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From today's UK papers
FINANCIAL TIMES Every college and university in Wales is to appoint an academic as "entrepreneurship champion" as part of a £50m four-year project to remedy the shortage of business start-ups. The...
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Latest UK news
Call to combat animal rights extremists Scientists have urged the home secretary to strengthen proposed laws to combat animal rights extremists. The Research Defence Society said ...
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Health applications of digital television
Deadline: 06/03/2001
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Biomedical Fellowships: Australia, India, New Zealand or South Africa
Deadline: 27/04/2001
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Large-Scale Facility Programme for Arctic Environmental Research
Deadline: 10/02/2001
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TV & radio guide - Monday
Start the Week (9.00 am R4). Slovenian sociologist Slavoj Zizek is among Paxman's guests. » Composer of the Week (9.00 am R3 and rest of week) is Monteverdi. The Real Captain Bligh (11.00 am R4). The...
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TV & radio guide - Weekend
SATURDAY January » Breaking the Seal : Domesday (9.30 am BBC2). The Open University begins a re-run of its series on archives, first broadcast last year, with the Domesday Book. Verdi Day (from 9.00...
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Union fury at 'shameless' v-c pay rises
Vice-chancellors have accepted pay rises of more than double the increases they are offering their staff. University heads got an average rise of 6.3 per cent in 1999-2000, about twice the rate of...
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Next week
NEWS What private money means for universities FEATURES The UK turns a blind eye to malnutrition among refugee children RESEARCH Gauging the risks to soldiers from depleted uranium weapons TEACHING A...
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Local innovation wins £54m
Research, innovation and training in manufacturing will receive a £54 million boost in the coming year through a new regional innovation fund, Stephen Byers, the trade and industry secretary,...
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Edinburgh prepares to cut biomedical staff
Edinburgh University biomedical staff are among the first to be targeted in a university-wide restructuring. Biomedical and clinical laboratory sciences will phase out two honours anatomy courses,...
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Academics scale back industrial action
Industrial action at the University of Northumbria was expected to be scaled down this week as managers ruled out compulsory redundancies. Members of lecturers' union Natfhe had been boycotting...
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Russian founders as Ustinov Institute folds
The University of Durham is to scrap its Russian degree plus Russian and Central/East European studies as its Russian department, the Ustinov Institute, is merged into the School of Modern European...
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MSPs want payment threshold to increase
The Scottish Parliament's enterprise and lifelong learning committee has questioned the Scottish Executive's proposed £10,000 earnings threshold for graduate endowment payments. In its first report...