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Deadline: 01/07/2002
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Deadline: 09/08/2002
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Research and Development Grants
Deadline: 30/08/2002
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ESA clears UK mission to seek distant planets
A mission to search for planets outside the solar system and to discover how distant stars work has won the go-ahead from the European Space Agency. The Eddington mission, named after the British...
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Fears over funding of foundation degrees
Foundation degree course leaders have challenged the Higher Education Funding Council for England over levels of support for the programmes. Many worry that Hefce has restricted the number of funded...
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Next week
News Door policy: which universities are easier to get into now than five years ago? Check out our survey of entry standard fluctuations Features From football to the Falklands: Klaus Dodds examines...
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Growth in UK fees income
Income from tuition fees in UK higher education institutions rose by more than a quarter between 1996-97 and last year. Income from all fees, including those paid by home, European Union and overseas...
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Tissue-engineering technique wins prize
A tissue-engineering technique that could lead to the mass production of artificially grown organs has won a top medical innovation award. Scientists at University College London have developed a...
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Today's news
Strain of AS level blamed for fall in maths Applications for university courses in maths and computing have slumped, while more students want to study history and medicine, official figures from the...
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Mars Express has the sophisticated science to find the water ice on Mars
Paris, 30 May 2002 "The presence of such a large amount of water ice under Mars's surface is very surprising. Especially so close to the surface!" says Gerhard Schwehm, Head of the Planetary Missions...
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Satellite mapping tools prove invaluable to Médecins Sans Frontières
Paris, 30 May 2002 The Brussels section of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the aid organisation active in more than 80 countries, is at the forefront of international aid groups using satellite...
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Warburg Institute Library awarded $1m
The Warburg Institute Library, part of London University's School of Advanced Study, has received the first $1 million (£684,000) award from the new Dan David Prize. The library was recognised for...
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Collaboration enables online experiments
Students are carrying out experiments using an expensive piece of chemical engineering equipment via the web, thanks to collaboration between scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
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Leicester fuels fever with World Cup website
Soccer experts at Leicester University have compiled a web resource on the World Cup that provides facts and figures on almost every aspect of the tournament. Researchers at the Sir Norman Chester...
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Correction
Sussex University has asked us to point out that its strategic review, currently under way, is not focused on cutting jobs and that there is no target number for job losses, contrary to a report in...