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Australian quality agency appoints chief Australia's University Quality Agency has appointed David Woodhouse as its first chief executive. Dr Woodhouse is director of New Zealand's...
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Row could damage business school recruitment The head of Oxford's Said Business School has warned that recruitment could suffer as a result of controversy over the involvement of the prime minister’s...
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Financial Times Poor employment prospects among ethnic minorities are to be tackled with a £15 million fund to be announced as the government launches the second phase of the New Deal. Norman Borlaug...
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Norway may set up 14 new institutions Norwegian minister of education and research Trond Griske has tabled a bill to set up 14 new universities and university colleges, bringing the total to 18....
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The Guardian Hopes of a cure for Parkinson's disease by the implantation of foetal cells into the brain have been dashed after a trial of the technique, involving two US universities, found a number...
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Cambridge presses ahead with expansion plan Cambridge University is planning the biggest expansion in its 800-year history with the addition of 5,000 students, three colleges and 3,000 staff...
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Harvard names Summers president Harvard University’s next president will be Lawrence Summers, treasury secretary for the final 18 months of the Clinton administration. He will take over from Neil...
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Financial Times The London Business School and Columbia Business School in New York have formalised a partnership for executive programmes. The Institute of Management is to launch its own...
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NUS targets marginal seats The National Union of Students is encouraging students to help swing marginal seats in the general election by targeting a small number of constituencies where the...
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Research Exchanges scheme
Deadline: 30/04/2001
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UK Bioscience Business Plan Competition
Deadline: 30/03/2001
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Plant Adaptation: grants for short visits
Deadline: 01/05/2001
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Innovations Fund
Deadline: 15/05/2001
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Cutting edge: J-M Bonnet-Bidau
Can a star change its colour in the blink of an eye? The theory of stellar evolution says no, but Sirius has yet to be explained. Do stars always stay the same colour? Astronomers know this is not...