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Trainee teachers to have loans paid off About 35,000 graduates will have their loans paid off in a three-year pilot scheme to attract teachers for the shortage subjects of maths, science and modern...
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Latest research news
Obesity linked to tots’ TV The first research into television and pre-school obesity has linked excess weight to a growing practice of giving toddlers their own bedroom TVs. The study by Columbia...
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Career Awards for Research in Clinical Tropical Medicine
Deadline: 01/09/2003
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Travel Awards
Deadline: 30/07/2002
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Social Science: Responsive Programme
Deadline: 18/07/2002
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Research Grants
Deadline: 01/07/2002
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Promotion of foods to children
Deadline: 09/08/2002
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Research and Development Grants
Deadline: 30/08/2002
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ESA clears UK mission to seek distant planets
A mission to search for planets outside the solar system and to discover how distant stars work has won the go-ahead from the European Space Agency. The Eddington mission, named after the British...
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Fears over funding of foundation degrees
Foundation degree course leaders have challenged the Higher Education Funding Council for England over levels of support for the programmes. Many worry that Hefce has restricted the number of funded...
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Next week
News Door policy: which universities are easier to get into now than five years ago? Check out our survey of entry standard fluctuations Features From football to the Falklands: Klaus Dodds examines...
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Growth in UK fees income
Income from tuition fees in UK higher education institutions rose by more than a quarter between 1996-97 and last year. Income from all fees, including those paid by home, European Union and overseas...
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Tissue-engineering technique wins prize
A tissue-engineering technique that could lead to the mass production of artificially grown organs has won a top medical innovation award. Scientists at University College London have developed a...
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Today's news
Strain of AS level blamed for fall in maths Applications for university courses in maths and computing have slumped, while more students want to study history and medicine, official figures from the...
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Mars Express has the sophisticated science to find the water ice on Mars
Paris, 30 May 2002 "The presence of such a large amount of water ice under Mars's surface is very surprising. Especially so close to the surface!" says Gerhard Schwehm, Head of the Planetary Missions...