RAE faces axe in DTI review
The research assessment exercise could be scrapped because it is failing to provide "bang for bucks". The Department for Trade and Industry, which is looking at the RAE under its plans to introduce a...
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Faithful duo woos inventive students
The University of Cambridge and Rolls-Royce are extending their long term partnership in a deal that will finance a new gas turbine research centre in Cambridge. The rolling five-year agreement is...
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British undergraduates will be a minority at Oxford Oxford University's governing council has drawn up strategy documents that would recast the institution along the lines of an US-style Ivy League...
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Today's news
British undergraduates will be a minority at Oxford Oxford University's governing council has drawn up strategy documents that would recast the institution along the lines of an US-style Ivy League...
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Ucas targets training The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service and Gloucestershire College of Arts and Technology will jointly launch a business and community training centre in Cheltenham...
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'Psychocivilised' or a band of neurochemical slaves?
Forget crack - in the Decade of the Mind, legal 'smart drugs' are de rigueur. Steven Rose urges debate on the future of neuroscience We are halfway through what has, somewhat hubristically, been...
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European Space Policy debate returns to Leuven
Brussels, 12 Oct 2004 On 30 September 2004, high-level representatives from academia, government and the space sector gathered at the Catholic University of Leuven's historic Willem Van Croy...
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ESA backing SATMODE, interactivity via satellite for consumers
Paris, 31 Jan 2003 The European Space Agency (ESA) has joined forces with a team led by SES Astra (Lux) on a SATMODE development contract totalling EUR 49 million. SATMODE is a satellite return link...
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Space tech and textiles
Paris, 31 July 2002 Earlier this month ESA’s Technology Transfer Network met with 72 representatives of 53 European and Canadian textile companies in Lille, France. The idea - to brainstorm how...
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Can IT reduce the environmental impact of business?
Brussels, 13 Jun 2003 Under certain circumstances, downloading music from the Internet can have less of an impact on the environment than buying a pre-recorded CD, a recent report has claimed. The '...
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Plan will give students money and prospects
Queen Margaret University College in Edinburgh has launched a multi-pronged campaign to boost students' career opportunities without hampering their studies. A key element of QMUC's Investors in...
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Lack of information and public scepticism on agricultural biotechnology contribute to biotech companies leaving Europe
Brussels, 14 March 2003 Commission surveys published today indicate that, while most Europeans are in favour of medical applications of biotechnology, they are still sceptical about agricultural and...
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Not broke, don't fix it
Cambridge's plan to take ownership of most campus-generated intellectual property will do untold damage, writes Ross Anderson. Insurrection is brewing at Cambridge University over proposals to take...
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Outsiders are moving into pole position
As UUK meets this week, Claire Sanders looks at 'non-aligned' institutions. The power of "non-aligned" universities, those that sit firmly outside bodies such as the Coalition of Modern Universities...