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Lord Birt tipped to become access regulator Wanted: aspiring bureaucrat to head the Orwellian "Access Regulator" that will make universities take more disadvantaged students. Step forward...
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Commission keeps ear to the ground with NEST programme
Brussels, 25 Mar 2003 The new and emerging science and technology (NEST) programme is an opportunity for the research community to tell us what is important, said William Cannell, head of unit for...
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Germany to support innovative production process projects
Brussels, 25 Mar 2003 The German Ministry of Education and Research is calling for innovative projects aimed at speeding up the production process and making it safer. The projects will be funded...
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EU funds university course in telecommunications and distributed systems
Brussels, 25 Mar 2003 Funding from the European Social Fund (ESF) is available for students wishing to study for an advanced Masters in telecommunications and distributed systems at the University of...
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ESA's free-fall laboratory poised to escape gravity's grip
Paris, 25 Mar 2003 This 'Zero-G' Airbus A300 parked on the tarmac at Bordeaux-Mérignac Airport is really a laboratory with wings. Within a week a dozen scientific teams will be aboard it as it...
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Pasteur: Payload opportunities to search for life on Mars
Paris, 25 Mar 2003 Are we alone, or is there life beyond Earth? Has life ever existed on Mars? The European Space Agency (ESA) is now offering scientists a rare opportunity to answer these...
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Marie Curie host fellowships helping the Commission fight brain drain
Brussels, 25 Mar 2003 The European Commission is raising the profile of its human resources and mobility initiatives as part of efforts to find the additional 500,000 scientists needed to achieve the...
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Today's news
Oxford top-up fees row Oxford University yesterday paved the way for introducing controversial top-up fees of up to £3,000 a year. Its ruling body rejected a motion opposing the charges drafted by...
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Latest research news
Research funding wasted, say MPs Dozens of the best medical scientists are being starved of money because the government's funding body prefers to support speculative projects that may never help...
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Commission raises profile of researchers to stop the brain drain
Brussels, 24 March 2003 In order to achieve the objective of raising Europe's investment in research to 3% of gross domestic product (GDP), as decided at the Barcelona European Council meeting in...
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Summary of Conclusions of the meeting of the COST Strategy Issues Group (SIG), 7 March 2003 (link)
Brussels, 24 Mar 2003 Full text of Document 223/03 Subject: Third meeting of the COST Strategy Issues Group (SIG) held in Brussels on 7 March 2003 1. ADOPTION OF THE AGENDA The Group adopted the...
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How fish oils can stifle greenhouse gases
Brussels, 24 Mar 2003 Farm animals produce around 22% of global emissions of the greenhouse gas methane. But Belgian scientists found a drop of fish oil in animal fodder could nearly halve that...
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UK opens new centres for scientific research
Brussels, 24 Mar 2003 March is shaping up to be a big month for UK research. Officials announced the opening of new research centres to tackle two pressing subjects facing European scientists in the...
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Scientific and innovative action are key to solving global water crisis, concludes report
Brussels, 24 Mar 2003 Ongoing coordinated scientific and innovative action is essential to tackling the global water crisis. This is just one of the conclusions from a recently published Commission...
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European scientists develop mouse model to study disease susceptibility in humans
Brussels, 24 Mar 2003 European scientists have recently developed a new method for studying gene mutations, which could lead to better understanding and treatment of childhood leukemias in humans....