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£3,000 top-up fees are just the start Universities UK made clear yesterday that the £3,000-a-year fee will be just the starting point for charges. The universities had told the government they needed...
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Floud warns MPs funding crisis will continue Funding per university student is set to fall over the next few years, despite the government's promise to pump billions of extra pounds into the higher...
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Three-way fight for Oxford chancellorship The contest to be the next chancellor of Oxford University turned into a three-way fight yesterday. Lord Neill of Bladen, QC, the former chairman of the...
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Orbiting debris may have brought down Columbia Nasa engineers examining the break-up of the space shuttle Columbia think a possible cause may have been the clutter of human debris in space. US air...
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Presidency proposal for a common political approach on the Community Patent
Brussels, 11 Feb 2003 Full text of Document 6205/03 10 February 2003 from: Presidency to: Permanent Representatives Committee (Part 1) No. prev. doc.: 5063/03 PI 1 No. Cion prop.: 10786/00 PI 49...
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French lead in nanotechnologies under threat
Brussels, 11 Feb 2003 France needs to invest more in the emerging 'revolutionary' science of nanotechnologies if it is to remain competitive in this promising field, a French parliamentary committee...
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Fischler adds his voice to calls for agreement on a Community patent
Brussels, 11 Feb 2003 Franz Fischler, Commissioner for Agriculture, Rural Development and Fisheries, has called on national governments to find a solution to the open issue of a Community patent in...
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French laboratories have significant role to play in developing ERA, says French government
Brussels, 11 Feb 2003 French laboratories have a significant role to play in helping to develop the European Research Area (ERA), said Claudie Haigneré, French Minister for Research and New...
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Euroscience proposes first pan-European scientific open forum
Brussels, 11 Feb 2003 Euroscience, a pan-European association of some 1,500 research scientists, has announced its intention to host the first Euroscience open forum (ESOF) in Stockholm from 25 to 28...
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New Cooperation and Partnership Agreement between ESA and the Russian Federation
Paris, 11 Feb 2003 Today at ESA Headquarters the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Mr Igor Sergeevich Ivanov, and the Director General of the European Space Agency, Mr Antonio...
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Space camera blazes new terahertz trails
Paris, 11 Feb 2003 New imaging technology came to life when ESA's StarTiger team captured the world's first terahertz picture of a human hand. "When we started last June we set an ambitious goal: to...
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Intellectual property marketing and licensing strategies
Brussels, 11 Feb 2003 The association of European science and technology transfer professionals (ASTP) will hold a workshop on intellectual property marketing and licensing strategies in London, UK,...
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Enhanced security is crucial for successful ICT, says Liikanen
Brussels, 11 Feb 2003 Enhanced security is a key element for the success of information and communication technologies (ICT), said Commissioner for Enterprise and Information Society Erkki Liikanen...
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New project catalogue giving an overview over ongoing research activities funded at European level in the field of antimicrobial resistance (link)
Brussels, 11 Feb 2003 antimicrobial resistance research (VERY LARGE PDF FILE: 9.166 MB) DG Research http://europa.eu.int/comm/dgs/research/i ndex_en.html
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Two new brochures in the series European Research in Action, on Nanotechnology and Socio-economic research (link)
Brussels, 11 Feb 2003 publications pages DG Research http://europa.eu.int/comm/dgs/research/i ndex_en.html