Fizzy day falls flat with the price tag
At Brighton University's awards ceremony, Laurie Taylor finds there is no such thing as a free drink. Outside the Brighton Dome, the billboards are still singing the wonders of last week's stand-up...
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Top state students miss out on elite places Some 3,000 state-school pupils are missing out on their rightful place at elite universities to less-qualified students from the independent sector,...
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Nutricia Research Foundation
Deadline: 30/09/2004
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Challenges of biodiversity science: Eurodiversity
Deadline: 30/09/2004
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Latest research news
Boost for paediatric drugs research Drug companies will be encouraged to research and develop medicines specifically for children under new government plans. Lord Warner, the Health Minister, said...
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Today's news
Time to restore shine to gold standard exams Speaking just 48 hours before the publication of this year's results, David Miliband, the Schools Minister, admitted yesterday that while more than 21 per...
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British Society for Parasitology
Deadline: 15/09/2004
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British Psychological Society
Deadline: 19/09/2004
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Today's news
A-level grades a lottery, says expert Examination results should be treated with caution as an unreliable and insufficient guide to youngsters' overall ability, according to research conducted by...
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Today's news
A-level results spark standards row The annual row over whether A levels are becoming too easy kicked off in earnest yesterday as experts predicted that Thursday's results will show another record-...
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Results and Papers from the "Europe of Knowledge 2020" Conference (links)
Brussels, 13 Aug 2004 Conference results Proceedings DE EN FR (PDF, 485kb) (French and German versions available soon) Session 1: Knowledge production and certification Introduction to the session (...
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Commission report: Research and technological development activities of the Union 2003 Annual Report (link)
Brussels, 13 Aug 2004 Commission report: Research and technological development activities of the Union 2003 Annual Report Full Text [...] Brussels, 2.8.2004 COM(2004) 533 final
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Next CEN Nanotechnology Working Group Meeting set for 8 October
Brussels, 13 Aug 2004 In March 2004, the CEN Technical Board (BT) created CEN/BTWG 166 'Nanotechnology'. The Working Group reports to the CEN/BT and its secretariat is with the BSI (British Standards...
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Photographs of the 25 members of the Barroso Commission (link)
Brussels, 13 Aug 2004 Photographs of the 25 members of the Barroso Commission
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Cluster finds giant gas vortices at the edge of Earth's magnetic bubble
Paris, 13 Aug 2004 ESA's quartet of space-weather watchers, Cluster, has discovered vortices of ejected solar material high above the Earth. The superheated gases trapped in these structures are...