Today's news
HIV test for all medics New doctors and nurses will have to undergo HIV tests under proposed Department of Health plans. It is estimated that 700 HIV-positive nurses may have been recruited to work...
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Institute of Directors calls for German school model Government should abandon its higher education participation target and focus on expanding vocational education, employers have said. Ruth Lea,...
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UK research shows herbicide-resistant genes living in the human gut after a meal of GM food
Brussels, 18 July 2002 New research carried out by the University of Newcastle in the UK has shown that genetically modified (GM) genes can find their way into human gut bacteria, the first time that...
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Benchmarking for eEurope+ - prior information on call for tenders
Brussels, 18 July 2002 The European Commission has given prior information of a call for tenders for the provision of services to the Phare candidate countries for eEurope+ 2003 data collection,...
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Spin out company founder says thank you to EU and ESA
Brussels, 18 July 2002 At the launch of a new space incubator network, ESINET, in Brussels on 17 July, Tony Anson from Brunel University in the UK outlined how funding from the EU, the European space...
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Women & Science - Statistics and Indicators (link to new webpage)
Brussels, 18 July 2002 Women & Science - Statistics and Indicators DG Research http://europa.eu.int/comm/dgs/research/ index_en.html
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Marine algae a weapon against global warning?
Brussels, 18 July 2002 "Parforce" an EU-funded research project has discovered a new link between marine algae and climate change. Researchers working on the project found out that iodine vapours,...
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Applications are now open for IFS grants
Brussels, 18 July 2002 The Swedish-based International Foundation for Science (IFS) has issued a call for research grant applications from young scientists in developing countries. Access to research...
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EU funds help fight floods in Venice
Brussels, 18 July 2002 A team of British and Italian scientists are working on a project addressing problems with flooding in Venice due to both the city sinking and the sea level rising. Funded by...
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Beware Hodge's Trojan horse
A college of external examiners will give Whitehall the control it yearns for, says Geoffrey Alderman. The letter that Stephen Marston (then director for institutions at the Higher Education Funding...
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Fees will set us free
A system of fees and bursaries will lead to greater autonomy and efficiency, says Bruce Charlton Universities are in a mess. And the blame lies firmly at the door of government policy, which has...
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Exclusive: £1.25bn equals 'no excuses'
Universities have no excuse for getting into financial difficulties over research after this week's spending review, science and innovation minister Lord Sainsbury has said. Lord Sainsbury told The...
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Today's papers
Oxford grade inflation laid bare Nearly nine out of ten Oxford students are being awarded good degrees and the proportion of firsts has doubled over the past two decades. This summer's results show...
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Cambridge spin-off wins top UK prize
Cambridge Display Technology, a firm spun off from Cambridge University's Cavendish Laboratory, has won the UK's biggest engineering prize. The £50,000 Royal Academy of Engineering MacRobert Award...
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Morris plan for schools to boost participation
Education secretary Estelle Morris this week unveiled how school improvements will help to reach the government's target of 50 per cent of young people experiencing higher education by 2010. Ms...