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University data plan irks private schools Pupils applying for places at university could have their school's exam performance taken into account by admissions tutors under plans being considered by...
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Communication in Life Sciences Award
Deadline: 30/06/2007
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Award for Young European Investigators
Deadline: 30/06/2006
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Exchange grants
Deadline: 01/06/2007
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Short visits
Deadline: 01/06/2007
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Today's news
Disabled Aids virus could provide cure for cystic fibrosis A modified version of the virus that causes Aids could become the basis of a prenatal gene therapy for cystic fibrosis, new research has...
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Hollow man, resonant gift
Mellon
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from an author who has an asteroid named after him: "For thousands of years, human beings have contemplated...
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The classics boiled down to essential elements
The Twenty Greatest Philosophy Books
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Transgressors with their amps turned up to 11
Extreme Metal
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Spirits reborn as martyrs and money-spinners
Mother Leakey and the Bishop
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The relentless rise of coffee-table cults
Household Gods
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Girls and families pay for one-child policy
China's Longest Campaign
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Laurie Taylor Column
"Clerical errors" at Sheffield University led to three of a department's staff being listed wrongly on its website as having a PhD - The Times Higher , March 9. From: the Vice-Chancellor and Chief...
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Leader: Open plan or open warfare?
In an era when the chief executive of British Airways goes into the office and looks for somewhere to sit - having no office or desk to call his own - academics have held out longer than most for the...