedure for Appointing Members of the JAF (Legal, Administrative and Financial) Group of COST -- European Co-operation in Science and Technology (link)
Brussels, 15 Oct 2004 Full text of Document 309/04 Suite of documents 309/04 6 October 2004 NOTE To: Delegations From COST Secretariat Subject: Procedure for appointing members of JAF1 Delegations...
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JAF Recommendations on: Assessment of COST-ESF MoU and of the COST Office (link)
Brussels, 15 Oct 2004 Full text of Document 310/04 Suite of documents 310/04 Delegations will find attached a proposal prepared by the JAF Rapporteur for Task 7 on the above subject, to be examined...
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Agenda of the Research Working Party and Joint Research/Atomic Questions Working Party, 21 October
Brussels, 15 Oct 2004 Full text of Document 3740/04 1. S&T policy in the Netherlands - Presentation 2. Five-year assessment of the Joint Research Centre - Presentation and exchange of views 3...
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Agenda of the Research Working Party, 18 October
Brussels, 15 Oct 2004 Full text of Document 3703/04 1. Commission communication "Science and technology, the key to Europe's future - Guidelines for future European Union policy to support research...
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Test minds, but tend them too
Today's students are suffering a mental health crisis. Richard Kadison demands more understanding and action from the universities The number of college students with serious mental health problems...
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Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
Deadline: 15/11/2004
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Academic pay rises lag behind teachers'
Academic salaries have grown only half as fast as the public-sector average over the past ten years, a new survey has revealed. The figures, compiled by the Association of University Teachers, show...
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Middlesex abolishes exams for first-years
Middlesex University has abandoned exams for first-year degree students in what critics claim is an unprecedented move to make it easier for students to pass. A memo leaked to The Times Higher...
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'I was able to point out that we are tenth cousins, George Bush and I'
Oceanographer Charles Keeling this week raised the alarm about a worrying rise in carbon dioxide levels Charles Keeling is obsessed by carbon dioxide. He has been measuring it conscientiously for 46...
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On the move...
The University of East Anglia has appointed: Aedin Cassidy , former head of molecular nutrition at Unilever, to a chair in diet and health; Vincent Moulton , formerly at Uppsala University, professor...
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Deech warns of false claims
The student complaints ombudsman has warned universities against making promises that they cannot keep in their prospectuses. The potential legal pitfalls of making overblown claims was further...