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Scots told to give scientists a boost
Scotland should give contract researchers a better deal in a bid to boost the science base, a review group has told Henry McLeish, Scotland's minister for enterprise and lifelong learning. Mr McLeish...
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Spinoffs put UK in the lead
British universities compare favourably with their North American counterparts in their links with business, a survey has shown. UK universities spun off 199 companies in 1999-2000 - one company for...
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Opposition to GMOs continues to affect EU policy implementation, says Busquin
Brussels, 07 May 2003 Europe already has a clear and reliable policy on genetically modified organisms (GMOs), but opposition from Member States and other external factors are still thwarting its...
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GMES ready for implementation phase
Brussels, 05 Feb 2004 After a three year exploratory period, the EU's Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) initiative is ready for the next step on the road to becoming operational,...
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GMES ready for implementation phase
Brussels, 05 Feb 2004 After a three year exploratory period, the EU's Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) initiative is ready for the next step on the road to becoming operational,...
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OECD Berlin Workshop to Discuss Costs and Benefits of Protection of Gene-Based Inventions, 24-25 January 2002
Paris, 15 January 2002 Gene-based inventions offer tremendous promise in improving human health and contributing to economic growth. But to deliver on this promise, a fair and effective system of...
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RAE faces axe in DTI review
The research assessment exercise could be scrapped because it is failing to provide "bang for bucks". The Department for Trade and Industry, which is looking at the RAE under its plans to introduce a...
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Experts discuss future research directions at Presidency event
Brussels, 30 May 2002 The Spanish Presidency of the EU brought together more than 300 experts from within and outside the EU at a conference in Seville on 13 and 14 May, to examine policy decisions...
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Faithful duo woos inventive students
The University of Cambridge and Rolls-Royce are extending their long term partnership in a deal that will finance a new gas turbine research centre in Cambridge. The rolling five-year agreement is...
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Today's news
British undergraduates will be a minority at Oxford Oxford University's governing council has drawn up strategy documents that would recast the institution along the lines of an US-style Ivy League...
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Today's news
British undergraduates will be a minority at Oxford Oxford University's governing council has drawn up strategy documents that would recast the institution along the lines of an US-style Ivy League...
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SOAS since the Sixties
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IT news in brief
Ucas targets training The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service and Gloucestershire College of Arts and Technology will jointly launch a business and community training centre in Cheltenham...
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'Psychocivilised' or a band of neurochemical slaves?
Forget crack - in the Decade of the Mind, legal 'smart drugs' are de rigueur. Steven Rose urges debate on the future of neuroscience We are halfway through what has, somewhat hubristically, been...