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Languages essential for European jobs, say Lords Peers today urged the government to keep foreign languages compulsory from age eight to 16 so that people can get ahead in the continental European...
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From today's UK papers
Sex row may stop Woodhead schools Chris Woodhead, the outspoken former head of Ofsted, has approached city investors for at least £30 million to launch his own chain of independent schools. But as...
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High time for tenure
Researchers will be helped little by new employment laws. Peter Totterdell calls for real change. In universities, research is usually something that gets fitted in between teaching, often in those "...
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Assembly uses carrot to get clusters
Welsh universities and colleges will get no extra funding unless they have reorganised themselves into geographical and "functionally meaningful" collaborative clusters by the end of next year, the...
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Chinese benefits lure Thai students
Growing numbers of Thai students are enrolling in Chinese universities, attracted by China's growing economic might, low tuition fees and high standard of university education. They are snapping up...
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MEP to recommend approval of patent proposals with amendments
Brussels, 07 March 2002 In a report to the European Parliament on 11 March, Spanish MEP and representative of the Parliament's Legal affairs committee, Ana Palacio Vallelersundi, will recommend...
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G10 medicines group sets out recommendations
Brussels, 07 March 2002 The creation of networks of virtual health institutes and improvements to the procedure for introducing innovative medicines to the market are among suggestions for...
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Commission to simplify rules on liability for FP6
Brussels, 07 March 2002 Simplified liability and management procedures for Community research actions in the Sixth Framework programme (FP6) could be introduced by the European Commission in response...
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Agenda: Conseil recherche - Brussels, 11 March 2002
Bruxelles, le 8 mars 2002 Le Conseil de l'Union européenne tiendra sa 2417e session (RECHERCHE) le lundi 11 mars 2002 (10h00) au Bâtiment Justus Lipsius à Bruxelles, sous la Présidence de Mme Ana...
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From today's UK papers
Plea for Blair's help over education cash Education secretary Estelle Morris is expected to appeal to prime minister Tony Blair to help her secure extra cash from chancellor Gordon Brown for...
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Scientists call for reason in GM row
The most heated academic dispute over genetically modified organisms since Arpad Pusztai fed potatoes to his laboratory rats has prompted 100 prominent scientists from across the globe to petition...
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The world won't wait for us
Without modern governance, Cambridge risks losing its leading global position, argues Malcolm Grant Cambridge is one of the world's truly great universities. Yet keeping its position in the world is...
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Why I... believe in the healing power of memory
Memory is a dynamic and creative force that seeks not only past understanding but also future inspiration. We remember for ourselves - but also, and more important, we remember for the benefit of our...
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Commission supports inter-parliamentary meeting on renewable energy
Brussels, 07 March 2002 The fourth inter-parliamentary meeting on renewable energy resources in the EU will take place in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, from 19 to 21 April. The European Commission,...
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Spanish agriculture minister signs Latin American food research agreement
Brussels, 07 March 2002 An agreement supporting research into new technologies for food distribution has been signed by the Spanish Minister for agriculture, fisheries and food and current president...