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Scientists hunger strike and the Pope intervenes ahead of a poll on assisted reproduction

Industry welcomes the scientific agenda for a new institute that has angered universities

Up to 150 redundancies after talks to save Silsoe Research Institute fail

A looming change to how academic jobs are awarded has sparked fury among researchers

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Stringent guidelines for implementing a controversial law met with shock by scientists

Science and education minister changes her mind on teaching evolutionary theory

Scientists, teachers shocked by plan to cut evolutionary teaching in secondary school

Top-level European universities adopt a common quality assurance mark

Courtesy of Paola AgazziTrooping through streets alongside empty hearses, Italian postdoctoral researchers mark what they consider the death of their role in the country's universities. Others cover themselves under sheets as a symbol of their ghostly presence in the country's higher education world. They are joined by associate and ordinary professors who display unmistakable protest signs: "Good-bye, Moratti."Letizia Brichetto Arnaboldi Moratti, Italian Minister of Education, University and Sc

A new law means all science output will be evaluated, with the aim of focusing funds

Professors protest funding cuts in the 2004 budget

Strict rules will mean a disaster for Italian research, say scientists

Sixty-three science academies present a united front ahead of cloning committee meeting