A magnet for high achievers
Scholarships engender a sense of pride in the institutions that create them, argues Terry Butland Scholarships have played an important role in British higher education for a long time. They...
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A little tailoring can sew up chance of success
Customising articles for specific publications improves your chances of making it into print, writes Nick Saunders. When it comes to publishing, academics inhabit a world unrecognisable to the public...
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Jobwatch: treatment options
Flexibility is the new watchword in health and social care-related disciplines, which are spreading the net wider in search of suitable candidates to fill a range of posts, reports Caroline Davis...
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Who Got that Job?
Ruth Lawton , 45 Job advertised in The THES , January 17 2003 University of Central England in Birmingham Student services Head of Careers £32,000 - £35,000 per annum Ruth Lawton has been in careers...
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Thumbs up for drama with a comic outcome
Technology is making remote teaching easier, as one theatre project demonstrates. Mark Childs explains A word of advice. If you are moving PCs from an information technology suite to a theatre studio...
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Teaching: on the front line
What is your experience of teaching? Pat Leon asks teachers how they manage Name : Dorothy Stratford Age : Fiftysomething Job : Faculty academic liaison librarian (engineering, science and...
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Today's news
Cambridge halts plan for lab to test monkey brains Faced with spiralling costs and continuing opposition from the city council and anti-vivisection groups, Cambridge University has indicated that it...
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EU and Russia sign renewed science and technology co-operation agreement
Brussels, 6 November 2003 The European Union and the Russian Federation will step up joint efforts in science and technology, by signing a new "Agreement on co-operation for Science and Technology" (...
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Draft MoU for the Implementation of a European Concerted Research Action Designated as COST Action 634 "On and Off Site Environmental Impact of Runoff and Erosion" (link)
Brussels, 06 Nov 2003 Full text of Document 280/03 Suite of documents 280/03 Attached is the text of the abovementioned Memorandum of Understanding. [...] Council Register
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COST Financial and Operational Matters (link)
Brussels, 06 Nov 2003 Full text of Document 294/03 Suite of documents 294/03 Delegations will find attached a note by the COST Office on Financial and Operational Matters in view of Item 9 of the JAF...
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Developing Synergies in COST (link)
Brussels, 06 Nov 2003 Full text of Document 293/03 Suite of documents 293/03 Delegations will find attached a note by the COST Office on Developing synergies in view of Item 4 of the JAF meeting on...
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Agenda of the Competitiveness Council of 10 November
Brussels, 06 Nov 2003 The 2539th session of the Council of the European Union (COMPETITIVENESS – INTERNAL MARKET, INDUSTRY AND RESEARCH) will take place on 10 November 2003 (10h00), in the Justus...
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The EU is hot on the cyber-criminal trail
Brussels, 06 Nov 2003 Society is rapidly becoming wired, buying and selling goods and services with the touch of a button. But cyber-space's convenience is also its Achilles heal – giving criminals...
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European companies are failing to exploit patent information, EPO report finds
Brussels, 06 Nov 2003 Most companies in Europe do not appreciate the potential value of patent information and are therefore neglecting an important source of business intelligence and innovation,...
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Astronomers protest at plans to cancel planet search mission
Brussels, 06 Nov 2003 Over 400 astronomers from across Europe and beyond have written to the European Space Agency (ESA), calling on it to reconsider cancelling the Eddington mission. Such a move...