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You report an academic conduct officer stating that some lecturers can't be "arsed" to take plagiarism seriously. But do lecturers who try to deal with it always get the support they need? A draft...
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Race case findings
Roger Brown claims (Letters, June 23) that in your report of a successful race discrimination case against Brunel University ("Brunel pays out to settle race row", June 16) Southampton Solent "was...
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Just plane wrong
Could I point out that the aircraft featured on your front cover is an Avro Lincoln, a type that entered service just after the war and that took no part in the bombing of Germany. Presumably the...
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Rhyme must have reason
It may offer insight into what it's like to be a piece of cheese, but a PhD in poetry does not indicate talent. Is it good for anything? asks Don Paterson Can poetry be taught, and is university the...
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Soft sell bears
From teddy bears to tea caddies, graduation gifts are money-spinners. Olga Wojtas goes shopping It is not only lecturers, students and vice-chancellors who were anxiously hoping that graduations...
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A quiet tendency to spread the word
The relationship between politics and religion will take centre stage at this year's Anglo-American Conference of Historians, University of London, July 5 to 7 The global community of evangelical...
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How India learnt not to hate the bomb
The relationship between politics and religion will take centre stage at this year's Anglo-American Conference of Historians, University of London, July 5 to 7 Religion and politics came together...
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Still flogging the idea that you can give a good beating?
Our monthly guide to some of the conferences taking place around the world In the past 200 years not everyone's attitude to domestic violence has evolved, discovers Harriet Swain What are your views...
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Conference watch
Our monthly guide to some of the conferences taking place around the world JULY * Scientists from a range of specialisms including biology, communications theory and linguistics will meet in Salzburg...
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Profile
Michael North talks to the dub poet whose Jamaican voice became a weapon in the fight for black rights in Britain Linton Kwesi Johnson may look a little incongruous in the lush parkland campus of...
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Orphan Medicines Regulation for rare diseases on the road to success, but better patient access to approved orphan medicines and additional economic incentives in most Member States needed
Brussels, 28 Jun 2006 Today, the European Commission published its final evaluation (1) - following comments received from stakeholders (2) - on five years of the EU's Orphan Medicines Regulation (EC...
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Corrigendum to the Outcome of the First Reading on the Proposed Decision Concerning the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for Reseach (2007-2013) (link)
Brussels, 28 Jun 2006 Full text of Document 10374/06 Corrigendum 01 Suite of documents 10374/06 Subject: Proposal for a Decision of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the Seventh...
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EP Briefing 3-6 July 2006: More research and innovation in Europe (Own-initiative)
Strasbourg, 28 Jun 2006 In an own-initiative report, MEPs point out that Europe is still lagging behind the USA and Japan on growth, research and productivity. They propose ways to change this,...
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Today's news
Students allowed to set their own exam A lecturer who wants to engender trust and respect in his students has let them set their own final-year exam. They were also allowed to take notes into the...
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Carnegie/Caledonian Scholarships
Deadline: 15/03/2007