First blocks of a customised campus
A personalised service works wonders for Lego, but will the same tactic benefit students? asks Jessica Shepherd Bosses at Lego had a brainwave last September. Why not continue to mass produce the...
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Give people reasons to give and don't trust all to luck - but be nice and keep your fingers crossed
If serendipity does not drop a big gift in your lap, make sure you are courting donors, says Olga Wojtas Richard Davies, the Russian archivist of Leeds University library's special collections, was...
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'Law is not on our side, but honour is. We won't give up'
Oxford's Christ Church College is involved in a dispute with a Japanese university over a book that was stolen from its library. Peter McGill investigates Just over a decade ago, a rare 16th-century...
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It hasn't yet sunk in, but hippy is no longer chic
Why don't creative writing courses engage with the avant-garde 'naked' form of English today, asks Sara Wajid Globalisation and the internet are radically altering English, according to David Crystal...
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Eclectic mix on the rocks
Ice Blink: An Antarctic Essay was published by Book Works in collaboration with The Arts Catalyst, £13.50 In Ice Blink: An Antarctic Essay , published last month, Simon Faithfull mixes Palm Pilot...
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Tracker of talent with 200,000 in her sights
Deborah Eyre is compiling a register of the most able children, an initiative that she says promotes equality, not elitism. Claire Sanders meets her Tucked away on Warwick University's modern campus...
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Le Tribunal rejette le recours introduit par le groupe d'entreprises
10 mai 2006 Arrêt du Tribunal de première instance dans l'affaire T-9/03 Galileo International Technology LLC et e.a. / Commission des Communautés europé...
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Commission Report on the implementation of Regulation 1830/2003 concerning the traceability and labelling of GMOs and food and feed products produced from them (link)
Brussels, 10 May 2006 REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE COUNCIL AND THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT on the implementation of Regulation (EC) No 1830/2003 concerning the traceability and labelling of...
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OECD explores scientific challenges for meeting energy needs, Paris, 17-18 May
Paris, 10 May 2006 The OECD will gather representatives from energy companies, research funding agencies, industrial research and development managers, and top scientists to discuss the direction...
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European Commission establishes scientific partnership with the Amazon Co-operation Treaty Organization
Brussels, 10 May 2006 The European Commission and the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization are making joint efforts aimed at supporting the set up of Pan-Amazonian environmental information systems...
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Report warns Europe over lack of patents, while EPO workers strike over increased workload
Brussels, 10 May 2006 A new report warns that Europe is in danger of 'missing the boat' on commercial returns of nanotechnology, as the number of patent applications remain way below those from the...
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Newly-emerging diseases warrant renewed efforts in vaccine development, says report
Brussels, 10 May 2006 EASAC, the European Academies Science Advisory Council, has published a report in which it makes the case for renewed efforts by the EU to support vaccine innovation. The report...
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XMM-Newton reveals the origin of elements in galaxy clusters
Paris, 10 May 2006 Deep observations of two X-ray bright clusters of galaxies with ESA's XMM-Newton satellite allowed a group of international astronomers to measure their chemical composition with...
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Europe needs modernised universities, says European Commission
Brussels, 10 May 2006 The European Commission has today taken a position on how best to modernise Europe’s universities. This is fundamentally important for them to make their contribution...
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National Audit Office's report on termination of PFI contract for National Physical Laboratory
London, 10 May 2006 Report by the Comptroller and Auditor General. HC 1044 2005-2006, 10 May 2006 Full Report (1140 KB) ISBN: 0102937699. Price: £10.75 Executive Summary (256 KB) The...