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The Pterosaurs from Deep Time - Unearthing the Dragon
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a family memoir of three generations of women during a period of great social and political upheaval...
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Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowships
Deadline: 10/01/2007
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Research Grants & Post-Doctoral Fellowships
Deadline: 31/01/2007
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Facility Development Project Grant Scheme
Deadline: 07/12/2006
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Call for Research Proposals Supported by the Bioprocessing Research Industry Club
Deadline: 08/12/2006
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Non-clinical Career Development Fellowship
Deadline: 05/03/2007
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Treasury fuels fears of cuts to medicine
Gordon Brown's plans for a single unified fund for UK health research are set to be ditched months after they were announced, fuelling widespread anxiety about the Treasury's intervention in science...
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Research for sale: $5.95
Shocked academics are warned to protect intellectual property as their work is sold online. Tony Tysome reports. Academics have been warned to protect their intellectual property rights after it...
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'I want to see education stay at the very heart of what we do'
Martin Davidson, just appointed director-general of the British Council, has enjoyed a rapid rise to the top Martin Davidson has promoted British culture and the English language in half of the world...
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On the move...
The Higher Education Academy has appointed to its team of senior associates: Rob Cuthbert , deputy vice-chancellor of the University of the West of England, who will work with higher education...
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Morale boost bid backfires
Sheffield Hallam's plan to improve relations in its law department has had the opposite effect. Phil Baty reports Sheffield Hallam University has taken the unusual step of bringing in an external...
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Dons warily vote to reform
Oxford dons queued in their hundreds in the rain this week to vote on one of the biggest changes in the university's 900-year history. In a packed Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford's Congregation - its...
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Brilliance of academe celebrated
This week's Times Higher Awards were hailed by government and university leaders as a valuable celebration of the very best higher education has to offer. Tributes to the winners and nominees were...