Growing Gaia needs iron
Gaia's Body
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How scripture nursed the men of science
The Bible, Protestantism, and the Rise of Natural Science
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The art of death reckoning
Studies Show
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Emotion in motion
The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals - The Emotional Brain
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The poet and the engineer
The Art of Moral Protest
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Elizabeth Tate
(Photograph) - Tate Gallery: Elizabeth Tate, lecturer at Sunderland University, installs her sculpture, 'Bronze Grove', as part of a university exhibition at Bradley Nursery and Gardens, Wylam,...
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Medics to rise by 1,000
ABOUT 1,000 extra places will be created for medical students each year from 2005 - a 20 per cent increase on present levels - the government has announced. But academics are warning that quality...
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Young doctors scrap rote
THE University of Manchester medical school has come up with a radical solution to curriculum overload, writes Alison Utley. It has decided to abandon big lectures, and replace them with problem-...
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Research is bad for you
Seen on the front of a box of research application forms at an unnamed university last week was the following advice: "HEALTH WARNING: Researching can damage your health. Most vice-chancellors don't...
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Fact file
The Further Education Funding Council's figures for 1996-97 reveal that: * enrolments to council-funded further education courses increased by 16 per cent to 3.1 million * part-time numbers were up...
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Lifelong task
(Photograph) - George Mudie, a former trade union official and deputy chief whip, emerged as the new lifelong learning minister in the government's reshuffle this week. Lord Sainsbury was the...
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Print centre grant comes to college's rescue
CASH-STRAPPED Matthew Boulton College, Birmingham. is to receive a Pounds 650,000 grant from the Department for Education and Employment to establish a centre of information and high technology...
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Class of 63 in mass campus exodus
ACADEMICS are retiring in droves while student numbers are rising, it emerged this week. Latest figures from the Higher Education Statistical Agency show the number of posts falling vacant as a...
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Pounds 30m prize in subject contest
UNIVERSITIES are to compete for a share of Pounds 30 million to set up centres of teaching expertise. The Higher Education Funding Council for England is to invite bids for centres in each subject...