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Cambridge resubmits plans for animal lab Cambridge University has resubmitted plans for a pioneering neuroscience research laboratory despite fears that it will become a target for animal rights...
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I've got no energy, doctor
The public may fear nuclear power, but this week energy expert Ian Fells will demand new power stations in Britain. Kam Patel reports on the scientists ridiculing Labour's energy policy On the train...
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Grants to help Scots bring ideas to market
Scottish Enterprise is investing Pounds 750,000 in a fellowship scheme to help young academics commercialise their research. The Royal Society of Edinburgh this session awarded four enterprise...
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How Microsoft backs higher education in the United States
Industry giants put millions of pounds into university research, but what do they expect in return? The THES spotlights three of the big spenders Microsoft Student Scholarship Programme for...
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Philippe Busquin: Science et télévision: pour une approche européenne, Seconde journée Science et Télévision: "La République et ses savants" Cite des Sciences et de l'Industrie - Paris 13 décembre 200
Cite des Sciences et de l'Industrie - Paris 13 décembre 2002 Madame la Ministre Mesdames et Messieurs Je vous remercie de m'avoir convié à cette deuxième édition des journées Science et Télévision J'...
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Why the academics weighed in with the ad men to confront a growing nutritional concern
Kellogg's two-week challenge diet might sound like a dubious marketing scam for breakfast cereals, but it is backedby some leading nutritionists, writes Olga Wojtas The cabbage soup diet. The steak...
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Exposed: PR's political ambition
STIRLING University researchers are mapping the scope and scale of the political public relations industries and the professional groups who staff them. The work, led by Philip Schlesinger of...
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A fanfare of strumpets for a magical mystery whore
Nigel Barley invites you to enter the Whore of Babylon Experience, a fictional museum tour. Patchouli squirts, orgasmic commentary and multiple virgins await, not to mention your fellow visitors -...
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EU funds promote lifelong learning
The government has secured a Pounds 160 million boost from the European Social Fund to support the University for Industry and other lifelong learning proposals. David Blunkett, secretary of state...
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Life learners prepare for radical shifts
The central principle of a lifelong learning curriculum, based on knowledge and citizenship, should be a social theory of learning that runs through our lives like the message in a stick of rock. We...
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Funding council aims to boost business ties
The Higher Education Funding Council for England is planning a "third leg" of support alongside its funding of research and teaching. It wants to help institutions boost their "professional...
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Philippe Busquin: La carrière du chercheur en Europe, Conférence sur la carrière des chercheurs, Bruxelles, le 16 décembre 2002
Bruxelles, le 16 d écembre 2002 Madame la Ministre, Monsieur le Président, Mesdames et Messieurs, Je voudrais tout d'abord remercier Mme Dupuis d'avoir pris l'initiative de cette conférence consacrée...
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How to... design mix 'n' match courses
WHAT Ronald Barnett, Kelly Coate and Gareth Parry make sense of study programmes. WHY Curriculum planning is a complicated, yet necessary part of improving degree quality. HOW The undergraduate...
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The EU Archimedes prize: - Supporting the next generation of scientists
Munich, 5 December 2002 The EU Archimedes Prize - the EU's science prize for undergraduate students - was awarded today, December 5, in Munich to 20 projects carried out by young European scientists...
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Bridging cultural space big enough to test Nasa
The key to success for the GLA and London is partnership with educational institutions, says Trevor Phillips In public school novels, the boys of School House (or whatever) seldom stray off the...