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Louise Kirk Lecturer / Senior Lecturer Course Leader - Footwear Design Job advertised in The Times Higher September 19 2003. Shoe design has been offered as a degree course at De Montfort University...
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I could not have put it better - so I won't
More foreign than home students are caught plagiarising. This may be due to language, stress and different cultural traditions, Harriet Swain finds. Cheat sites offering ready-made student essays...
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Teaching: on the front line
What is your experience of teaching? Name :Suanne Gibson Age : 31 Job : Lecturer on disability and inclusion since 2001, and director of BA education studies programme since 2003, Plymouth University...
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Lords in gap year victory
The Government has caved in to a demand from the House of Lords to waive top-up fees for all students who defer university places in 2005 to take a gap year just before the new variable fees regime...
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Teaching stars win 'Oscars'
Fifty university and college lecturers and support staff were this week awarded National Teaching Fellowships, dubbed the "Oscars" of higher education. The winners, who each receive £50,000 for...
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Kiwi allergy incidence soars
Large numbers of children are developing severe allergic reactions to kiwi fruit, scientists have found. In the largest detailed study of its kind, Southampton University researchers have revealed a...
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Today's news
Scots increase fees by £700 for the English University tuition fees for students coming to Scotland from the rest of Britain will be increased by about £700 a year from 2006. Scottish ministers were...
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'Plants for the future': a 2025 vision for European plant biotechnology
Brussels, 24 June 2004 As the world’s population will grow from 6 to 9 billion over the next 50 years, and fossil resources will diminish, the need for food, "bio-fuels" and "bio-materials" from...
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Commissaire Philippe Busquin: "Plantes pour le futur" Une vision européenne pour la biotechnologie des plantes en 2025 Conférence de presse Bruxelles, le 24 juin 2004
24/06/2004 Mesdames et Messieurs, Le Conseil européen du printemps 2003 (mars) a lancé un appel « pour que l’espace européen de la recherche et de l’innovation soit consolidé par la création de...
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Mixed progress towards gender equality in the EU
Brussels, 24 Jun 2004 Positive news that Europe is producing a growing number of female science and engineering graduates is tempered by a disproportionate take-up in industry, the latest figures...
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Researchers' mobility: EU offers new prospects, fresh opportunities
Brussels, 24 Jun 2004 European Commission to launch European Network of Mobility Centres at International conference on making Europe more attractive for researchers WHAT? INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE +...
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How Europe intends to meet increased demand for alternatives to animal testing
M.3409 - TPG GROUP / FRANCISCO PARTNERS / SMART JV - Art. 6(1)(b) - public text of decision available memory and comms products | it | us M.3348 - FORTIS / SG / SECFINEX JV - Art. 6(1)(b) - public...
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EU funds project for the advancement of animal health
Brussels, 24 Jun 2004 The European Commission is providing 12 million euro for a new project funded under the thematic priority 'Food Quality and Safety' of the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) that...
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Spain to use 'independent' research to review its GM crop stance
Brussels, 24 Jun 2004 The Spanish Environment Minister, Cristina Narbona, has pledged to seek the advice of independent researchers before deciding whether or not the country should continue its...
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Protesters destroy Finland's study on GM trees
Brussels, 24 Jun 2004 Finland's only field study on genetically modified (GM) trees in Punkaharju in the eastern part of the country has been attacked and destroyed. The 400 GM birch trees were...