In brief 2
By all means broaden the non-executive director recruitment pool to include academics (Why I, THES , July 26), but it is unlikely they will prove less fallible than their "vocational" peers. The...
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In brief 3
The European Union has not made a blanket commitment towards the promotion of privately funded higher education under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (Letters, THES , July 26). It has "...
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Back off from boycott 1
Victims of the terrorist attack on the Hebrew University of Jerusalem included Jews, Arabs and foreign students ("Bomb shakes Hebrew University", THES , August 2). This reinforces the view that...
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Back off from boycott 2
By the time the academic boycott of South African archaeologists began in 1985, archaeologists working inside South Africa had published radiocarbon dates that demonstrated that black South Africans...
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Proposal for new COST action on meta-sensing in knowledge management
Brussels, 7 August 2002 Full text of Document 257/02 Note. Proposal for a new COST Action entitled "Developing Meta-Sensing Capabilities for Technological Opportunities and Stakes in a Knowledge...
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Discussion open on European research council
Brussels, 07 August 2002 The decision by the Danish Presidency to raise the issue of a possible European research council at an event in October has encouraged discussion on the possible role of the...
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EU funds project enabling coordination of unmanned aerial vehicles
Brussels, 07 August 2002 A 2.94 million euro EU project is developing the technology to allow the coordination and control of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles at the same time. Researchers from...
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Prior information of call for tenders for CORDIS project
Brussels, 07 August 2002 The European Commission's Enterprise DG has published a prior information notice, modifying a previous notice, of a call for tenders for service contracts relating to CORDIS...
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Fusion energy summer school
Brussels, 07 August 2002 A summer school on plasma and fusion energy physics, organised by the Trilateral Euregio Cluster (TEC) will take place in Brussels from 1 to 12 September 2003. Most lectures...
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Spain hosts biggest Internet user event in the world
Brussels, 07 August 2002 The sixth 'Campus Party' event, taking place in Valencia, Spain, from 5 to 11 August will bring together the largest number of Internet users in the world, drawn largely from...
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ESA to highlight importance of space technology at sustainable development summit
Brussels, 07 August 2002 The European space agency (ESA) will be underlining the importance of space technology for environmental protection at the World summit on sustainable development, to be held...
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Update: 12:30
Officials play down £30 weekly student grants Education Department officials were today playing down reports that students whose parents have annual incomes of under £30,000 are to be given grants...
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Today's papers
Student grants return to stem campus anger Student grants worth about £30 a week are to be introduced for about 500,000 undergraduates, the government will announce this autumn. A long-awaited review...
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Moon mapping device ready for take-off
Brussels, 06 August 2002 An instrument designed to map the surface of the moon, developed by an international team of scientists, was delivered to the European space agency (ESA) on 6 August, ready...
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New department at French Academy of science to address science-society gap
Brussels, 06 August 2002 The French Academy of science has created a Scientific information and communication department to help bridge the gap between science and society. The department was created...