Makeovers for the guides to essential reading
Booklists are at the heart of the academic experience. In the first of a four-part series, Harriet Swain investigates how they have changed in the new environment of a wired world and working...
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When 'dollybirds' downed dusters to take degrees
Carol Dyhouse charts the ascent of woman in higher education over the course of the past century What kind of images do most people have of student life? Over much of the past century the popular...
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'History needs a rocket up its backside' to help save the Earth
Mandy Garner meets a maverick historian who wants colleagues to stop shying away from urgent global issues such as climate change and genocide Mark Levene is a man with an acute awareness of time....
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Growing appeal of the Open road
With top-up fees about to drive up the price of a degree, the Open University is becoming the cost-conscious school-leaver's first port of call, writes John Kirkaldy The traditional image of the Open...
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TACD Situation Report: The Role Of "Science" And "Other Factors" in Food Safety
London, 18 Jan 2006 (see Resolution on 'Risk Analysis and the role of Other Factors' Doc Food-16-00 -- in French) Current Situation As consumer organizations within the EU and the US seek to...
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JAF Meeting on 15/16 February 2006, Agenda Items - Draft Terms of Reference for a Mandate of a COST Domain Committee and Draft Rules of Procedure for a COST Domain Committee (links)
Brussels, 18 Jan 2006 Draft Terms of Reference for a Mandate of a COST Domain Committee Full text of Document 2/1/05 Revision 01 Suite of documents 2/1/05 Delegations will find attached the draft "...
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Avian influenza: expectations surpassed as international community pledges US$1.9 bn in Beijing (plus links to other Rapid items)
Brussels, 18 January 2006 The international community has pledged a total amount of $1.9 billion dollars to fight avian influenza and prepare for a possible human influenza pandemic, EU Health and...
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Agenda of the Research Working Party, 18 January 2006
Brussels, 18 Jan 2006 Full text of Document 180/06 1. Specific Programme "Cooperation": ­ examination of articles, introductory part to Annex I, Annex III and Annex IV doc. 136/05 RECH 182...
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List of Topics for Open Debate at Council Meetings during the Austrian Presidency
Brussels, 18 Jan 2006 Full text of Document 5363/06 Suite of documents 5363/06 1. Attached is the list of the of topics on which the Presidency proposes to hold open debates at meetings of the...
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Today's news
Unions angered by widening university pay gap Pay talks between university lecturers and employers took a further dive today, when it emerged that vice-chancellors and principals enjoyed pay rises of...
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Exemption of transfer of small quantities or ores, source materials and special fissile materials from Euratom rules on supply (OJ link)
Brussels, 17 January 2006 Commission Regulation (Euratom) No 66/2006 of 16 January 2006 exempting the transfer of small quantities of ores, source materials and special fissile materials from the...
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Today's news
Oxford and Cambridge join elite research alliance Oxford and Cambridge have joined a global group of 10 elite universities to collaborate in research and to exchange staff and students. Launched in...
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Latest research news
Mission set for Pluto Nasa is readying to send a speedy craft out to the edges of our Solar System, to give us our first ever close-up of Pluto. The New Horizons mission, which is due to launch from...
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Lloyds TSB Scotland Foundation: research fellowships
Deadline: 03/03/2006
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Non-Clinical Research Fellowship
Deadline: 28/04/2006