Fossils forecast a global scorcher
Petrified leaves paint a scary picture of how quickly and severely our climate can change, says David Beerling The past seizes upon us with its shadowy hand and holds us to listen to its tale," wrote...
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Required reading for 1 billion students
China could be gold mine for Western publishers of learning materials, but it's not easy to enter, say Harriet Swain and Mandy Garner One day in September, 120,000 Chinese children aged between seven...
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Parallel lives
An academic and his undergraduate son at the same university offer different perspectives on an issue. This month: lectures The father The fresh start-of-term smell of floor polish in the lecture...
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I'm a postdoc - get me out
Want to tread the academic path after a PhD? Are you sure , asks Eleanor Lingham A week before I started my postdoc, I met an old friend whom I hadn't seen since my undergraduate days. He had just...
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Today's news
Protests grow over Reading physics closure More than 1,600 academics from 20 countries have signed a petition calling on the University of Reading to abandon controversial plans to close its...
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Latest research news
Educational toys 'are no better than trip to park' Aspirational parents who want to "hothouse" their children's intelligence are wasting thousands of pounds on educational toys for three and four-...
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Today's news
Dons tell of pressure on Oxford to reform Oxford came one step closer to handing control of its executive to outsiders yesterday after it emerged that the university was under serious government...
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Equine Veterinary Research
Deadline: 17/01/2007
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Today's news
Dons urged to reject reforms Desperate dons have issued a last-minute appeal to rebel academics at the University of Oxford to reject the proposal by John Hood, their Vice-Chancellor, to hand control...
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Stroke bursary
Deadline: 05/01/2007
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Clinical Research Fellowships
Deadline: 11/05/2007
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Today's news
Oxford dons ready for final battle The final phase in the battle over reforms for the University of Oxford begins tomorrow when John Hood, the Vice-Chancellor, calls on dons to approve changes to a “...
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European research news
Unfortunately Public Info has been suspended for the moment, but will be resumed as soon as possible. The full text of all important European statements, speeches and announcements on research - from...
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Open Access publishing in physics gains momentum
Brussels, 9 November 2006 Open Access publishing in physics gains momentum http:///cordis.europa.eu/fetch?CALLER=EN_ NEWS&ACTION=D&SESSION=&RCN=26629 For the first time ever, an entire...
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CORDIS workshop on disseminating European research results - Helsinki, 23 November
Brussels, 9 November 2006 CORDIS workshop on disseminating European Research Results - Helsinki, 23 November http:///cordis.europa.eu/wire/index.cfm?f useaction=article.Detail&rcn=10879 CORDIS...