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  1. In brief 1

    Is it relevant that the new chief executive of the Economic and Social Research Council is "a big man" and, as such, "a strong contrast, physically and personally, with his predecessor"? (Features...

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  2. In brief 2

    Leicester University's "Campus of the Future" (News, THES , September ) will incorporate "communal sectors... providing meeting points for academics and students from different subject areas". I seem...

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  3. In brief 3

    I am researching the life of Professor Ernest Weekley (1865-1954) and would like to talk to descendants of people who were taught by him at Nottingham University College. I am particularly keen to...

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  4. Rights and wrongs 1

    Sir Alec Broers ("Cambridge outrage ill-founded", THES , September 13) fails to address the key issue: where does the ethical and legal right in intellectual property lie? No one (and no group) can...

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  5. Rights and wrongs 2

    Ross Anderson has raised alarm that is without foundation (Letters, THES , September 20). He claims that the proposal to bring intellectual property policy in Cambridge in line with other...

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  6. Laurie Taylor column

    God dammit. Maureen! MAUREEN! Do you know what the devil has happened to my first-year welcoming speech? What might it be filed under? Maureen. I've told you before. Don't sound so damned imperious....

    #Laurie

  7. Leader: Three into two does not go for degree courses

    US universities swear by them, and they have been making apparently unstoppable progress in the UK for more than a decade. So why are some universities abandoning semesters to return to a three-term...

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  8. Leader: Party talk offers little hope to universities

    Universities worried by the gloomy signals over their budgets for the next three years will hardly have been reassured by events in Blackpool this week. The Labour Party conference theme of "schools...

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  9. Compromise reached on embryonic stem cell research

    Brussels, 02 Oct 2002 Carlos WESTENDORP Y CABEZA (PES, E), chairman of the Industry Committee, was pleased to announce on Tuesday morning that the Commission, Council and Parliament had reached a...

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  10. Integral - tracking extreme radiation across the Universe

    Paris, 02 Oct 2002 Integral is the International Gamma Ray Astrophysics Laboratory of the European Space Agency. It is a cooperative mission with Russia and is scheduled for launch on 17 October 2002...

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  11. ESA is helping to make road transport more effective

    Paris, 02 Oct 2002 Space is the usual business of a space agency, so it may come as a surprise that the European Space Agency (ESA) is giving some attention to road transport. The agency is designing...

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  14. UK SMEs slow to embrace broadband

    Brussels, 02 Oct 2002 A study has found that less than 10 per cent of the 1.2 million small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in the UK have taken up broadband. According to the survey, by telecoms...

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  15. 'European learning resources space' project launch

    Brussels, 02 Oct 2002 The European Treasury Browser (ETB) is a new project funded under the Information Society Technologies (IST) programme of the Commission's Fifth Framework Programme. The project...

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