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Foresight in action: Malta and the eFORESEE project
Brussels, 19 May 2003 With many of Europe's leading foresight practitioners gathered in Ioannina for the Greek Presidency conference on foresight in an enlarged European research and innovation area...
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Access-driven Hodge eases way for mergers
The government plans to make it easier for universities to collaborate with each other, with further education colleges and with industry as part of a reinvigorated widening participation policy to...
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Fewer tests on animals and safer drugs: new EU tests save 200,000 rabbits per year
Brussels, 12 May 2003 New, groundbreaking methods of drug testing to replace animals with safe alternatives, saving up to 200,000 rabbits per year, were unveiled today in Brussels by European...
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Face it, maybe you are a camel
Simon Blackburn goes in search of his inner 'Real Self' and finds his 'Old Self' Many philosophers set a lot of store by authenticity. In fact, the best ever piece of light verse about a philosopher...
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Network and Information Security - forthcoming Commission proposal on a security unit, resolution on a "culture of security" (Extract from: Provisional Version, Telecoms Council, 5 Dec)
Brussels, 06 Dec 2002 Å’ Proposal for a European network and information security unit The Council heard a report from the Commission on a proposal for a Regulation that it intends to present in the...
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Nuna II ready for its debut
Paris, 25 August 2003 On 19 October 50 racing cars will be in Darwin, Australia warming up for the start of the 7th World Solar Challenge; among them, a slick student-built machine that profits from...
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Ex-polys losers in research cull
Up to half the former polytechnics may be effectively stripped of their research role under proposals in the government's strategy document due next month. Education secretary Charles Clarke is...
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V-cs rail against two-tier threat
Vice-chancellors have warned the government not to create a two-tier system of higher education by taking research degree-awarding powers away from some universities and further concentrating...
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Trends in HE: Pioneers of urban frontier find kinship close to home
A sense of unity will enable new-generation universities to be loud and proud, says Janice Reid Around the world, new universities are feeling the challenges of a changing global economy and...
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Commission to invest EUR 2.2 billion in research projects for SMEs
Brussels, 25 September 2002 The European Commission will present its research initiatives devoted to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) at the 4 th SME Technology Days Conference which will...
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Flaws in marking revealed by QAA
Exam questions that fail to challenge students as well as questions that are repeated year after year are among the poor assessment practices that continue to threaten standards on university courses...
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Flaws in marking revealed by QAA
Exam questions that fail to challenge students as well as questions that are repeated year after year are among the poor assessment practices that continue to threaten standards on university courses...
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Now the genie is out of its bottle...
Beyond all Reason
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Quick off the press
Consultation on the Department of Trade and Industry's report on Science and Innovation Strategy ended this week. But late entrants should not hold their breath: it seems the paper is mostly written...