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Sun alert as melanoma kills 1,000 men a year The number of British men who die each year from the skin cancer melanoma has exceeded 1,000 for the first time, specialists said yesterday. Although more...
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MPs intervene in lecturers' pay dispute MPs will question union leaders and university vice-chancellors today over the lecturers' pay dispute, which is disrupting exams. An emergency session of the...
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Lecturers' dispute brings nationwide disruption Thousands of students could be unable to graduate this summer as a result of a nationwide lecturers' boycott of exams, marking and assessment,...
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Companies benefit from making better use of women researchers
Vienna, 15 May 2006 Companies with well-managed gender mainstreaming policies often see an improvement in their economic performance. This is a key finding of a report on Women in Science and...
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Nanoswitches for bio-silicon communication
Brussels, 15 May 2006 Against the odds, European researchers have developed a versatile molecular switch which could play a key role in vast nanotechnology applications, including motors, relays and...
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Energy Minister predicts strong future for fuel cells
London, 15 May 2006 "Cars, homes, laptops and mobile phones, could all in future be powered by revolutionary fuel cells, and investors in this sector today are getting ahead of tomorrow's game", is...
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Standing at the bottom of the sea but looking at the stars
Brussels, 15 May 2006 Work on new type of telescope that will be used to detect the most elusive and mysterious of subatomic particles - neutrinos - has started the design phase, thanks to funding...
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British National Space Centre: Commercial space market is growing fast (DTI note on conference)
London, 15 May 2006 There are many commercial opportunities in space today was the message at the first ever space finance conference today. UK space experts and city financiers met today to discuss...
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Using Europe’s regions to generate knowledge
Brussels, 12 May 2006 Europe’s regions have a key role to play in the creation of a knowledge society in Europe, and the ability of the EU to reach its target of investing 3% of GDP in...
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Commission Communication Delivering on the Modernisation Agenda for Universities: Education Research Innovation (link)
Brussels, 12 May 2006 COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE COUNCIL AND THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT DELIVERING ON THE MODERNISATION AGENDA FOR UNIVERSITIES: EDUCATION, RESEARCH AND INNOVATION Full...
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Agenda of the Working Party "Transport  Intermodal Questions and Networks"/Working Party on Land Transport, 16 May 2006
Brussels, 12 May 2006 Full text of Document 1701/1/06 Revision 01 1. Proposal for a Council decision on the signing of the Cooperation Agreement on a Civil Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)...
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Provisional Agenda of the 1282nd Meeting of the Special Committee on Agriculture on 15 May 2006
Brussels, 12 May 2006 Full text of Document 9268/06 Suite of documents 9268/06 1. Adoption of the agenda 2. Proposals for Council Regulations - on organic production and labelling of organic products...
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Agenda of the Research Working Party, 15 May 2006
Brussels, 12 May 2006 Full text of Document 1751/06 1. Delivering on the modernisation agenda for universities: Education, Research and Innovation - Presentation of Commission communication 2. A.O.B...
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Today's news
Chinese university sacks dean over 'faked' research A Chinese university has dismissed one of its deans for allegedly faking research results in computer chip technology. Jiaotong University, in...
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V-cs start to dock pay
Academics face a "painful and nasty" summer term after union leaders this week rejected a 12.6 per cent pay offer and vice-chancellors hit back with moves to dock the salaries of those taking part in...