Update: 12:50
Stanford announces 2004 salary freeze Stanford University, the latest US university to be hit by the plunging stock market, faces a projected $25 million (£15.7 million) deficit and...
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Class gap target for universities is ditched Higher education minister Margaret Hodge has been forced to retract a specific pledge on closing the class gap in universities under pressure from Charles...
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Open coordination for the European Research Area (Extracted from Preparation of the Competitiveness Council)
Brussels, 28 th February 2003 Preparation of the Spring European Council (FF/JT) The Council will endorse the Report of the Competitiveness Council to the Spring European Council. This report has...
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Commission and ESA helping to bring safer aviation to Africa
Brussels, 28 Feb 2003 The first African trials of the European global navigation overlay service (EGNOS) took place on board flights into the Senegalese capital of Dakar between 24 and 26 February....
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International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) (Extracted from Preparation of the Competitiveness Council)
Brussels, 28 th February 2003 In anticipation of a full progress report to be presented at the forthcoming Competitiveness Council on 12/13 May, Commissioner Busquin will present the preliminary...
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Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights (Extracted from Preparation of the Competitiveness Council)
Brussels, 28 th February 2003 Mr Bolkestein will present the Commission's recently adopted proposal ( IP/03/144 and MEMO/03/20 ). The objectives of the proposal are to harmonise national laws on the...
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ESA reschedules European participation in Soyuz flights in a spirit of solidarity with International Space Station partners
Paris, 28 Feb 2003 The European Space Agency (ESA) has agreed to six-month postponements of the Soyuz flights by two members of its astronaut corps planned for April and October 2003. The agreement...
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Envisat celebrates first anniversary in space
Paris, 28 Feb 2003 One year ago tonight, the largest and most sophisticated Earth observation satellite ever built blazed a fiery trail into the night skies above French Guiana and became another...
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Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) (Extracted from Background for the Environment Council of 4 March)
Brussels, 28 Feb 2003 The Council will be informed by the Commission on the resumption of authorisation procedures for new genetically modified (GM) food products (i.e. lifting of GMO moratorium in...
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Paternal genes responsible for reoccurring 'prolonged pregnancies', claims Danish researchers
Brussels, 28 Feb 2003 Paternal genes can affect timing of birth and contribute to the risk of reoccurring 'prolonged pregnancies', suggests a recent study by Danish scientists. Annette Wind Olesen, a...
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Draft Report from the Committee of Senior Officials to the Ministerial Conference on the state and future of COST (link)
Brussels, 28 Feb 2003 Full text of Document 220/03 The draft will be discussed by the JAF Group at its next meeting on 21 March 2003. DG C EN DRAFT REPORT FROM THE COMMITTEE OF SENIOR OFFICIALS...
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Community Patent (Extracted from Preparation of the Competitiveness Council)
Brussels, 28 th February 2003 The Council will seek to agree on the main outlines of the proposed Community Patent, including a system of jurisdiction whereby a Community Court would rule on disputes...
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Green Paper on European Space Policy (Extracted from Preparation of the Competitiveness Council)
Brussels, 28 th February 2003 European Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin will present the Green Paper on European Space Policy (COM(2003)17 final), as adopted by the Commission on 21 January...
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Knowledge transfer from university to industry workshop
Brussels, 28 Feb 2003 A workshop entitled 'knowledge transfer from university to industry' will take place in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, on 10 and 11 April. The event, which has been organised by the...
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Update: 13:00
Strikes cause disruption at Yale Yale university faces disruption today as unionised workers and several hundred graduate students who are seeking union recognition stage a five-day strike....