Agenda of the Research Working Party, 13 October 2003
Brussels, 09 Oct 2003 Full text of Document X04412/03 Suite of documents X04412/03 Researchers' careers Draft Council Resolution (DS 340/03) Doc. 12420/03 RECH 141 A.O.B. Council Register
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Finalised Text of Council Decision on the Signing of the Framework Agreement Between the European Community and the European Space Agency (link)
Brussels, 09 Oct 2003 Full text of Document 12857/03 Suite of documents 12857/03 Subject: Council Decision on the signing of the Framework Agreement between the European Community and the European...
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Commission answers calls for a European Research Council
Brussels, 09 Oct 2003 On the day that a panel of Nobel Laureates visited Commissioner for Research Philippe Busquin in Brussels to discuss the establishment of a European Research Council (ERC), the...
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EU project sparks first attempt at mapping gene switches
Brussels, 09 Oct 2003 Following the successful completion of an EU pilot project investigating links between genetics and disease, German and UK consortium partners have announced that they are to...
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Prize to reward appealing and accessible science
Brussels, 09 Oct 2003 The Altran Foundation is inviting nominations for its 2004 award, which has the theme 'discovering, understanding and enjoying science through innovation'. The award will go to...
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Commission seeks participants in hydrogen and fuel cell technology platform
Brussels, 09 Oct 2003 The European Commission is inviting expressions of interest from stakeholders that wish to participate in the European hydrogen and fuel technology platform. Expressions of...
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Symposium on innovation technology and nanotechnologies
Brussels, 09 Oct 2003 A symposium on innovation technology and nanotechnologies is being held under the auspices of the Italian Presidency in Brussels on 3 November. The event will bring together...
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First extrasolar planets, now extrasolar moons!
Paris, 09 Oct 2003 ESA is now planning a mission that can detect moons around planets outside our Solar System, those orbiting other stars. Everyone knows our Moon: lovers stare at it, wolves howl at...
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Antarctic Ozone Hole at Near Record Size This Year: US NOAA
Washington, 09 Oct 2003 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration October 7, 2003 2003 ANTARCTIC OZONE ‘HOLE' NEAR RECORD SIZE; COLD TEMPERATURES PLAY MAJOR ROLE This year's Antarctic ozone "...
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Durham kept schools' cash, centre says
A professor of education at Durham University has accused administrators of withholding £1.6 million of her centre's research income to reduce the university's financial deficit. Carol Fitz-Gibbon...
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Ex-poly chief breaks elite glass ceiling
Rick Trainor has been appointed principal of King's College London, making him the first head of a former polytechnic to take the helm of a Russell Group institution. Professor Trainor, vice-...
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In the news: Peter Mansfield
Nottingham University physicist Sir Peter Mansfield confesses that his Nobel prize for medicine, awarded this week, came as a bolt from the blue. "I am obviously very pleased and honoured, but I...
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Appointments
* Caroline MacDonald, assistant principal at the University of Paisley, has been elected chair of the Modern Universities Research Group. * Margaret Smith, microbiologist at Nottingham University,...
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Degree award faces overhaul
Traditional degree classifications could soon be scrapped following new research that shows that most universities are already giving graduates aggregate final marks as part of new transcripts of...
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Graduate premium slashed by DFES recount
A university degree may add less to a graduate's lifetime earnings than previously indicated by the government, according to its own figures. Data from the Department for Education and Skills show...