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Co-existence of genetically modified and conventional crops: roundtable on latest research results
Brussels, 4 April 2003 A roundtable meeting to examine the latest research results on the co-existence of GM and non-GM crops will be hosted by the European Commission on Thursday 24 April. A wide...
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Commission uses high tech measurements to tackle urban air pollution
Brussels, 30 January 2003 The European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) has launched an innovative joint pilot study together with regional Italian environmental protection agency Agenzia...
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Netgazette
APPOINTMENTS The British Library Philip Davies , professor of American studies at De Montfort University and chair of the British Association for American Studies, has been appointed director of the...
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Scrolla set to boost ICT study
Three universities have joined together to set up the Scottish Centre for Research into On-Line Learning (Scrolla), whose aims include strengthening links between online teaching researchers and the...
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Clouded view as two wars collide
A Great Civil War
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Equity can trip us up
Initiatives to give students a career boost may be failing those most in need, argues John Brennan If you were born on the wrong side of the tracks and you haven't become a professional footballer or...
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Reaching for stars
The THES examines how countries are turning brain drain into brain gain. Awards that top up salaries are bringing talent back to the UK. Julia Hinde reports. When Roger Pedersen, a prominent American...
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Morris opens ivory towers to hit target
Education secretary Estelle Morris announced this week that higher education was to be redefined, possibly to include some further education, as a platform on which the government would base its...
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'We've gone beyond bottom pinching... but this is worse'
Institutionalised sexism discourages many women from a career in science. What's being done about it? asks Helen Hague. Baroness Greenfield broke the pre-publication purdah surrounding her keenly...
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E-learning guru joins IT centre
E-learning guru Steve Molyneux has been appointed director of a national research centre that will investigate the impact of information technology on education, training and employment. The...
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Let universities throw off shackles of the state
Labour's review of higher education must create the conditions for adequate funding, says Richard Brown Higher education is vital for the future wealth and social development of the UK. Yet...
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Biotechnology sector needs proper application of EU patent law, says Commission report
Brussels, 10 th October 2002 All Member States must fully and swiftly implement the 1998 Directive on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions (Directive 98/44 ,see MEMO/00/39 ) or Europe...
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Liftoff for Aurora: Europe's first steps to Mars, the Moon and beyond
Paris, 11 Oct 2002 Step by step, the European Space Agency's new Aurora space exploration programme is beginning to take shape. This ambitious programme, started by ESA in January 2002, sets out a...
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We'll raise you seven prisons
As Labour tries to out-bid the Tories in the fight against crime, nobody has checked the facts, say Roger Matthews and Jock Young. Between 1995 and 1999 there was a 23 per cent drop in the crime rate...