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Sea change heralds big freeze A giant belt of moving water that dictates the climate of Britain and northern Europe has slowed down by 20 per cent since 1950, confirming fears that the UK could be in...
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The Guardian Labour needs to spell out its commitment to public control of public services, writes higher education minister Margaret Hodge. The high use of paracetamol in the UK and other English-...
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Britain "vulnerable to bio war"
British Association for the Advancement of Science BA president Sir William Stewart warned this week that the failure to curb the foot-and-mouth outbreak has highlighted Britain's vulnerability if...
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Nobel laureates join Toronto protest Twenty-seven internationally renowned psychiatrists and medical researchers, including Nobel laureates Julius Axelrod and Arvid Carlsson, have accused the...
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Cybersquatter surrenders Oxford name The World Intellectual Property Organisation has ruled that an ߣߣƵn cybersquatter must surrender the domain name university-of-oxford.com that he had...
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Guardian Microbiologist Stephen Dealler writes that we may soon know the size of the variant CJD (human BSE) epidemic and how to treat it. University of Surrey researchers say...
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Government plans more city academies The government wants to open up a wider debate on improving education for 14 to 19-year-olds, according to a white paper published today. Schools Achieving...
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Fujian university to share £50m boost Xiamen University, in China's eastern Fujian province, is to be transformed into a “world-class institution” as a central part of a 600 million yuan (£...
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Labour university policy denounced as failure Labour policy for higher education has failed, according to a social scientist from the London School of Economics. At the British Association Festival...
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Financial Times Schools could afford up to 70,000 more teachers by 2004 if the government goes on expanding investment in education, the centre-right Institute for Public Policy Research said...
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Brazilian court stops computer deal The Brazilian education ministry’s purchase of 233,000 Windows-programmed personal computers from Microsoft has been blocked by local magistrates after a national...
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Daily Telegraph A drug derived from the saliva of leeches can reduce the risk of a repeat heart attack by a third, according to the results of a study. The first cup of coffee of the day may wake you...
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Germ wars warning sounded Future wars could be fought with microbes rather than bombs and missiles, Sir William Stewart, president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, warned...
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EU funds PhD training at Bradford
The University of Bradford has won three EU awards for advanced training of researchers through the EU Marie Curie programme. The department of European studies and the department of archaeological...
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Retired dean will advise spin-offs
University of Bath David Davies, professor and former dean of science, who has also acted as chair of the arts committee and was co-founder and director of a research and consultancy company, will...