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Higher education for women is expected to be a priority in Tajikistan's forthcoming budget. The budget will include measures to attract young women from the mountainous areas of the country to...
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Don's diary: tour d'emploi
Autumn 2000 The research proposal I submitted to a large programme on transport has failed in the second round. This is a blow to my plans for developing research directions on the culture of cycle...
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British Library staff to strike over pay
Staff at the British Library will go on strike next week in protest at a 4 per cent pay offer. The Public and Commercial Services union will lead its 979 British Library members out on strike on...
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Assembly of Beagle 2 Mars probe starts
Work has begun assembling the Beagle 2 Mars lander, which will hunt for life on the red planet. It is being constructed in a contamination-free room at the Open University and will be launched in...
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Call for genetics patent rules to be applied
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics has called for patent offices worldwide to work to ensure rules are more rigorously applied in applications involving genetic sequences. A discussion paper, The...
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Take some time out to watch the pigs
Forget canoeing down the Amazon, because pig watching could be the next draw for the eco-tourist. Researchers from Germany claim that grazing pigs attract spectators and benefit the environment. They...
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Applicants opt for old over new
Students are spurning new universities in favour of old, according to the latest applications data. Some institutions saw applications fall by 10 per cent or more by the June 30 deadline. Of these,...
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Majority of refs face player abuse
While football supporters across the country look forward to the start of the new season, it seems many of the men in black will be viewing the prospect with trepidation. Researchers have found that...
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Students favour more tax to end fees and bring back grants
Students would be willing to pay more income tax if it meant an end to tuition fees and the return of maintenance grants, according to a survey. The Virgin Student Insight Poll found that 58 per cent...
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Rise in sub-degree places
Half of the extra students expected next year will be recruited to sub-degree taster courses based on television programmes, writes Alison Goddard. The courses, which are sub-degree and part-time for...
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Lords look for revamp of animal research
A shake-up in the way animal research is regulated has been recommended by a House of Lords report. The select committee report on animals in scientific procedures, published on Wednesday after a...
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Killer leapfrogs globe
The French love of frogs' legs is helping to spread a killer disease that threatens to wipe out amphibians around the world, according to new research. The international trade in frogs has been...
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AoC hits out at post-16 strategy
College leaders have found gaping holes in the government's new strategy for post-16 learning. The Association of Colleges is particularly worried by the lack of discussion about what colleges are...
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Rare sheep project expands as foot-and-mouth fears linger
Scientists are to continue with a project to save rare sheep from foot-and-mouth disease because they feel the government has not acted to remove the threat of a repeat of the epidemic, writes Steve...
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Appealing UK nets £1.5bn
British universities recruited a record 141,000 overseas students this year, which added about £1.5 billion in tuition fees to their coffers. Total numbers were up by nearly 17,000, or 12 per cent,...