Price of failure more than £10bn, v-cs warn
Universities are facing a 10 billion financial black hole that is sure to grow if the top-up fee legislation falls, vice-chancellors warned this week. Vice-chancellors' lobby Universities UK will ask...
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Cambridge says it needs fees to pay for bursaries
A new £8 million bursary scheme will underline Cambridge's commitment to poor students, but the university needs top-up fees to be able to afford it, vice-chancellor Alison Richard has said....
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NUS fears over access watchdog
The Office for Fair Access will fail to ensure justice for students from less well-off backgrounds, the National Union of Students said this week. Responding to the consultation by the Admissions to...
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Go private, principal tells elite
England's top universities should leave the state sector and become private institutions if the government really wants them to compete with the best in America, according to a Scottish principal....
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Raise levy on high earners, union says
Raising income-tax levels for the highest earners is a better way to solve higher education's funding crisis than charging fees, according to an "alternative" white paper from the Cambridge...
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Blunkett leads top-up fees revolt Tony Blair was hit by a cabinet revolt against university top-up fees yesterday. Home secretary David Blunkett led ministers demanding that the prime minister find...
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Commissioner David Byrne: "Irrational Fears or Legitimate Concerns" - Risk Perception in Perspective, Risk Perception: Science, Public Debate and Policy Making Conference Brussels, 4 December 2003
Brussels, 4 December 2003 Introduction I am delighted to welcome you all to this conference on risk perception, science, public debate and policy making. We have assembled an impressive line up of...
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Galileo (Extract from: Préparation du Conseil Transports du 5 décembre 2003)
Bruxelles, le 4 décembre 2003 La Commission informera les Ministres sur le déroulement du programme Galileo, à savoir: les négociations avec les Etats-Unis (des progrès ont été très récemment...
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Council washes its hands of embryonic stem cell research debate
Brussels, 04 Dec 2003 A special meeting of the Competitiveness Council on 3 December failed to deliver a political agreement on EU funding for human embryonic stem cell research. It is now highly...
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Rising sun for EU Research: Commissioner Busquin to visit Japan
Brussels, 4 December 2003 European Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin will visit Japan from December 5-9 to participate in the G8 Carnegie Group conference, the meeting of G8 research ministers,...
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Network of pollution projects to influence European air quality policies
Brussels, 04 Dec 2003 A Eureka project which brought together researchers from 25 countries, as well as the Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC), has provided new information on the causes and...
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GM farmers should be liable for contamination of conventional crops, say MEPs
Brussels, 04 Dec 2003 The Agriculture Committee of the European Parliament has adopted an own initiative report calling on the Commission to make farmers of genetically modified (GM) crops liable for...
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Science and society - some reflections
Brussels, 04 Dec 2003 An AllChemE seminar, entitled 'science and society - some reflections', will take place in the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, on 16 December. The guest speaker will...
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International symposium on medical research funding
Brussels, 04 Dec 2003 An international symposium on medical research funding, entitled 'vision for the 21st century' will take place in Stockholm, Sweden, on 14 January. The event will provide...
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Hungary and the Czech Republic sign ECS agreements with ESA
Paris, 04 Dec 2003 Hungary and the Czech Republic recently signed European Cooperating State agreements with ESA. This means that both countries will be able to participate in nearly all ESA...