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Cambridge design faculty under threat The department of architecture at Cambridge University is facing closure after failing to meet the university's research standards. The General Board, which...
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Germany has failed to legislate for biotech patents: judgment (C-005/04)
Luxembourg, 28 October 2004 C-5/04, Commission des Communautes europeennes contre Republique federale d'Allemagne Judgment of the Court of Justice (Fourth Chamber) on 28 October 2004 (link to English...
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Austria has failed to legislate for biotech patents: judgment (C-4/04)
Luxembourg, 28 October 2004 C-4/04, Commission des Communautes europeennes contre Republique d'Autriche Judgment of the Court of Justice (Fourth Chamber) on 28 October 2004 (link to English version...
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Austria has failed to legislate on deliberate release of genetically modified organisms into the environment: judgment (C-421/03)
Luxembourg, 28 October 2004 C-421/03, Commission des Communautes europeennes contre Republique d'Autriche Judgment of the Court of Justice (Fourth Chamber) on 28 October 2004 (link to English version...
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Agenda of the Working Party "Transport  Intermodal Questions and Networks", 8 November
Brussels, 28 Oct 2004 Full text of Document 3849/04 1. GALILEO­ Communication to the European Parliament and the Council "Moving to the deployment and operation phases of the European...
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EFSA GMO Panel Opinion on Insect-Tolerant Genetically Modified Maize 1507 (link)
Brussels, 28 Oct 2004 Opinion adopted by the EFSA GMO Panel on 24 September 2004 Opinion of the Scientific Panel on Genetically Modified Organisms on a request from the Commission related to the...
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New Zealand beats Europe in research restructuring race...
Brussels, 28 Oct 2004 Many of the European Union's Member States are currently in the process of rethinking the structure of their research systems. The rationale for this self-examination can...
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ERA is already in place but needs more focus, says UK expert
Brussels, 28 Oct 2004 The EU must drop the idea that the European Research Area (ERA) should be created from the top down, concentrate on users and establish a clearing-house for the collection of...
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NETIAM workshop on 'complexity at the molecular level'
Brussels, 28 Oct 2004 NETIAM, a series of workshops on new and emerging themes in industrial and applied mathematics supported through the Commission's NEST initiative, will hold an event on '...
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Training course for R&D evaluators
Brussels, 28 Oct 2004 The University of Twente is organising a four day training course for research and development (R&D) evaluators and government officials, to be held in Enschede, the...
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Laurie Taylor Column
University of Poppleton staff news Research assessment exercise The next research assessment exercise will cover the period to July 21 2007. Although a sizeable number of you will not be with us by...
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Alan Ryan
Class warfare starts in the womb and newly dreamt-up admissions tariffs are a blunt instrument with which to fight it Funny things, numbers. There we are with the Department for Education and Skills...
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Leader: Professor: more than just a title
What's in a name? Quite a lot in higher education, as regular spats over university titles have demonstrated down the years. And in a walk of life where prestige often has to compensate for better...
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Leader: Parity for part-timers
The new sliding scale of grants to be made available in 2005 will not satisfy those who have been campaigning to reverse the injustices heaped upon part-time students for as long as state support has...
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A bit of literal thinking
What a stroke of genius on the part of your correspondents Quentin Deakin, Richard Mullender (Letters, October 15), as well as Claire Sambrook, writing in The Guardian (October 23) to play along with...