Prudence on pay
If the Association of University Teachers is at odds with colleagues in other unions (Jocelyn Prudence, Letters, THES , November 14), it is because it does not strike two-year pay deals at 4am when...
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Les autres
As usual Laurie Taylor moved me to an involuntary snigger, this time with his column on solidarity with university administrators ( THES , November 14). It reminded me of when I was on an...
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Fat lot of good
Have the researchers who are developing a drug to burn excess fat ("Aston finds fat-buster clue", THES , 14 November) worked out the economics? We would be able to eat lots more fat and sugar with...
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Wrighting a wrong
Ever since he rejoined the Open University, Graham Gibbs has been a frequent visitor to the office next to mine to share a sandwich lunch with the occupant, Vicky Lewis, and on many occasions they...
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It's in the post-
"After theory"? Good riddance to poststructuralism, its flawed, failed ideas and obfuscations ("We're all theorists now", THES , November 14). Faced with a Kantian Nazi, Foucault's "very tenuous link...
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Photo fit?
May we have a proper photograph of Phil Baty? A man who can jump to far-fetched conclusions while blowing a whistle with his foot in his mouth should be something for the anatomists to ponder. Alan...
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Austria notifies Commission of Salzburg's draft legislation forbidding genetic engineering
Brussels, 19 November 2003 Notification according to Article 95(4) and (5) of the EC Treaty - Request for authorisation to introduce national provisions derogating from a Community harmonisation...
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Counterfeiting and piracy: EU research helps tackle the problem
Brussels, 19 November 2003 How can you be sure your watch is not a fake? How can you avoid a cargo container's shipment changing, or disappearing, between departure and the arrival? The Commission's...
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White Paper on Space: a New European Frontier for an Expanding Union  an Action Plan for Implementing the European Space Policy (link)
Brussels, 19 Nov 2003 Full text of Document 14886/03 Suite of documents 14886/03 Subject: WHITE PAPER Space: a new European frontier for an expanding Union ­ An action plan for implementing...
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Green Paper on European Space Policy: Report on the Consultation Process (link)
Brussels, 19 Nov 2003 Full text of Document 14886/03 Addendum 01 Suite of documents 14886/03 Subject: Green Paper on European Space Policy: Report on the consultation process ­ Information...
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EU funding of stem-cell research to be allowed under strict conditions
Strasbourg, 19 Nov 2003 Peter LIESE (EPP-ED, D) Report on the proposal for a Council decision amending decision 2002/834/EC on the specific programme for research, technological development and...
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Counterfeiting and piracy: EU research helps tackle the problem
Brussels, 19 Nov 2003 Summary: How can you be sure your watch is not a fake? How can you avoid a cargo container's shipment changing or disappearing between departure and arrival? The EC's JRC has...
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Parliament calls for a 70 per cent budget increase for FP7
Brussels, 19 Nov 2003 The European Parliament has unanimously adopted a report by German MEP Rolf Linkohr calling for the budget of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) to be raised to 30 billion...
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CRAFT project's giant robot will help prevent landslides
Brussels, 19 Nov 2003 Collaborators in an EU funded CRAFT project are about to build one of the world's largest robots, designed to prevent landslides without risking human lives. ROBOCLIMBER has...
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Young scientists come together in global network
Brussels, 19 Nov 2003 The closing session of the world science forum in Budapest, Hungary, on 18 November, saw the announcement of a new organisation for young researchers - the 'World academy of...