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  1. France set to import embryonic stem cells

    Brussels, 07 Oct 2004 Presenting new national measures regulating stem cell research, Research Minister François d'Aubert and Health Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy announced that France is to allow...

  2. Agenda of the Research Working Party, 11 October

    Brussels, 07 Oct 2004 Full text of Document 3590/04 1. Commission communication "Science and technology, the key to Europe's future - Guidelines for future European Union policy to support research...

  4. Conference on European Research Council (ERC)

    Brussels, 07 Oct 2004 UNESCO is hosting a conference on the European Research Council (ERC) in Paris, France, on 25 and 26 October. Organised by the Initiative for Science in Europe (ISE), the...

  5. Laurie Taylor Column

    Birmingham University calls in brand image consultants Wolf Olins after an internal marketing report finds that the university is regarded as "dull and conservative". The Times Higher, October 1...

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  6. Leader: Fees-free Scots show up the rest

    Ever since universities in England were promised top-up fees, those in other parts of the UK have been lobbying politicians for a settlement that will allow them to compete on a reasonably level...

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  7. Leader: Wide of the benchmark

    The idea, posited in this column last week, that higher education's performance indicators were too familiar to stir passions could not have been more wrong. Although universities' actual performance...

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  8. RAE is like an insidious cancer 1

    Should those individuals who have accepted chairs of research assessment exercise boards ("Big 15 to tackle RAE gamesters", October 1) not reconsider their positions? Neither they, nor those...

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  9. RAE is like an insidious cancer 2

    Is Rama Thirunamachandran of the Higher Education Funding Council for England being tongue in cheek when he says that academics should "just do the research you want to do"? Surely he must know that...

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  10. RAE is like an insidious cancer 3

    I went to my first RAE meeting of the cycle this week. I see that only one panel chair comes from a new university, and the criteria for assessment will not be published until late 2005, leaving a...

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  11. RAE is like an insidious cancer 4

    There seem to be no guidelines from the RAE to indicate what constitutes "performance research" in performance departments. Would it not be preferable for performative elements to be followed up by...

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  12. Seeing is believing

    Peep's Diary (October 1) reported "sightings" of me in Brighton last Monday night at the Labour Party conference. This report came as something of a shock since I arrived in London from South Wales...

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  13. Pensions clarity

    Your article "DFES reveals pensions plan" (September 24) is inaccurate. It is completely wrong to say that the "statutory retirement age" for teachers and lecturers is being raised to 65. There is no...

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  14. An unhealthy cliché

    I had imagined that the use of the phrase "monopoly state socialism" when debating the future of National Health Service provision was the last refuge of third-rate journalists. David Marsland's...

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  15. Short on courage

    Two aspects of your report on alleged financial problems at the Royal Institution dismayed me ("Lottery cash fears put pressure on Greenfield", October 1). First was the use of anonymous informants....

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