Innovation framework
Proposals for a European Union research and innovation framework programme will be discussed at the Stockholm Summit on March 23 and 24. The European Commission is proposing a budget of €17.5 billion...
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Standing firm
The European Parliament has resisted calls from lobbyists to unstitch the compromise that was struck over academic copying rights in the proposed digital copyright directive last year at the European...
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German novices receive support
A German university has set up a business incubator to help entrepreneurial students turn their internet ideas into successful e-business ventures. Frankfurt University's "unibator", the first of its...
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£120m boost for research
Scottish higher education has won £120 million in a series of funding boosts for research and commercialisation. Scotland's share of the Science Research Infrastructure Fund is £45 million, but the...
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Critical minds no longer welcome on campus
Struggling to get some sleep on the London flight, I thought about how often I had made the journey, and why this was the first time since my return to South Africa in 1983 that I had left without a...
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Why I... believe we need to do more to combat fraud in scientific research
Fraud in a scientific journal can range from having the same material published more than once, to plagiarism or the fabrication of data. We do not know how common it is. Some of us who take an...
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No more have-nots
Poorer pupils are put off HE by a system geared to the middle class. John Beckett argues for change. What does widening participation really mean? I pose the question as the widening participation/...
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Prepared for the next crisis?
Risk assessment is under threat when, as foot and mouth shows, it is essential, says Jim Bridges. The foot-and-mouth epidemic has highlighted yet again the need for rapid, independent and high-...
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Small cast, big hopes
A technique that lets you make a plastic mould of molecules could help clean blood of toxins and perform many industrial applications. Geoff Watts reports. Press a coin firmly into a piece of...
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World Watch
Bujumbura Rebel forces opposed to the government of Pierre Buyoya launched a series of rocket attacks on the National University of Burundi. Students and lecturers fled the campus, which...
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Latest international news
Israeli army cuts off campus The Israeli army has dug two trenches in the only road linking the Palestinian university of Bir Zeit to the rest of the West Bank, cutting telephone lines and water...
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Latest UK news
More men than women are student virgins One in five male students, and more than one in ten women students, are still virgins, a survey of 2,600 students by virginstudent.com revealed today. Lowest...
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From today's UK papers
Financial Times An industry-wide tax credit for research and development, proposed in the Budget, is unlikely to close Britain's productivity gap with other industrialised countries, the Institute...
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Academic awards
Royal College of Art The Sir Misha Black Medal for distinguished services to design education 2001 has been awarded to Yuri Soloviev in recognition of his development of the International Council of...
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Higher education appointments
University of Surrey Lecturers S. Fabri , mobile-satellite communications and networking. R. Tandon , marketing. Research officers D. Cox , school of electronics, computing and mathematics. K....