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Students expect to leave with top degree High expectations, fuelled by "grade creep", have led to 86 per cent of undergraduates expecting to leave university with a first-class or upper second degree...
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Philippe Busquin Commissaire européen chargé de la Recherche, Discours Dies Academicus de l'Université de Genève, 5 juin 2003
Gen ève, 5 juin 2003 Monsieur le Recteur, Mesdames, Messieurs, C'est un très grand plaisir, pour moi, de pouvoir m'exprimer devant vous à l'occasion de ce "Dies Academicus" 2003. Avant tout, je...
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Cooperation in Scientific and Technical Research (COST) Ministers Declaration of Dubrovnik, 27 May 2003, and the MoU with the European Science Foundation to implement the COST programme (link)
Brussels, 05 Jun 2003 Full text of Document 252/03 Suite of documents 252/03 Council Register
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Summary of Conclusions of the JAF Group meeting held in Thessaloniki on 7 - 8 May 2003 (link)
Brussels, 05 Jun 2003 Full text of Document 250/03 Suite of documents 250/03 Council Register
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ESA providing Kyoto estimates of French Guiana's tropical forests
Paris, 05 Jun 2003 ESA is providing data from its Earth observation satellites to monitor the tropical forests in French Guiana and help the French government meet its obligations under the...
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Participation of non-COST countries in COST Actions (link)
Brussels, 05 Jun 2003 Full text of Document 248/03 Suite of documents 248/03 Council Register
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Summary of Conclusions of the 5th meeting of the COST Strategy Issues Group (SIG) held in Thessaloniki on 7 - 8 May 2003 (link)
Brussels, 05 Jun 2003 Full text of Document 251/03 Suite of documents 251/03 Council Register
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New Soyuz TMA spacecraft cleared for next mission with ESA astronaut
Paris, 05 Jun 2003 The new Soyuz TMA spacecraft, which will carry ESA astronaut Pedro Duque to the ISS and back in October 2003, has been fully approved for operations. This was announced by Nikolai...
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Excellent response to first Priority 3 call
Brussels, 05 Jun 2003 There was a high response to stage one of the call for proposals for Priority 3, with a 17% success rate in the April 2003 evaluation. A workshop on 8 May clarified the main...
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Nanocoatings lighten environmental burden of mobility
Brussels, 05 Jun 2003 NANOMAG is developing corrosion-resistant nanocomposite coatings to replace hazardous chromium-based coating treatments for magnesium alloys applicable specifically to the needs...
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Microfluidic analysis offers low-cost solution for water quality monitoring
Brussels, 05 Jun 2003 The Commission-funded MicroChem initiative culminated in the successful demonstration of prototype miniaturised laboratory-on-a-chip systems suitable for rapid field testing of...
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More autonomy for blind people thanks to satellite navigation
Paris, 05 Jun 2003 When blind people take a taxi, they will be able to give directions to the taxi driver!" says Jose Luis Fernandez Coya. The man speaking really knows what he is talking about: he...
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Today's news
Lib Dem leader angers universities The Liberal Democrat leader, Charles Kennedy, sparked a row with university vice-chancellors yesterday after claiming that degree courses lack "intellectual rigour...
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Soaraway Sun sent away
Students at St John's College, Oxford, last week voted not to buy The Sun - and The Sun is livid about it. Dissenting students contacted the paper to complain about the decision not to buy it for the...
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Imperial's online decline
Imperial College London's web service for the personal use of its staff, students and alumni has gone belly up. Those who signed up for the all-singing, all-dancing groundbreaking web portal IC4Life...