E-envoy backs broadband bid
Britain has to make sure it becomes the world's number one broadband nation - not least to underpin effective lifelong learning - but it will take more than just government action to achieve that...
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Still a white man's world
Hefce is increasingly alarmed that only 13.1 per cent of professors are women and just 3.8 per cent are from ethnic minorities. Helen Hague reports The stresses and disappointments of working in...
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Don's Diary
Thursday The site I founded in my gap year, InfoYouth, for 16 to 24-year-olds, is launching in just under a week. Under the auspices of Schoolsnet, it will provide information for students on...
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Research faces big overhaul
Review heralds far-reaching research funding changes, says Alison Goddard. Research funding is to be radically reformed following a fundamental review published today by the funding council. More...
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The people v. the nerds
World War 3.0
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A hard sell for easy money
Singapore's dearth of universities has allowed unscrupulous providers, often backed by overseas institutions, to fill the gap, says one whistleblower. The other week I received an interesting...
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Right man at right time
FSA chairman Sir John Krebs played a pivotal role in the bid to control the foot-and-mouth epidemic. Caroline Davis talked to him. In March, after the first cases of foot-and-mouth disease were...
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Philippe Busquin: Présentation du Livre Blanc sur la Politique Spatiale européenne Conférence de presse - Salle de presse de la Commission Bruxelles, le 11 novembre 2003
Bruxelles, le 11 novembre 2003 Le Livre blanc Mesdames, messieurs les journalistes, merci de votre présence. Ce matin la Commission a adopté un Livre blanc sur la politique spatiale européenne. Ce...
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Philippe Busquin: Présentation du Livre Blanc sur la Politique Spatiale européenne Conférence de presse - Salle de presse de la Commission Bruxelles, le 11 novembre 2003
Bruxelles, le 11 novembre 2003 Le Livre blanc Mesdames, messieurs les journalistes, merci de votre présence. Ce matin la Commission a adopté un Livre blanc sur la politique spatiale européenne. Ce...
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Science projects suffer in squeeze
Strategic research by the British Geological Survey has suffered from a combination of government short-termism, the focused demands of commercial contracts and a long, gradual squeeze on science...
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Several steps ahead for the union dues
I WILL always remember the morning that Leon Brittan resigned from the Cabinet over the Westland affair. It was a marvellous occasion ripe with drama and intrigue. The great, the good and the bag...
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Trial Aids vaccine works on monkeys
In our focus on Italian research, Paul Bompard reports on new efforts to shake up an unequal and underfunded system. Below, he looks at the agonies and the ecstasies of medical researchers The...
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Philippe Busquin: Les sciences de la vie et les biotechnologies dans l'Espace européen de la Recherche Carrefour des biotechnologies Lille, le 15 octobre 2002
Lille, le 15 octobre 2002 Madame la Ministre, Mesdames et Messieurs, Pour un commissaire européen à la recherche, c'est une occasion rêvée de pouvoir s'adresser à une assemblée si diversifiée d'...
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Sylvan unveils subsidiary
Sylvan Learning Systems, which owns the private Universidad Europea de Madrid, has launched a $500 million (Pounds 317 million) subsidiary that will specialise in internet-based programmes. The...
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The right design
Engineering Design and Automation