Earth Observation Centres of Excellence (Round 3)
Deadline: 14/12/2001
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Food-Web Modelling for Ecological Assessment of Terrestrial Pollution
Deadline: 15/11/2001
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Research on Vaccinating Healthcare Workers against Influenza
Deadline: 26/10/2001
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EU call for proposals
Deadline: 26/10/2001
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Latest international news
Kidnapped Colombian minister found dead The body of Consuelo Araújo, the former Colombian culture minister who was kidnapped by the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces' leftist guerrilla group (Farc...
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From today's UK papers
The Independent Some 23 years after her father began his studies at Oxford University, Chelsea Clinton arrived at in Oxford yesteday. Bones from thousands of children who died between 1954 and 1970...
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Latest UK news
Scots promise £18,000-plus to new teachers Scotland’s education minister Jack McConnell was today launching the second phase of Scotland’s teacher recruitment drive at Strathclyde University’s...
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Lib Dems to focus on funding
Graduate taxation and corporate endowment will be considered in a review of university funding announced by the Liberal Democrats in Bournemouth this week. Education spokesman Phil Willis told The...
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Letter(2):Real quality versus self-interest
In putting the Russell Group's views on the future of quality assurance on the front page, The THES is giving the group a weight it does not deserve. The group is already represented on the task...
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Letter(3):Real quality versus self-interest
Confidentiality agreements prevent my naming names, but your article on the Russell Group's attempt to see off QAA subject review brings to mind the remarks of an eminent vice-chancellor of a very...
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'This is retaliation, not justice'
America needs to understand how the rest of the world sees it, says Tom Palaima . At times of international crisis, we Americans really need to know who we are, and how what we say and do translates...
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Why I... believe in rewarding brilliance
Imagine the Queen, summoning her barge, sailing down the Thames to the Tower, inspecting the crown jewels and saying to the warden: "I don't like them, throw them in the river." Imagine the vice-...
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Streamline inspection
The Russell Group supports targeted quality assurance, says its chairman Colin Lucas . A few days before last week's lead article concerning the Quality Assurance Agency appeared in The THES, I had...
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Councils fear shortage of postgraduates
Research councils want more government funds to attract postgraduate students from other European Union countries amid growing evidence of a domestic recruitment slump. The research councils and...
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Warning over risk of on-job training
The number of graduates gaining teaching qualifications by working in schools instead of attending university courses is to be doubled under government plans announced this week. But academics fear...