All-seeing eye watches but often fails to notice
Research shows CCTV is oversold, but its ubiquity stifles work on other means of crime prevention, says Mike Press. Tackling crime is not rocket science - it is more complicated than that. But...
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Beware of fame-hungry climate change deniers
Dissident academics are helping to give the global warming denial lobby its veneer of credibility, says Bob Ward The most authoritative analysis yet of the options for mitigating climate change will...
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Dressed up to sing and rebel
Chartism
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Danish parliament asked to look into biotech for foods of the future
Brussels, 12 Nov 2004 A new Danish 'farm-to-fork' strategy has called on the country's parliament to investigate the role biotechnology could play in designing better tasting and safer foods. The ten...
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Innovative Medicines Initiative path around bottlenecks to R&D efficiency favours setting up a European Medicines Research Academy (EMRA) (lenhth))
Brussels, 20 Sep 2006 The Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) has published a new version of its strategic research agenda (SRA), outlining strategies to overcome specific 'bottlenecks' to...
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After the gold rush
Ireland's economic boom brought equally impressive growth in higher education enrolment. But in a chillier fiscal climate, what awaits the Celtic Tiger's universities? Hannah Fearn reports
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Appointments
Sir Martin Harris, the head of the Office for Fair Access, has been elected president of Clare Hall, Cambridge. Sir Martin, a former vice-chancellor of the universities of Essex and Manchester and a...
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Published this week
? = review forthcomingART AND DESIGN- Art and Design at Brighton 1859-2009: From Arts and Manufactures to the Creative and Cultural IndustriesEdited by Philippa Lyon, research fellow in the Centre...
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingARCHAEOLOGY- Rome and Environs: An Archaeological GuideBy Filippo Coarelli, professor of Greek and Roman antiquities, University of Perugia, translated by James J. Clauss,...
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Chemistry round-up
Chemical Structure and Reactivity: An Integrated ApproachAuthors: James Keeler and Peter WothersEdition: FirstPublisher: Oxford University PressPages: 944Price: £38.99ISBN 9780199289301The authors...
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ITRE committee warns against any reduction in proposed FP7 budget
Brussels, 30 May 2005 The chair of the Parliament's industry, research and energy (ITRE) committee, Giles Chichester, has written to the European Parliament President Josep Borrell to express the '...
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The European Investment Bank supports promising R&D projects
Helsinki, 28 October 2005 The European Investment Bank supports promising R&D projects 2005 EIB Forum: “Lisbon Strategy – Closing the Gap” took place in Helsinki...
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Embrace, don't shun, ethos of business
Tim Wilson, vice-chancellor of Hertfordshire, calls for the creation of a new generation of commerce-friendly universities. It has been heartening for academe to hear Government and Opposition...
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Bids invited for mutual gain
As India and the UK strengthen research links through a government-backed strategy, individual universities are really talking business. Olga Wojtas reports Academics and researchers across India and...
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EU research budget must be protected
Brussels, May 2005 Giles CHICHESTER (EPP-ED, UK), who chairs Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, has written to the President of Parliament, Josep BORRELL, expressing his...