Skills are the business
The article "Business will pay if courses meet needs" ( THES, March 28) bears little relevance to the accompanying photograph of student engineers with a racing car they built in six months as part...
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Skills flagship fails to inspire
The government's skills strategy came under fire this week as figures revealed that success rates among students on modern apprenticeship programmes have in some cases fallen to as low as 16 per cent...
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RDAs 'slow down tech transfer'
Excessive bureaucracy in Regional Development Agencies is threatening to slow down knowledge transfer, universities warned the Lords science and technology committee this week. The government's white...
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Twenty year Anglo-Italian science partnership to continue
Brussels, 01 Jun 2004 Cooperation between Italy's National Research Council (CNR) and the UK's Council for Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (CCLRC), which was first forged 20 years ago, is...
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Â鶹 Grown Cereals Authority
Deadline: 31/12/2049
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Commissioner Janez POTOCNIK: Networking and clustering as motors of innovation and entrepreneurship in Europe -- Closing Ceremony of the European BIC Network/International Association of Science Parks
Nantes, 20 May 2005 Minister Fillon, Mr Ayrault, Ladies and gentlemen, I welcome the opportunity to speak to you in the closing session of this conference on networking and clustering - important...
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'We should stop running away from the past'
An unwillingness to confront the legacy of slavery harms the prospects of black males, says the first African-American head of an Ivy League university. David Jobbins meets her. Almost 200 years...
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"Plants for the future": A European vision for plant biotechnology towards 2025
Brussels, 16 Jun 2004 WHO? Philippe BUSQUIN, European Commissioner for Research Feike SIJBESMA (NL), President of EuropaBio Andrzej LEGOCKI (PL), President of the Polish Academy of Sciences WHAT?...
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UK to establish new centre for 3Rs research
Brussels, 24 May 2004 The UK Government has announced that it is to establish a national centre for research into the 3Rs of animal experiments - replacement, refinement and reduction. Accompanying...
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Europe and Space: Turning to a new chapter
Brussels, 09 January 2002 Parliament will consider a Commission communication about the need to develop a more coherent European Space Strategy. The European Council decision of December 1999 called...
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Fuel cell technology could reduce CO2 emissions by 50 per cent, claims report
Brussels, 13 Jun 2003 Research carried out by the environmental group WWF and Fuel Cell Europe (FCEu) has shown that carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from European fossil fuel power generation could be...
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UK film has talent but not backing
British universities have helped fuel the rapid growth of the country's creative industries, but this drive has not been matched by policy-makers, particularly those responsible for film policy,...
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Decline in EU funding for environmental research should be 'reconsidered', says Commission
Brussels, 28 Jan 2005 A communication from the European Commission has called for the 'constantly decreasing relative priority given to environmental and energy research' to be reconsidered. The 2004...
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We can't afford to 'wait and see' Potocnik tells informal Competitiveness Council
Brussels, 14 Jul 2005 'Concentrating our efforts in Europe on knowledge has no real alternative. I do not underestimate the problems that we currently face,' concluded EU Commissioner for Science and...
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Scrap the RAE, says report
Academics should bid for all research cash rather than expect money to be dished out according to scores achieved in a "flawed" research assessment exercise, according to a think-tank report. The...