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Brussels, 08 Jan 2004 Event: Conference on Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Type of event: Press conference Date: 20-21 January Place: Brussels Contact: Julia Acevedo-Bueno Event: Women and Science in the...
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Report will call for European technology platform for 'white biotechnology'
Brussels, 08 Jan 2004 The Belgian Royal Academy of Science is to publish a report on 15 January calling on European and national authorities, together with industry, to establish a technology...
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Disappointing results for Europe in list of world's top 500 universities
Brussels, 08 Jan 2004 China's Shanghai Jiao Tong University has published a list of the world's top 500 universities, with disappointing results for Europe's institutions. The two year study took...
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Mars Express: no signal from Beagle 2 so far
Paris, 08 Jan 2004 ESA's Mars Express orbiter made its first attempt to establish contact with the Beagle 2 lander, after the two spacecraft separated on 19 December 2003. The orbiter made its first...
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Grants gamble to save bill
Ministers are set to gamble on a £500 increase in grants for students from poor homes, easing the passage of the higher education bill published this week. Maintenance grants, to be introduced later...
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In the news: Matthew Carter
Matthew Carter, a former politics tutor at York University, last week began his role as general secretary of the Labour Party. Aged only 31, he has had a meteoric rise through the ranks since joining...
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Appointments
George Fraser has been appointed director of the University of Leicester's Space Research Centre, taking over from Alan Wells, who will continue as emeritus professor on the Beagle 2 and Swift...
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Blair bets all on wooing rebels
Could the HE bill be Labour's poll tax? The THES looks at its implications and assesses its chances For the first time in history a UK prime minister has staked his premiership on higher education....
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Top-ups and bottom lines
"We either have a fair contribution from students or we deny opportunities for hundreds of thousands by cutting university numbers. Or we raise taxes for everyone, including the majority who have not...
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Upfront fees ditched as access and complaints are fine-tuned
The higher education bill is expected to address more aspects of higher education than just headline tuition fees issues. The bill will replace upfront fees with tuition fees that are repayable after...
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What are the options?
Labour MPs Peter Bradley and Alan Whitehead have submitted a paper to the government urging it to convert the postgraduation fee remission to upfront, cash-in-hand maintenance grants. They want a...
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Students fear fees could create UK 'Ivy League'
Birmingham University students have attacked plans for variable fees. Jenny Elliott , 20, a third-year medical student from Sheffield, said: "It will lead to a two-tier education system. It will...
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Beagle hunt continues
The team of scientists behind the Beagle 2 Mars probe will keep searching for the lost spacecraft well into February after the latest attempt to contact it failed on Wednesday. The first fly-by of...
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Book a place for a prize
Entries for this year's Aventis prizes for science books, which reward the best popular science writing for adults and children, should be submitted by February 6. Longlists are announced in March...
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Green grants proposed
Monitoring and recording of work to improve environmental sustainability should become a condition of grant for Scottish universities, according to a motion to be put to the Scottish Parliament by...