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Nursing acceptances increase 18 per cent There will be many more student nurses this autumn after an 18 per cent rise in people accepting places compared with last year, according to figures from the...
Nursing acceptances increase 18 per cent There will be many more student nurses this autumn after an 18 per cent rise in people accepting places compared with last year, according to figures from the...
It is neither the scientists nor engineers in our universities that are "patently poor at capitalising on ideas" (THES, June 23) but the people who represent them. University researchers and teaching...
Doctors' failure to recognise that her mother was suffering from CJD alerted Judith Okely to the medical profession's inherent ageism. The crisis over mad cow disease has shown how scientific...
Michael Brown, pro vice-chancellor of De Montfort University, has been appointed vice-chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University. Peter Gilroy, of Manchester Metropolitan University, will be...
John Davies lists programmes worth catching this week (times pm unless stated). Pick of the week The first of a new C4 archaeology series, Secrets of the Dead (Tuesday 9.00) has an interesting story...
Police officers and archaeologists will be classmates on a new postgraduate course at Bourne- mouth University. The school of conservation sciences is launching a course in forensic archaeology to...
Building Jerusalem
DEBATE ON EUROPE A debate on "Making the European Union Work" led by Helmut Schmidt, Valery Giscard d'Estaing and Edward Heath, and chaired by John Ashworth will be held at the London School of...
Great Stone Circles - Astronomy in Prehistoric Britain and Ireland
Ron Johnston on Emrys Jones's A Social Geography of Belfast . While reading for my undergraduate dissertation on a railway town I came across Howard Bracey's Social Provision in Rural Wiltshire,...
Each week this section lists funds available for academic researchers. Items for inclusion should be submitted to research@thes.co.uk ARA PARSEGHIAN MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION www.parseghian.org/...
Autism
LEVERHULME TRUST www.leverhulme.org.uk Research Interchange Grants Aim: to support visits with the objective of fostering a research project, or developing a field of research or a highly-specialised...
The following listing is for research degrees and jobs in Computer Science #221> . Where possible a central contact person or office contact point has been given. Where there are several contact...
A certain amount of caginess is inevitable in new vice chancellors as they accustom themselves to their role as half human and half the embodiment of a large and complex academic institution. But...