Have we learnt from the failure over BSE?
A review of government research departments concludes that fundamental reforms are needed. Natasha Loder reports. The climate for research in government departments has not been good in recent years...
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Brussels welcomes eastern scientists
Researchers in Eastern European countries hoping to join the European Union are to be allowed to take part in projects funded by the EU's Fifth Framework Programme, as part of Brussels's strategy to...
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First link with Latin America
Researchers at European universities and other institutions will be given opportunities to work with science and technology experts from China, Russia and Argentina, under cooperation agreements...
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Sources for research funding
Each week this section lists funds available for academic researchers. Items for inclusion should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk EPPLEY FOUNDATION Support for advanced scientific research The...
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Gates and MIT join forces
Microsoft is to spend $25 million turning the Massachusetts Institute of Technology into a living laboratory for the development and testing of new teaching models and educational tools. The company...
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Student gets aid to fight 'false claim' suit
An undergraduate has been granted legal aid to seek damages against Northumbria University in a claim for breach of contract and for the "negligent misstatements of facts" in the university's...
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SA sets up troubleshooter system
The South African government is to clamp down firmly on troubled universities and technikons by granting the education minister power to appoint administrators to run mismanaged institutions for up...
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The standard of written English among some of my new under-graduates is truly awful. Is there a simple way of tackling this?
Cordelia Bryan Director of the Speak Write project at Anglia Polytechnic This is a problem we come across frequently right across higher education. That is not necessarily to say the problem is...
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A proof of papal fallibility
Hitler's Pope
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Good intentions, poor credibility
Un'idea dell'Europa [An Idea of Europe]
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from an author who said goodbyes to both a city and his country: " My first impression was that the...
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The mind in its own place
The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences
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Making the fantasy fit
Subject to Biography
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Layman's guide to defining evil men
Bad Boys, Bad Men
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Fugue-itive minds and bodies
Mad Travellers