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In return for tuition fees, it is only fair for students to expect a high standard of teaching, access to information and other institutional resources. Teach them how to fish, but give them the...
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Customer questions 3
The charters of "old" universities define students as members of the university. They derive rights from, but also carry obligations towards, their institution. Customers do not carry specific...
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Customer questions 4
In the 1950s, at a Scottish university, I recall a foreign student who took private lessons in physics but was reluctant to pay until he had passed the exam on account of his belief that "if the...
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Laurie Taylor column
Good morning, and welcome to today's Board of Studies meeting, which will now reconstitute itself as the Board of Examiners. Any objections? One point. Why every year do we go through this farce of...
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Young stars in old galaxies - surprising discovery with the world's leading telescopes
Paris, 26 June 2002 Press Release N° 47-2002 Combining data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT), a group of European and American astronomers have made a...
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Anna Birulés: We need to boost the role of the outermost regions as a work platform in the European Area of Research and Innovation
Brussels, 26 June 2002 Minister Birulés highlights these regions' potential for R&D stemming from their geographical features and variety of natural environments Las Palmas, 24/06/2002 In...
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Commission Report: JRC Anual Report 2001
Brussels, 26 June 2002 REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION JRC ANNUAL REPORT 2001 Full text Brussels, 26.6.2002 COM(2002) 306 final
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CEN/ISSS Cluster for Electronic Commerce: Conference on on linking RTD and standardization
Brussels, 26 June 2002 Cluster for Electronic Commerce C-ECOM Plenary Conference Brussels, 14 June 2002 Conference Programme (presentations are available for download on the linked page) 70...
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Finnish innovation cluster analyses its success
Brussels, 26 June 2002 The region of northern Europe with the largest concentration of technology-related businesses, technical research, science and education - the Helsinki region of Finland - has...
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Commissioners to attend metrology network launch
Brussels, 26 June 2002 Commissioners Busquin (research) and Wallström (environment) will both be attending the kick-off meeting of a new network project, METROPOLIS focusing on better monitoring the...
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Survey to benchmark e-learning in Europe and beyond
Brussels, 26 June 2002 A new survey of e-learning in Europe and beyond is aiming to paint an independent and accurate picture of the take-up of e-learning in companies, public organisations, training...
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Update: 12:00
Brown promises money to commercialise research Chancellor Gordon Brown has promised more money for the commercialisation of university research. In his Mansion House speech in the City last...
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Today's papers
Degrees boost earning power A university degree can boost earning power by up to £15,000 a year, figures from the Careers Services Unit reveal. ( Guardian, Independent ) Degree of uncertainty The...
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Envisat breaks the terabyte barrier
Paris, 25 June 2002 Only three months after the launch of ESA’s Envisat spacecraft, the largest and most capable satellite ever built to monitor the Earth’s environment, the Envisat system recently...
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Coming to a cinema near you - digital fidelity, courtesy of ESA
Paris, 25 June 2002 We've got digital television. Next comes digital cinema. Thanks to ESA, cinema-goers in five European countries will be able to get an early taste of the new technology later this...