Pounds 2.5m offered for PFI 'pathfinders'
THE Higher Education Funding Council for England has made Pounds 2.5 million available to evaluate four new university Private Finance Initiative projects. HEFCE will provide up to half the cost of...
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British Library annouces PFI project for bibliographic system
The British Library has announced a PFI project to design, implement and operate its bibliographic system. Axis Resources has won the contract which, the library says, will be the first step towards...
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Said in the sidings
DONS at Oxford university are expected to vote at the end of this term on a new business school site, within days of the deadline set by benefactor Wafic Said. The favoured spot for the Pounds 40...
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French students set to strike
France's students have warned of trouble for the next government if it fails to implement university reforms. Pouria Amirshahi, re-elected president of the largest union, the pro-socialist UNEF-ID...
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Don's Diary
Monday Land in Punta Arenas, the southernmost city of Chile. This city represents the penultimate leg of my long journey to the Falklands. Having already had some meetings with British officials in...
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First Impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a philosopher with an interest in robots: "Suppose evil scientists removed...
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Grand story of delusions
The History of Mental Symptoms
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Biology to sway the Vatican?
A Separate Creation - With Pleasure - Queer Science
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Collecting's bastard sister
The Discovery of the Past
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Desert-island archaeology
The Oxford Companion to Archaeology
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Teenagers facing tradition
Telling It Like It Is
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Primates who think or ape?
Reaching into Thought
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Entraining with Emu
The Tainted Source
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Too much eclectic hand-waving
The Cerebral Code
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Think Darwin
How the Brain Thinks