EU acts to combat resistance to antibiotics
Brussels, 17 March 2006 A new scientific network is launched today, supported by the EU’s Research Framework Programme, to tackle the increasing problem of resistance to antibiotics when dealing with...
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Agenda of the COST Committee of Senior Officials (CSO), 29/30 March
Brussels, 17 Mar 2006 Full text of Document 805/1/06 Revision 01 1. Adoption of the agenda 2. Approval of Summary of Conclusions of the previous meeting (COST 330/05) Information items 3....
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Agenda of the Research Working Party, 20 March
Brussels, 17 Mar 2006 Full text of Document 1058/06 (morning) 1. Rules for participation ­ continuation of examination (Articles 37-54) doc. 6958/06 RECH 53 CODEC 218 (afternoon) 2. Specific...
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Today's news
Oxford online learning project folds An e-learning venture by Oxford University, with Yale and Stanford in the US, has folded after failing to attract enough students. A joint announcement was...
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Research Grants
Deadline: 15/06/2006
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Training fellowships in clinical tropical medicine
Deadline: 07/07/2006
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Awards in medical research and health care
Deadline: 03/07/2006
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1 in 6 admits to cheating
One in six students admits to copying from friends and one in ten confesses to looking for essays online, the most extensive poll ever conducted on student cheating in universities has revealed. The...
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Now apply in writing to go on reading list
It is a potential conflict of interest every lecturer is sensitive to. You are giving a lecture course on a topic for which your book is a leading text. Do you add the book to your students' reading...
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'Cosmology is appealing because big questions can be simply stated'
Cambridge mathematician John Barrow has been awarded the world's best-known religion prize Gazing up at the mosaic ceiling of St Mark's Basilica in Venice, John Barrow saw confirmation of his life's...
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On the move...
* The Higher Education Academy has appointed as senior associates: Michael Bradford , professor and associate vice-president at Manchester University, to work on the Change Academy and academic...
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Memo targets boycott staff
Pay row escalates as Nottingham Trent threatens to stop wages. Alan Thomson reports Attitudes hardened in the higher education pay dispute this week after managers at one university threatened to...
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Students could resort to law for breach of contract
Students may seek to sue universities if their educational or employment prospects are damaged due to the academic boycott of exams and other assessment, writes Alan Thomson. Local student union...
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Leaked papers lead to FOI ruling
The Government's freedom of information watchdog has ordered De Montfort University to disclose a series of highly sensitive internal documents about academic standards, in a landmark ruling likely...
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