Part-time route to full potential
Birkbeck College is committed to providing primarily part-time undergraduate study and offering a range of part-time postgraduate study while being a leading research institution. About 99 per cent...
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Runny nose? Please leave now
Few Britons would bat an eye if a lecturer sneezed, but Japanese would be shocked. Humphrey Evans says we must be more aware of the cultures of foreign students I have resolved never to blow my nose...
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Department audit
John J. Joughin, head of department, gives the lowdown on humanities at the University of Central Lancashire * Total number of academic staff: 51 * Number of permanent academic staff: 42 * Number of...
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Who's got the cash?
Scots language researchers at Glasgow University have won more than £300,000 from the Arts and Humanities Research Board to develop a major electronic archive. The Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech...
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Oxford Brookes offers home-working to staff
Oxford Brookes University is to offer all staff the chance to apply to work from home as part of a work-life balance project that puts it ahead of much of the sector. The project - Jdescribed as an...
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Today's news
Mother of four with strong views Ruth Kelly's appointment as Education Secretary has raised the number of women in Cabinet to six - a record. Ms Kelly, 36, has uncompromising views. A strong opponent...
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Ombudsman calls on Commission to examine possible breaches of security rules in handling of radioactive material
Strasbourg, 16 December 2004 The European Ombudsman, P. Nikiforos Diamandouros, has called on the European Commission to carry out a proper and thorough examination of possible breaches of security...
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Potocnik calls on Technology Platforms to commit to openness
Brussels, 16 Dec 2004 Science and Research Commissioner Janez Potocnik called on the participants of Technology Platforms to sign up to a voluntary code of practice on openness and transparency on 15...
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Technology Platform for Global Animal Health launched today
Brussels, 16 December 2004 A Technology Platform on “Global Animal Health” was announced today by the European Commission. The technology platform, launched today at a conference on animal diseases...
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Breakthrough in environmental monitoring from space
Brussels, 16 December 2004 Scientists working at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission have developed a new way to interpret data from satellites observing the earth. The satellites...
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Science offers hope in the battle against hospital 'superbug'
Brussels, 16 Dec 2004 Leading international scientists gathered in London, UK, on 15 December to examine how research and development can be translated into clinical solutions in the fight against...
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DFG announces ten prize winners
Brussels, 16 Dec 2004 The 2005 winners of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz prize, the most prestigious research prize in Germany, have been announced by the German Research Foundation's (DFG) Grants...
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MEPs call for science-based EU drugs policy
Brussels, 16 Dec 2004 The European Parliament has narrowly adopted a recommendation to the Council calling for the development of a common EU strategy to tackle drug problems, and urging Member...
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Busquin to head Parliament's scientific assessment panel
Brussels, 16 Dec 2004 Former EU Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin has been elected as Chairman of the European Parliament's Scientific and Technology Options Assessment (STOA) panel. Many of the...
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Conference on ethics committees: facing the future together
Brussels, 16 Dec 2004 The European Commission is organising a conference entitled 'Research ethics committees in Europe: facing the future together', to be held in Brussels, Belgium, on and 28...