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Neighbourhood renewal cash unveiled A £21.8 million programme to help people transform deprived neighbourhoods was unveiled by the the Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions today...
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From today's UK papers
British pupils top world class An international study has put the UK's 15-year-olds near the top of the world league table for maths, reading literacy and science results for the first time, but...
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Early Career Project Grants
Deadline: 31/01/2002
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The Phoenix Fund
Deadline: 25/02/2002
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Parenting Research Initiative
Deadline: 04/01/2002
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Travel Fellowships
Deadline: 28/02/2002
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Young Investigators Awards
Deadline: 30/03/2002
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Latest news
Think-tank attacks 'regressive' funding policies Students should pay higher tuition fees and interest on their loans, according to the country’s leading Blairite think-tank. The Institute for Public...
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From today's UK papers
Doctor who warned on MMR forced out Andrew Wakefield, the specialist who first raised concerns about links between the MMR vaccine and bowel disease and autism, has been forced out of his job at the...
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Not past his sell-by date
Recently retired academic Roy Porter tells Christopher Wood why we - and his bank manager - can look forward to more books. When writing about the historian Roy Porter, the convention is to refer to...
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Supertext: The textbook that changed my life
The textbook that changed my life is older than I am. In one way or another, it has always been with me. It follows me around. More to the point, I suppose, I follow it. In fact I inherited it - it...
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Keep this book to yourself
Peter Atkins is quietly impressed by an insider's guide to writing textbooks I cannot recommend any aspiring textbook author to buy this book: it is so good. Writing Successful Textbooks is a step-by...
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APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS Research Councils Science and innovation minister, Lord Sainsbury, announced appointments to the councils as follows: Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research...
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Next week
News The importance of image. Features One hundred years of Nobel: we look back at a century of Nobel prizes and analyse what it takes to become a laureate. Books Brendan O'Leary admires Amnesty...
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Clinical chairs staying empty
More than one in seven clinical chairs is empty, the Council of Heads of Medical Schools' first comprehensive survey of medical school vacancies has shown. Michael Powell, executive secretary of the...