'Stab in the back' 2
Advocates of the policy of taking cash from grade 4 departments to fund increases elsewhere fail to understand (or choose to ignore) the fact that the quality of research in a department rated 4a is...
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A head for facts
Claire Sanders ("There's comfort in hanging on to your head", THES , March 14) implies in her opening paragraphs that no chancellor of Oxford University has yet been executed. This neatly gets round...
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Fun with sadists 1
I was interested to learn that Giancarlo Nivoli of the University of Sassari in Italy considers that many of his compatriot colleagues suffer from mental illness and that this causes their students...
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Number and variety of publications reveal strengths and weaknesses in EU scientific research, says report
Brussels, 19 Mar 2003 Analysing the number and variety of scientific publications in Europe can help pinpoint the scientific strengths and weaknesses of individual countries. This is one of the...
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Philippe Busquin Commissaire européen chargé de la Recherche Le rôle de l'Union européenne dans la politique spatiale, Conférence "L'Europe de la Défense et l'Espace: convergences pour la sécurité" Ec
Ecole Royale Militaire, Bruxelles, 19 mars 2003 Monsieur le Premier Ministre, Monsieur le Haut Représentant, Messieurs les Ministres, Messieurs les Généraux, Mesdames et...
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FP6 Model contract - final versions of core contract, Annex II and Annex III, and Form A.
Brussels, 19 Mar 2003 The Model Contract Working Group The Model Contract Working Group was set up by the research DGs to work on the drafting of model contracts for the new instruments for the Sixth...
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Intervention de Javier Solana, "L'Europe de la Défense et l'Espace", École Royale Militaire de Belgique
Brussels, 19 Mar 2003 Permettez-moi tout d'abord de dire quelques mots sur la Politique de Sécurité et de Défense en général. Hier, le Conseil de l'Union européenne a pris la décision de lancer la...
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EU and Russia advance space co-operation agenda
Brussels, 19 March 2003 Today in Brussels European Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin met Mr Yuri Koptev, Director-General of Rosaviakosmos, the Russian Space Agency. They discussed current and...
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New tool available for online FP6 proposal submission
Brussels, 19 Mar 2003 For the first time, researchers wishing to participate in the EU framework programmes are now able to prepare and submit their proposals online via CORDIS. The new electronic...
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Global tensions highlight need for advanced security research at EU level
Brussels, 19 March 2003 Current global tensions and threats to security reinforce the need for genuine political commitment to a European space programme, capable of safeguarding European interests...
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EU-US agreement on Galileo interoperability 'very close', says Commission
Brussels, 19 Mar 2003 Loyola de Palacio, EU Commissioner for Energy and Transport, has said that discussions between the EU and United States on the interoperability of the Galileo and GPS satellite...
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Artemis relays first images for Envisat
Paris, 19 Mar 2003 The first satellite-relayed images from Envisat have been received via the Artemis data-relay spacecraft in geostationary orbit at ESA's data processing centre at ESRIN, near Rome...
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Today's news
Middle-class students bear burden of fee rise Students from middle-class homes could be the only ones required to pay higher tuition fees when the government allows universities to increase them to £...
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Animals used for experimental and other scientific purposes - Public deliberation (Item Approved Without Debate - Extract from Council report of the Agriculture/Fisheries Council of March 18/19)
Brussels, 18 March 2003 The Council adopted a common position on a proposal for a Directive concerning the protection of animals used for experimental and other scientific purposes (doc. 5240/03 )....
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Genetically modified food and feed * - Public deliberation (Item Approved Without Debate - Extract from Council report of the Agriculture/Fisheries Council of March 18/19)
Brussels, 18 March 2003 The Council adopted by qualified majority - the Luxembourg, Austrian and United-Kingdom delegations voting against - a Common position with a view to the adoption of...