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Clarke downgrades university degree targets Tens of thousands of young people qualified to go to university, and encouraged by the government to believe that they should go, will have to settle for...
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Guidelines for the development of national strategies and best practices to ensure the co-existence of genetically modified crops with conventional and organic farming (link)
Brussels, 25 Jul 2003 These guidelines are intended to help Member States to develop workable measures for co-existence in conformity with EU legislation. They set out the general principles and the...
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U.S. Panel Releases Strategic Plan on Climate Change - Plan includes support for new global observation system (link to full text)
Washington, 25 Jul 2003 Full text of the plan A U.S. multi-agency federal panel has issued a 10-year strategic plan to address what it says are some of the most complex questions the United States...
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European scientists set to put Einstein to the test
Brussels, 25 Jul 2003 Scientists from the French national research centre (CNRS) and the Italian institute for nuclear physics have completed work on an EU funded laser interferometer, a powerful...
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EU research disproves link between immigration and increased crime
Brussels, 25 Jul 2003 An EU funded report, reviewing 17 research projects, has concluded that there is no evidence of immigration leading to an increase in crime and unemployment. The studies...
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Record participation in the Descartes Prize
Brussels, 25 Jul 2003 Now in its fourth year, the Descartes Prize has established itself as a prestigious European award for scientific excellence, with record numbers of submissions and strong...
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The next steps in exploring deep space
Brussels, 25 Jul 2003 A workshop entitled 'the next steps in exploring deep space' will take place in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, on 22 and 23 September. The workshop builds on a study of the same...
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Congress of the European federation of neurological societies
Brussels, 25 Jul 2003 The seventh congress of the European federation of neurological societies (EFNS) will be held from 30 August to 2 September in Helsinki, Finland. The scientific programme for...
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ESA is hot on the trail of Geminga
Paris, 25 Jul 2003 Astronomers using ESA's X-ray observatory, XMM-Newton, have discovered a pair of X-ray tails, stretching 3 million million kilometres across the sky. They emanate from the...
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UK report calls for more transparency in assessment of Framework Programmes
Brussels, 25 Jul 2003 A newly published report by the UK parliament's science and technology select committee has called for more openness in the setting of priorities and assessment of new...
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One in five Oxford students works on the side Nearly a fifth of students at Oxford University are forced to earn money during term time despite the fact that the official policy strongly discourages...
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Study shows Europe how to reach Kyoto target
Brussels, 24 Jul 2003 Deploying high-temperature superconductor (HTS)-based devices in the EU's electric power grid could help reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by up to 52 million tonnes,...
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Next Steps for International Protection of Traditional Knowledge in View
Geneva, 24 Jul 2003 21 July 2003 - The General Assembly of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), meeting from September 22 to October 1, 2003, will consider future directions for the...
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European conference on the spectroscopy of biological molecules
Brussels, 24 Jul 2003 The tenth European conference on the spectroscopy of biological molecules will take place from 30 August to 4 September in Szeged, Hungary. The main aim of the conference is to...
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Support for the coherent development of policies - call for various studies
Brussels, 24 Jul 2003 The European Commission has published a call for proposals for miscellaneous studies under the Sixth Framework Programme's 'support for the coherent development of policies'...