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We will not set access quotas, Howells says Kim Howells, the new ÌÇÐÄVlog Minister, this week insisted that the Government had no "backdoor agenda" to interfere in university admissions and...
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Revised version of statement to WTO by Secretariat of Convention on Biological Diversity (link)
Geneva, 14 October 2004 Statement by the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) at the Committee on Trade and Environment, Special Session of 12-13 October 2004. Paragraph 31(i...
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Notes from the Greek and Polish Delegations on the Initiatives to Ensure the Co-existence of GMO Crops and Other Crops, Including the Setting Up of a European Task Force (link)
Brussels, 14 Oct 2004 Full text of Document 13430/04 Suite of documents 13430/04 Subject: Initiatives to ensure the co-existence of GMO crops and other crops, including the setting up of a European...
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EIB loan of EUR 250 million for Science and Innovation in Poland
Luxembourg, 14 Oct 2004 The Science and Innovation Framework Loan will support projects that are included in Poland's current and future Research and Innovation Investment Programmes. The EIB loan...
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ITRE committee endorses Potocnik and Verheugen
Brussels, 14 Oct 2004 Members of the European Parliament's Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) committee have delivered a positive verdict following the hearings of Janez Potocnik and Günter...
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Dutch researchers ready for EU ban on plastic softeners
Brussels, 14 Oct 2004 Concerns about the health impacts of phthalates mean that some researchers were able to react quickly to the decision by the EU Competitiveness Council on 24 September to ban...
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Evaluations in the European Research Area
Brussels, 14 Oct 2004 A conference entitled 'Evaluations in the European Research Area' will take place in Maastricht, the Netherlands, on October. The conference will include discussions on the...
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The biomarket and bioproducts
Brussels, 14 Oct 2004 An international commercial networking event on the biomarket and bioproducts for food will take place in Rothamsted, the UK, from 9 to 11 November. The Rothamsted International...
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Science and technology indicator reports - corrigendum to call for tenders
Brussels, 14 Oct 2004 The European Commission has issued a corrigendum to its call for tenders for support with the preparation of indicators, analysis and statistical issues related to the...
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Eurochambres' contribution to the open consultation on future European policy to support reasearch
Brussels, 14 Oct 2004 Full text [...] General comments EUROCHAMBRES welcomes the Commission's intention to increase the research efforts at overall European level to attain the Lisbon and Barcelona...
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Laurie Taylor column
More disturbing evidence of short-term casualisation in higher education - The Times Higher, October 8. Well, thank you for coming to see us today, Dr Cummings. I think everyone on this committee was...
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Leader: Beware the price of the hard sell
Organisations that sell cars, food and houses have long had to face up to the fact that the attractive documents they use to persuade customers to buy may turn round to bite them when things go wrong...
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Leader: Well-padded journals
There are few industries in which a company that has implemented price rises of per cent in the past four years can seem a model of restraint. But a new survey this week shows that this is the lowest...
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Let's stop this shameful elitism 1
With a little less flippancy and a little more thought, Gary Day (Opinion, October 8) would have made a more useful contribution to the debate on widening participation. Rather than bemoaning the...
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Let's stop this shameful elitism 2
The frightening thing about Gary Day's appeal for social exclusivity in the universities is that he probably means it. There is a good deal of prejudice here, but little logic. To take Day's field...