Another piece of Europe in your pocket
Paris, 21 Mar 2003 Health-care experts met in Barcelona last weekend to discuss what an EU press release describes as "another piece of Europe in your pocket". The workshop on electronic health cards...
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Today's news
Oxbridge courts primary school children State-school children as young as ten are being courted by Oxford and Cambridge in an attempt to increase the numbers of working-class students...
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Exam results improve with fatherly input Children with fathers involved in their upbringing are more successful in exams and less likely to get a criminal record, a conference in Oxford is to hear...
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Mars Express leaves for Baikonur
Paris, 20 Mar 2003 Mars Express, the first European spacecraft to visit the planet Mars, has completed its tests at Toulouse, France. After six months extensive thermal environmental, mechanical and...
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Science and technology transfer event, Copenhagen
Brussels, 20 Mar 2003 The association of European science and technology transfer professionals (ASTP) will hold a conference on 'best practices in transfer of science and technology' in Copenhagen,...
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EU and Russia strengthen cooperation in space
Brussels, 20 Mar 2003 Both EU Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin and Director-General of Rosaviakosmos, the Russian space agency, Yuri Koptev, made moves to further strengthen cooperation in the...
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ESA presents SMART-1: Europe to the Moon, the Moon for Europe
Paris, 20 Mar 2003 The European Space Agency will present its SMART-1 lunar mission to the press on 3 April 2003. The event will take place at the European Space Technology Research Centre (ESTEC),...
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Global security a key priority for European space policy, says Busquin
Brussels, 20 Mar 2003 Current global tensions underline the need for an effective space programme which meets the EU's security needs, Commissioner for Research Philippe Busquin has said. Speaking at...
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Today's news
Universities will use aptitude tests to filter students Universities will strongly resist the government's attempt to interfere with their admission procedures through the regulator said Sir Derek...
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Extra tests used to help access drive
Extra tests and supplementary application forms are being used by universities to boost the number of students they take from lower socioeconomic groups, writes Alison Goddard. The universities of...
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Model of true autonomy free from state bondage
Buckingham shows how the state could support a UK Ivy League, argues Terence Kealey Did we nationalise the universities the wrong way? Until the first world war, British universities were independent...
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Don's diary: Conversations to counter media corruption
Monday Miraflores, Lima. Peru is struggling with the legacy of ex-president Alberto Fujimori's authoritarian regime. Manipulation and corruption of the media were rampant. The country has unregulated...
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What Dr Dexter did next
As Mike Dexter prepares to leave his post in London as director of the Wellcome Trust next week, all eyes are on what he will do next. Dr Dexter, 57, who turned down a two-year extension to his...
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Twins with competitive stroke
Twin sisters Kathryn and Robyn Farmer will be competing on different sides in this year's women's university boat race. Kathryn has been selected for the Cambridge team and Robyn for the Oxford squad...
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Please, sir, can I have more?
Sir Gareth Roberts was called before the House of Lords select committee on science last week. Asked by a member of the committee how he felt his report, SET for Success: the Supply of People with...