Information and advice for technology start-ups
Brussels, 15 Jan 2004 Venturefest York, to take place on 5 February in York, the UK, will provide entrepreneurs and start-ups in technology sectors with information on setting up a new business,...
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The biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries in Europe - training seminar
Brussels, 15 Jan 2004 A training seminar on current manufacturing processes in Europen biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries will take place in London, UK, on 22 and 23 April. Topics for...
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Space technology in new technique to fight breast cancer
Paris, 15 Jan 2004 A novel non-invasive system for cancer treatment is being developed with technology from the European space industry. The first target for this new treatment, which could be ready...
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ESA's DG meets the press
Paris, 15 Jan 2004 Early this morning, ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain met with members of the press at ESA Headquarters in Paris to review the events of 2003 and to outline plans for 2004...
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Agenda of the Research Working Party and Joint Research/Atomic Questions Working Party, Monday 19 January 2004
Brussels, 15 Jan 2004 Full text of Document 155/04 RESEARCH WORKING PARTY 1. Commission White Paper on European Space Policy - Discussions with a view to a Council Resolution, including priorities...
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Conference 2004 - Modern Biology and Visions of Humanity: Preliminary programme updated
Brussels, 15 Jan 2004 Full text DG Research http://europa.eu.int/comm/dgs/research/i ndex_en.html Item source: http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/confe rences/2004/biology/programme_en.html
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Clarke moves to head off pre-fees rush
Charles Clarke has ordered funding chiefs to put the brakes on recruitment to degree courses in the run-up to the introduction of top-up fees. This week's official deadline for applications for...
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Cambridge ponders taping of interviews as more parents complain
Videotaping or recording interviews may be the only way to protect tutors against accusations of bias from failed students and their families, according to the master of the Cambridge college...
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In the news: Peter Gregson
Peter Gregson, the 46-year-old deputy vice-chancellor of Southampton University, will be the next vice-chancellor of Queen's University Belfast. He will succeed Sir George Bain, vice-chancellor since...
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Appointments
Geoff Hall , former director of learning programmes at the Learning and Skills Council, has been appointed principal and chief executive of New College Nottingham. The University of Oxford has...
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Last-ditch bid to win over rebels
University vice-chancellors are engaged in a desperate battle to get the higher education bill through a "knife-edge" vote at its second reading. Universities UK is demanding unity from all member...
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Top-ups 'threaten science'
Science deans this week warned Charles Clarke, the education secretary, that allowing popular non-science degrees to charge lower fees than unpopular science courses could cause irreversible damage....
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Ex-para jumps into fee debate
A former paratrooper who went from hating science at school to becoming a lecturer in quantum chemical dynamics says he would not have gone to university if top-up fees were in place. Keith Hughes,...
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Next week
MICKEY MOUSE DEGREES Are they all really Goofy? We put them to the test and uncover their serious side Also Terror ties Are restrictions on freedom of movement post 9/11 affecting academic debate?...
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Welsh MPs stand firm
Most Welsh Labour MPs are likely to vote against the higher education bill and will resist being "bought off" by the offer of devolved powers for Wales over student support, a leading rebel has...