Baby gloom on horizon
There may be more female graduates than in the past, but they are having fewer or no children. The traditional middle-class recruiting ground for students is shrinking, so, asks Alison Wolf, do...
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Give those boys a sporting chance
In parts of Britain, white males have more chance of going to prison than of entering higher education. Harriet Swain looks at some local responses A 15-year-old boy stands in a wood. It's dark and...
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Late switch in tactics ends in own goal
In the latest of his dispatches from the World Cup in Germany, Geoff Pearson laments the strong-arm methods adopted by police in Cologne England may not have come home with the World Cup, but British...
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Blood, lore and legend
Dan Brown's bestseller is challenging medievalists' thinking, reports Huw Richards More than 60 million sales of the book worldwide, well over $200 million (£110 million) taken at the box office the...
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Minaret among the dreaming spires
Oxford's Islamic centre celebrates the faith's traditions - and blends in with the city domes, says Mandy Garner, a year on from the London bombings For an institution that started life in a wooden...
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Cross-border shipments of radioactive waste
Brussels, 05 Jul 2006 Parliament adopted a report with a few non-binding amendments on a draft directive laying down a Community system for monitoring crossborder shipments of radioactive waste and...
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EP Plenary Vote: Shipments of radioactive waste and nuclear spent fuel - Report adopted
05 Jul 2006 Proposal for a Council directive on the supervision and control of shipments of radioactive waste and nuclear spent fuel ( A6-0174/2006 ) Rapporteur: Esko Seppänen (EUL/NGL, FI)...
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EP Plenary Vote: Investing for growth and employment - Report adopted (link to resolution adopted)
05 Jul 2006 Implementing the Community Lisbon Programme: more research and innovation investing for growth and employment: A common approach ( A6-0204/2006 ) Rapporteur: Pilar del Castillo Vera (EPP-...
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DNA 'immortality' caught on video
Brussels, 05 Jul 2006 EuroStemCell researchers at the Pasteur Institute in Paris used sophisticated techniques, including video imaging, to record how stem cells could avoid mutations during cell...
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Commissioner Janez Potocnik: European Technology Platforms: Developing Lead Markets - Seminar of Industrial Leaders of European Technology Platforms and Associated Representatives of National Authorit
Brussels, 5 July 2006 Seminar of Industrial Leaders of European Technology Platforms and Associated Representatives of National Authorities Brussels, 5 July 2006 Ladies and Gentlemen, It is a...
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Today's news
John Moores lecturers to protest over schools closures Lecturers at Liverpool John Moores University will today protest against plans to close the institution's language and business information...
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Research and development call
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Research Grants
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Latest research news
Geordie stroke victim left sounding like Jamaican Researchers are hoping that a woman who woke up after a stroke to find her Geordie accent sounding like Jamaican patois could shed some light on “...
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Proposed Council Decision on Modifying the Agreement on Research and Development Activities in the Domain of Intelligent Manufacturing Systems Australia, Canada, the EFTA Countries of Norway and Switz
Brussels, 04 Jul 2006 Full text of Document 11163/06 Suite of documents 11163/06 Subject: Proposal for a Council Decision authorizing the conclusion of the agreement to renew and modify the agreement...