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DTI announces £6m for building bridges with world class US universities
London, 3 November 2005 Lord Sainsbury, Science and Innovation Minister, today announced the four successful projects that have been chosen to build science and innovation bridges with world-class...
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New Investigators' Competition
Deadline: 01/02/2006
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Small Research Grants
Deadline: 15/01/2006
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Research Career Development Fellowship in Clinical Tropical Medicine
Deadline: 08/03/2006
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Laurie Taylor Column
" Fears grow that universities will soon sell off their art collections " - The Times Higher, October 28 From: The Vice-Chancellor Subject: Artworks It was recently agreed at a meeting attended by...
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Alan Ryan
The problem with league tables is that they ignore the fact that institutions are of different sizes and have different strengths I was brought up to believe that it is wicked to shoot sitting ducks...
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Leader: When too much cash is a problem
March 2003 marked a nadir in the relations between the research councils and their academic communities. For the first time in living memory, MPs openly accused one of the research councils of...
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Leader: Thrifty City's fine line
Speech may be free but silence can be costly. Academics who book seminar rooms and lecture halls at City University now incur fines for their department if they fail to use them. Along with the fines...
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Raise up the rank outsiders 1
Some 32 per cent (12) of Australia's universities appear among the world's top 100 (World University Rankings, October 28) compared with 10 per cent (13) of the UK's. This denotes Australia's unique...
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Raise up the rank outsiders 2
Why isn't Deakin University, Australia, in the top list? La Trobe University and RMIT University can't even beat Deakin. Deakin has a total of 70,000 students, very much diversified, and is one of...
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Raise up the rank outsiders 3
There must be something wrong with the ranking for Beijing University, China, in your top 100 technology universities. Beijing is ranked 10th. Are you kidding me? Beijing University doesn't have an...
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No liberty for liberals
Daphne Patai's article lamenting the political censorship in universities was a timely warning to the UK not to follow the path already "chosen" by our US colleagues (Opinion, October 28). Last year...
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Do your dues pay?
Jill Jones' claim that derisory pay offers suggest the absence of a cosy relationship between unions and employers does not stand up (Letters, October 28). It could equally be argued that poor pay...
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Debate's design flaw
Nobody involved in architectural education would deny there is some currency in the stereotype portrayed by Alison Wolf (Opinion, October 28) that "architecture schools are almost entirely occupied...