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Ministers may be flexible on top-up fees The Department for Education and Skills yesterday sought to play down suggestions that it was poised to make big concessions to win over opponents of its plan...
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Report assesses ERA potential in social and human sciences
Brussels, 15 May 2003 European Research Area (ERA) policy makers should avoid applying a 'one size fit' approach to building bridges between national and European research programmes, especially in...
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Workshop on a major disease affecting 8 million pigs each year in Europe
Brussels, 15 May 2003 PMWS is now recognised as a global epidemic with overall losses in EU countries estimated at between €562 million and €900 million per year. A workshop held in Brussels on 15...
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Crisis in the European Space Industry
Brussels, 15 May 2003 Motions for resolutions on the ministerial meeting of the European Space Agency of May 2003 Doc.: B5-0246/2003, B5-0250/2003, B5-0251/2003, B5-0259/2003, B5-0260/2003 Debate: 14...
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New EU project to create alternative splicing database
Brussels, 15 May 2003 Seven research teams from four EU Member States and Israel are teaming up for an alternative splicing database project, funded under the Quality of Life programme of the Fifth...
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Stakeholders gather to discuss 'visions of virtual reality and interactive 3D' in FP6
Brussels, 15 May 2003 A conference on 'visions of virtual reality and interactive 3D in European funded projects' will take place on 24 and 25 June in Luxembourg. The conference is being organised in...
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World energy, technology and climate policy outlook report comes in for criticism from coal industry
Brussels, 15 May 2003 Assocarboni, an international association representing companies in the coal industry, has called into question the energy scenario depicted in the recently published Commission...
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OMARC conference, Paris
Brussels, 15 May 2003 A conference on ocean margin research will take place from 15 to 17 September in Paris, France. The main aim of the conference is to promote dialogue between academia, industry...
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Liverpool scientists grapple with the ageing process A major study aimed at slowing down the ageing process has been launched by scientists at Liverpool John Moores University. They will...
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Today's news
Undergraduates to mark school exams University students will be used to mark GCSE and A-level papers under government plans to tackle a shortage of examiners. Charles Clarke, the education secretary...
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Mandela leaflet is banned
There was a time when student activists worshipped the then imprisoned South African freedom fighter Nelson Mandela, voting to name their union buildings after him. Now Birmingham University's guild...
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Flamingos show individuality
Researchers have found that flamingos are far more individual than anyone had imagined. The movements and habits of four individuals from the most endangered variety, the "lesser flamingo",...
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Skills network offers students a passport to the world
Institutes of technology in Australia, the US and Canada have established an education network to develop an "international skills passport" that will give students global employment opportunities....
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SA blacks still suffer 'campus racism'
Racism is forcing black academics to leave South Africa's universities, thwarting efforts to make campuses more diverse and representative, a report says. Nearly a decade after the end of apartheid,...
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Vigilante attack claims investigated
The University of Stellenbosch has launched an investigation into claims that black, gay and Jewish students have been attacked in its hostels by rightwing vigilante groups, writes Karen MacGregor. A...