For the record
Gloucestershire joins the university ranks England's first new university in a decade was created this week as the Privy Council confirmed that it had awarded the title to Cheltenham and Gloucester...
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Jobs must go to make UK books balance
Universities up and down Britain this week announced job cuts as they struggled to balance their books in the face of falling student numbers and budget cuts. Staff at the University of Manchester...
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Bring this supply in from the cold
The UK's army of part-time lecturers, who teach up to a third of undergraduate degrees, has lacked support and secure employment for too long, says Richard Blackwell. My experience of part-time...
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Entrepreneurs put on research cap
Specialist posts, sabbaticals and secondments for academics and captains of industry and staff training have emerged as Scottish university strategies to exploit the commercial potential of research...
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Glittering prizes
University of Leeds academics have won the following prizes: Richard Smithells , emeritus professor of paediatrics, has won the Kennedy Foundation's International Award for Scientific Achievement for...
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Analysis: How deep must students dig?
In the second of our series on what the government must address in its upcoming strategy paper, Alison Goddard considers the case for top-up and differential fees. Despite prime minister Tony Blair's...
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Anna Birulés: We need to boost the role of the outermost regions as a work platform in the European Area of Research and Innovation
Brussels, 26 June 2002 Minister Birulés highlights these regions' potential for R&D stemming from their geographical features and variety of natural environments Las Palmas, 24/06/2002 In...
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Global earth observation plan takes critical step forward
28 November 2003 Italy Hosts Second Follow Up Meeting to Earth Observation Summit The ad hoc intergovernmental Group on Earth Observations (GEO) will hold its second meeting on November 28-29 in...
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Global earth observation plan takes critical step forward
28 November 2003 Italy Hosts Second Follow Up Meeting to Earth Observation Summit The ad hoc intergovernmental Group on Earth Observations (GEO) will hold its second meeting on November 28-29 in...
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Don's diary: Filming Shanghai boom
Tuesday Below a fog of pollution and moisture, the Beijing summer is in full swing. We are on our way to shoot Shanghai Boom , the video for an Open University interdisciplinary course on the...
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Battling British: Boudicca et al
The Oxford Companion to Military History - Warrior Race
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Commissaire Philippe Busquin: "Plantes pour le futur" Une vision européenne pour la biotechnologie des plantes en 2025 Conférence de presse Bruxelles, le 24 juin 2004
24/06/2004 Mesdames et Messieurs, Le Conseil européen du printemps 2003 (mars) a lancé un appel « pour que l’espace européen de la recherche et de l’innovation soit consolidé par la création de...
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EU-funded project launches driverless taxis
Brussels, 18 January 2002 An innovative type of driverless taxi which runs on tracks, developed under the EU-funded project EDICT (evaluation and demonstration of innovative city transport), was...
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On the trail of hunters who took to the land
Pinpointing when hunter-gatherers became farmers calls for clever science and detective work. Geoff Watts met sleuths piecing together the evidence. The Neolithic revolution may not be as familiar as...
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ESA's Artemis satellite reaches geostationary orbit - from total loss to full recovery
Paris, 18 Feb 2003 In the late afternoon of Friday 31 January, a final trim manoeuvre nudged Artemis into its assigned position in geostationary orbit, completing a most remarkable satellite recovery...